Fast forward to December and the party, now known as ‘The Independent Group for Change”, is only fielding three candidates for the forthcoming general election

Politics has turned nasty. Not on the streets, it has been that way for a while, but towards the media. Where it used to be brutal behind the scenes, now it is all out in the open.

After Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn faced off on Tuesday night, the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Brexit Party and Greens were given airtime to speak to the nation.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn went head-to-head earlier tonight.

For the first time since 2015 the Conservative Party and Labour Party leaders will lock horns in a live TV debate. Follow the latest developments here…

Leigh has been a Labour held constituency for almost a century. Jo Platt won the seat in 2017 with a 20% majority over her nearest competitor James Grundy of the Conservative Party.

Conservative Mary Robinson held the seat in the 2017 election but with only a slim 8.3% majority that the Liberal Democrat candidate will be looking to overturn come December.

Labour’s Lucy Powell won the Manchester Central seat in 2017 with a huge 63.2% majority. Powell earned 77.4% of the votes, over 30,000 more than closest competitors the Conservative party.

The first Saturday sitting of Parliament since the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982 was dubbed ‘Super Saturday’ as it ended in defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The North of England is not a priority for the Conservatives according to Dominic Grieve, as he addressed a packed conference room in Manchester last night.

On 16 August 1819, more than 60,000 people gathered in St Peter’s Field to attend a meeting calling for parliamentary reform.