UK party leaders in full on General Election mode

With all the political parties of the UK gearing up for a General Election on 12th December and in full on campaign mode, we take a look at some of the recent goings on across the country and what the EU are saying.

Leaders of the Labour Party, Conservatives and Lib Dems have been travelling the length and breadth of the country making promises in exchange for support, but with very mixed reactions.

Boris Johnson was met with some angry confrontations when he arrived in a flood-stricken Yorkshire town and also had to cancel a visit to a bakery when police advised him to do so because of the presence of 150 protestors from Extinction Rebellion.

Jeremy Corbyn made a brief visit to Scotland where he spoke to a hall full of the party faithful in Edinburgh, which also witnessed some protests with activists projecting messages on the outside of the building and one man heckling him inside the hall only to be escorted out by officials.

Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson has also been travelling the country and continues to re-iterate that she will not support a Labour government, leading to many taking the view that she would likely not rule out another Conservative/Lib Dem coalition. Swinson was reported to have had her “Milliband Bacon Sandwich moment” when she was filmed awkwardly eating a marshmallow.

Nigel Farage has been wrangling with which seats his Brexit Party would contend as he appears to have made some sort of pact with the Conservatives, where the party will not put candidates forward in Conservative marginals, but has ruled out holding back in Labour marginal seats, despite influencial supporter Arron Banks’ attempts to persuade him otherwise.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, the SNP appear to continue to have very strong support according to polls and recent by-elections in which they gained two new councillors. Nicola Sturgeon has suggested that in the right set of circumstances the party could be willing to support a Labour government as long as that government were in agreement to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.