News about Tim Montgomerie

Earlier today, the Prime Minister suffered the indignity of seeing of seeing a Labour mayor win in his own constituency as the party hemorrhaged councils and seats. The Conservatives lost Gloucester, which they had previously held for 20 years, and Dorset to the Liberal Democrats . Lord Ben Houchen's re-election on Teesside was a crumb of comfort as the party lost more than half of its councillors up for re-election across England, just months away from a general election. Labour's David Skaith became the inaugural elected mayor of York and North Yorkshire this afternoon, a new position that covers the Prime Minister's Richmond constituency. It was one of the final blows in a day of reverses for the ruling party, including in many areas the Tories need to win to have any chance in the general election later this year. All eyes now turn to mayoral contests in London and the West Midlands, the results of which will be declared on Saturday.

Following the Laurence Fox controversy, Reverend Calvin Robinson (left) posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he had been barred from GB News. Fox was suspended from the channel after he made a series of remarks on the programme about political correspondent Ava Evans, which included asking 'who would want to s**g that?' On Tuesday, the university released a tweet on Tuesday. Angelos Frangopoulos, the GB News boss, apologized to Ms Evans for remarks that said, "should not have gone to air" and should have been "properly chastised" on Friday morning.