by Whitehouse Communications | 17 Dec 2021 | Brexit, Local Government, Politics, Tory Leadership, Whitehouse News
Lib Dem candidate Helen Morgan won yesterday’s North Shropshire by-election, rounding off a damaging few weeks for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Morgan won 17,957 votes, ahead of the Conservatives’ Neil Shastri-Hurst, on 12,032 – an astonishing new majority of 5,925....
by Whitehouse Communications | 18 May 2021 | Communications, Education & Children's Services, Environment, European Union, Local Government, Politics, PR and Media Relations, Public Sector, Tory Leadership, Whitehouse News
“Don’t extrapolate too much from the Isle of Wight local election results.” So warns Whitehouse Communications Chair, Chris Whitehouse, writing on influential political blog site, Conservative Home. “Despite the Conservatives’ loss of overall...
by Chris Rogers | 11 Aug 2017 | European Union
The Colour of Money The week began with a report that the UK was willing to pay a £36 billion Brexit ‘divorce bill’, providing that the EU is willing to negotiate the settlement as part of a wider deal on trade. The apparent offer is an attempt to break the deadlock...
by Chris Rogers | 14 Jul 2017 | European Union
A friendly hand Theresa May definitely didn’t relaunch her premiership this week. She merely made a heavily-advertised speech that marked a sharp change in direction from what came before. Mrs May called on Tuesday for cross-party co-operation on a range of issues,...
by Chris Rogers | 19 May 2017 | Economy, European Union, Politics
Manifesto mania For avid political readers, this week must have been manna from heaven with the publication of not one, not two, but three manifestos ahead of the UK general election on 8 June. After the brilliant/calamitous (delete as appropriate) leak of the Labour...
