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BORIS Johnson's position on terror has been backed by voters after he called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release following the London Bridge attack. The Prime Minister has since been seen getting his hands dirty, as he changed the wheel of a Formula One race car during a Conservative Party general election campaign visit to Red Bull Racing in Milton Keynes today. Follow our General Election 2019 live blog below for all the latest updates and news... Alexander Brown4 minutes ago5th December 2019KHAN'T BELIEVE IT Sadiq Khan has defended Jeremy Corbyn from accusations of anti-Semitism. Appearing on LBC, he said: “Jeremy Corbyn has spent his entire life as an anti-racist campaigner. “That should include, and does include, anti-Semitism.” Natasha Clark17 minutes ago5th December 2019WHAT ARE THE ODDS? William Hill have trimmed the price of a Conservative majority from 4/9 to 2/5 as money continues to come in, the biggest bet of which is £10,000. … [Read more...] about General Election 2019 LIVE: Latest polls show voters back Boris Johnson as Prime Minister fires up Election race

German politicians have criticised the former London mayor Boris Johnson for claiming the EU has the same goal as Hitler in trying to create a political superstate. “Anyone who allows himself to stoop to such polemics shows that they are running out of proper arguments”, said Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesman for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. “If we look at the cultural life and the way business is done on the continent, it is clear that Europe has never been more British than it is now. We want things to remain that way – with Britain inside the EU,” Hardt said. Johnson’s remark that the EU was an attempt to recreate Hitler’s and Napoleon’s aims of unifying Europe “by different methods” was widely reported in German media on Monday. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Johnson, seen as the de facto leader of the leave campaign, said the past 2,000 years of European history had been dominated … [Read more...] about German politicians criticise Boris Johnson for EU-Hitler comments

Boris Johnson does not seem to understand the difference between fact and fiction, Chris Patten, the former Conservative party chairman, has said. Lord Patten told BBC Newsnight on Friday that Johnson made up stories and repeatedly changed his mind, and that after the EU referendum he needed to be tested in a “proper” cabinet job so that people could establish “whether there is something behind all the jokes”. Johnson, the Conservative MP and former mayor of London, has faced a barrage of criticism since he started acting as the lead campaigner for Vote Leave. It has focused on the accuracy and appropriateness of his comments about the EU, but in some respects Patten’s comments are the strongest yet from a fellow Tory, because he depicted Johnson as untrustworthy. Patten said: “Boris just makes it up as he goes along, and you come across people like that. There’s a sense in which you can’t call Boris a liar. I think he’s one of … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson ‘does not know fact from fiction’, says Chris Patten

Iain Duncan Smith has backed Boris Johnson’s claim that the EU has the same goal as Hitler in trying to create a political superstate, despite the remain camp branding the comments “offensive and desperate”. The former mayor of London drew criticism on Saturday after making the link between the EU and the Nazi dictator in a newspaper interview. While he acknowledged the EU was using “different methods” to the Nazis, his incendiary comparison quickly enraged remain campaigners. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Johnson, seen as the de facto leader of the leave campaign, said the past 2,000 years of European history had been dominated by doomed attempts to unify the continent under a single government to recreate the “golden age” of the Romans. “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” he said. “But fundamentally, what is lacking is … [Read more...] about Iain Duncan Smith backs Boris Johnson over EU-Hitler link

For those of us involved with the Learning Together community, the deaths of our friends and colleagues Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones have been hard to bear. This has been made even harder by our sense that – amid the cynical politicking, against the wishes of Jack’s family – the values that Learning Together stands for are being overlooked. Friday’s attack was reported as an incident of indiscriminate terrorism. But it was perpetrated at a Learning Together conference. The victims worked for Learning Together. It was an assault on the whole idea of prisoner rehabilitation – an attack on education, and the hope for self-betterment that it inspires. Kneejerk calls to “lock them up and throw away the key” by rightwing newspapers and politicians end up reinforcing one of the aims of Usman Khan’s violence. Formed in 2014, Learning Together has since grown to involve 600 university and prison students during this year alone. The idea of it is … [Read more...] about The London Bridge attack was an assault on the ideas of hope and rehabilitation