TikTok is launching a media literacy hub to help its users recognise fake news and misinformation online ahead of the General Election. The social media giant said the hub had been created alongside fact-checking organisation Logically Facts. The new in-app space will focus on critical thinking and news literacy, TikTokContinue Reading
Rishi Sunak has said he could take drivers’ licences and bank accounts off 18-year-olds if they refuse to take part in his mandatory national service. The prime minister has so far failed to say how he will force young people to participate in the scheme, which would see them volunteerContinue Reading
Gove labels insider election betting ‘reprehensible’ as second Tory candidate investigated Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has been rocked by an election betting scandal after a Conservative candidate and her husbandContinue Reading
Rishi Sunak has been hit with another blow after a major new survey suggested that voters now prefer Nigel Farage than “a Conservative leader” to be leader of the opposition to Labour. The same survey by Redfield and Wilton shows that 50 percent think it was wrong to exclude MrContinue Reading
Sunak branded ‘pound shop Nigel Farage’ during live radio interview Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Conservative candidate is being investigated by the Gambling Commission over a bet relating to the timing ofContinue Reading
Artificial intelligence will allow pupils to continue conversing with Holocaust survivors even when they are no longer alive. The technology for schools in the UK will aim to “immortalise” real Holocaust survivors and their stories through life-like conversations with pupils. The programme has been launched at a time when antisemitismContinue Reading
A Tory advert suggesting dictators are looking forward to a Labour government has been branded “shameful and demeaning” by the former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Crossbench peer Lord Carlile said the Conservatives “should be ashamed of themselves” for publishing a photoshopped image of Sir Keir Starmer being cheered onContinue Reading
A number of top Tory ministers are set to lose their seats in the upcoming general election as the Conservative’s faltering campaign grinds on, according to a new shock poll. In devastating news for prime minister Rishi Sunak, YouGov’s poll has predicted 14 Tory big beasts are set to loseContinue Reading
The Conservatives are facing a historic defeat at the election after a bombshell new poll suggested the party could be left with just 53 MPs – and Rishi Sunak would not be among them. Adding further misery to a raft of dire poll results for Mr Sunak, it also predictsContinue Reading
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said Reform UK’s manifesto is a “whole load of nice-sounding pledges” that don’t add up – then joked the right-wing party had taken his “best policies”. The Brexiteer is facing a battle for his political future in North East Somerset and Hanham where regional mayor Dan NorrisContinue Reading
