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UK election spending
The data comes from here. UKIP did the best for votes per pound spent and the Lib Dems the worst. Conservatives and Labour fairly close to each other. In terms of spending per seats won the SNP did...
View ArticleThe UK EU deal
The Telegraph reports: Cabinet ministers are threatening to defy David Cameron by publicly speaking out against his deal with the European Union, which they are warning will fail to cut migration. The...
View ArticleThe final UK-EU deal
The final deal has been struck and the UK goes to the polls on 23 June to vote on whether to remain in the EU or leave it. Details are: An emergency brake on EU migrants claiming in-work benefits. This...
View ArticleBoris backs Brexit
Stuff reports: A new battle for Britain has erupted with London Mayor Boris Johnson saying he would join the campaign to encourage Britain to leave the European Union. The move on Sunday (Monday, NZT)...
View ArticleUK health charges
Stuff reports: The Government looks prepared to accept a move from the United Kingdom Government to charge ex-pat New Zealanders a healthcare surcharge on every visa application. The UK Government has...
View ArticleA by-election only three people can vote in
Buzzfeed reports: On 19 April possibly the strangest democratic election to any legislature in the world will take place, with seven candidates competing for the votes of three people for one place in...
View ArticleThe cost of Brexit
The Guardian reports: George Osborne has said the British government would lose £36bn in net tax receipts, equivalent to 8p on the basic rate of income tax or 7p on VAT, if the UK leaves the EU and...
View ArticleCameron resigns as UK PM
The Telegraph reports: David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the...
View ArticleWhy Brexit won
It was amazing watching the results come in and as the small lead for Brexit remained and then started to grow, to realise that the peoples of the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union....
View ArticleHow the UK voted by area
Here’s how the 12 regions voted in order of support for Leave: West Midlands 59.2% East Midlands 58.5% North East 58.0% Yorkshire & Humber 57.7% Eastern 56.5% North West 53.7% South West 52.6%...
View ArticleBrexit is March 2019
Stuff reports: British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would trigger the process to leave the EU by the end of March, offering the first glimpse of a timetable for a divorce that will...
View ArticleThe two key UK issues for Brexit
The Guardian reports: Theresa May has given her strongest indication yet that the UK’s exit from the EU will lean towards a “hard Brexit”, suggesting that regaining control of immigration was more...
View ArticleNZ may be first to sign FTA with UK
The Telegraph reports: She added: “Countries including Canada, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea have already told us they would welcome talks on future free trade agreements. And we...
View ArticleSir Jerry to London
Stuff reports: Former Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae has been appointed the next High Commissioner to the UK. Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced the appointment of the lieutenant on...
View ArticleManchester weeps
The Telegraph reports: A father has described seeing “carnage everywhere” in the wake of an explosion at Manchester Arena that left around 30 people, including children and disabled victims, lying on...
View Article12 dead in London fire
12 people to date are confirmed dead in the Grenfell Tower fire. A terrible way to die – trapped in a towering inferno. There’s no information to date on how the fire started, let alone how it spread...
View ArticleKiwi to be UK Chief Trade Adviser
Stuff reports: Britain has appointed a former New Zealand trade negotiator, Crawford Falconer, as its chief adviser on trade talks, just days before exit talks with the European Union are due to begin....
View ArticleTerror strikes again in London
Another terrible attack in London with an attacker plowing a van into a crowd. The attack was outside the Muslim Welfare House, and many of those hit were Muslim, it seems. One attacker appears to have...
View ArticlePutin’s man in Wellington delivers again
Richard Harman writes at Politik: In a week which has already seen Winston Peters and New Zealand First go it alone on refugee policy, Peters surprised western diplomats in Wellington yesterday with a...
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