Ollie Corfe

4 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Ollie Corfe

The ‘anti-Trump bump’ has lifted the Left – but Farage shouldn’t be worriedPushback against Donald Trump has ushered in Left-wing politicians in Canada and AustraliaLeft-wing politicians have swept into power in both Australia and Canada on a wave of anti-Trump sentiment. The instability wrought by the US president’s trade war against traditional allies helped Canada’s Liberals pull off a stunning comeback. And Australia’s Labor Party won its largest share of legislative seats since 1987.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Ollie Corfe

Left-wing incumbents have ridden a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to return to power. The instability wrought by Donald Trump’s trade war over the past month helped Canada’s Liberals pull off a stunning comeback, while Australia’s Labor Party won its largest share of legislative seats since 1987. Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Trumpian leader of the Conservative Party, and Peter Dutton, Australia’s Right-wing firebrand, went into their respective votes as favourites.

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ollie Corfe

A poll by YouGov for Australia's Q&A programme found that seven in 10 Australians were concerned Mr Trump would make them poorer. Some 55 per cent thought Mr Albanese would be best equipped to look after Australia's interests when it came to dealings with Mr Trump's US, compared to 45 per cent who nominated Mr Dutton. The opposition leader, who had called Mr Trump a "big thinker" and lauded his "art of the deal" negotiation tactics was left high and dry.

1 week ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Ollie Corfe

How middle class is your street? Is it perfectly posh – or ripe for gentrification? Enter your postcode to find out how middle class your street is. Class is hard to define, but education, jobs and income play a big role. So let’s take a look at your neighbours. The percentage of university graduates in an area gives some indication of the kind of people you might find there, as does your neighbours’ seniority at work.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Ollie Corfe

Eight charts that show the scale of Reform’s victoryThese local elections will go down in history as the day the Conservatives became a third party. Just 15 per cent of the vote went to the Tories, by far their worst result, having previously only dropped as low as 25 per cent in 1995. Not one legacy party secured above 20 per cent, with Labour on 20 per cent – landing closer to the Lib Dems than Reform. Reform has now become the party to beat with 30 per cent of the national vote share.