Boris Johnson and the Tories have a 10 point poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party with the general election now just one week away.

Boris Johnson and the Tories' lead over Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party has narrowed to just six points with the general election three days away.

These are 40 seats which the Conservatives are best-placed to take from Labour - and where Brexit Party voters should switch their allegiance to the Tories, or face a Marxist UK prime minister.

The Conservatives have taken the Workington seat from a Labour in a huge swing, managing to overturn a 3,000 majority to triumph by a stunning 4,000 votes. 

The Tories put into place a tight-knit team featuring a mixture of old-school campaigners and younger upstarts skilled in the dark arts of social media. The result was the electoral equivalent of a bludgeon.

PETER HITCHENS: Well, hurrah. After almost a decade of fooling around, chaos, waste and confusion, we have finally saved the Tory Party from richly deserved doom.

Boris is celebrating this morning as the most powerful Conservative Prime Minister since Thatcher - but for years it looked like his complicated personal life could derail his vaunting ambition.

Measures to ensure that 'minimum service levels' are maintained during rail strikes are included in the Queen's Speech.

It is understood Assembly Member Nick Ramsay was arrested last night at his home in Raglan, Usk, Monmouthshire.

Brexiteers across the UK can get their hands on the items for as little as £5. The products have made available on the Tory party's website. The 'I got Brexit Done' mug is pictured.

Andrea Leadsom, who has twice run for the Tory party leadership and has held a variety of Cabinet posts, took her team of advisers for a champagne lunch at a Westminster hotel after her dismissal.

Priti Patel is said to have tried to move permanent secretary Sir Philip Rutnam out of the department after they clashed.

A top official working in police oversight transferred to the Department of Transport and a member of the Home Secretary's private office left their post in recent weeks

Carrie Symonds is backing ministers who say Dominic Cummings' aggressive approach is damaging, sources say. Insiders fear Mr Johnson is in danger of being caught in a damaging power struggle.

The adverts, which include deliberate errors, are designed to be mocked online so that people share them and spread the 'stay at home' message.

Emily Ratajkowski has branded 2019 'the hardest year of her life' yet admitted '2020 is giving it a run for its money'

Hairdresser and former model Tonie Bond (pictured ) has won more than £20,000 after being ordered by her boss to pick up dog mess from the salon car park when they found out she was Muslim

Australia is set to experience the 'biggest contraction' in national output and income since the Great Depression as it grapples with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The performance comes less than five months after she broke her arm before she was set to perform on Dancing with the Stars, her other daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook filling in for her.

Researchers from the University of Nottingham and British Geological Survey analysed samples taken from Bowland in Lancashire to make the finding.

BLACK DOG: As he prepares to emerge from his shepherd's hut and break his silence on Brexit with the publication of his delayed memoirs, David Cameron can expect some flak.

ANDREW PIERCE: Hundreds of signed copies of David Cameron's autobiography For The Record are on sale at the Tory conference in Manchester - at a discounted price.

Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith's son Danny Kruger is in the running to be handed a Tory safe seat in Wiltshire at the general election.

Sajid Javid was locked in a furious row with the head of the civil service last night after he blocked plans to publish official costings for Labour's 'eye-watering' election pledges.

Former Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith - the self-declared 'quiet man' of politics - receives a knighthood. He has been regarded as the 'architect' of universal credit.

Dr Tim Leunig holds an unusually powerful position in Whitehall, with footholds in the departments of Education, the Environment and the Treasury.

HARRY COLE: David Cameron's motley list of recipients of gongs, lordships and baubles still haunts his premiership.

Beauty pro Frankie Boyd revealed that he used skincare from The Inkey List in order to 'hydrate and prep' Scarlett's skin for the award ceremony.

PETER OBORNE:  If Johnson is to regain his poise, he needs a new set of advisers. He's lost four consecutive Commons votes and failed to secure a general election losing control of parliament.

David Cameron writes in his memoirs that Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured together at a Brussels summit in 2016) was a 'European integrationist to the core'.

Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign from her position at the weekend, looked unhappy as she watched the president during his speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening.

Tulsi Gabbard, who serves in Hawaii's National Guard, is taking two weeks off the campaign trail to participate in a training exercise as her presidential bid struggles to gain momentum. 

Last month, E! revealed that Courtney Act will front a pioneering dating show aimed at bisexual+ people called The Bi Life. And on Sunday, the first trailer was released - promising a colourfully raunchy series.

Jess Impiazzi showed off her flair for fashion as she cut a stylish figure as she enjoyed a night out on Friday at the Neighbourhood bar in Manchester.

Jessie J appeared in high spirits as she headed to a flea market with her male pal in Los Angeles on Sunday.

In the ongoing battle for heavyweight boxing supremacy between Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder the former has something the others do not - an unbeaten professional career.

Pundits declared Bernie Sanders as the winner of the Dem debate on Tuesday. Joe Biden also earned himself a win in Charleston, South Carolina ahead of the primary on Saturday.

Joe Biden joked at a fundraiser in California Wednesday night that he doesn't need Secret Service protection on the campaign trail because his wife, Jill, is able to do the job.

At a dramatic press conference in Downing Street, the PM set out the need for 'drastic action' to tackle the 'fast growth' of the virus across the UK as increased social distancing measures are introduced.

Stephen Graham has revealed he was set to join the star-studded cast of Peaky Blinders before the COVID-19 pandemic brought filming to a standstill.  

The president fired Bolton following clashes over U.S. policy in Iran, Russia and Afghanistan. But it was his advocacy in April of a 'Libya model' for dealing with North Korea was the final straw.

Benjamin Hoyle, 35, flew into a sweary rant when he was prevented from flying from Manchester after sinking multiple beers and draining a bottle of Captain Morgan's rum from duty free.

General David Petraeus, who led coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, will say it is appalling that troops who served in Northern Ireland remain exposed to the risk of prosecution decades on.

Army Colonel Kathryn Spletstoser filed a lawsuit against Air Force General John Hyten for allegedly sexually assaulting her in 2017 on November 25 in California, seeking punitive damages and a jury trial.

Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Hopper of the Nevada Army National Guard is serving in Afghanistan and has received a uniform religious exception to sport a beard based upon his Norse pagan beliefs.

Derek Hunt, whose son Nathan was deployed with Prince Harry to Afghanistan and later took his own life after suffering PTSD, said many in the Armed Forces were feeling let down.

LORD ASHCROFT: The pandemic has underlined just how much people in this country love the NHS and how ready they are to support the service in its hour of need.

Joan Glen, 61, from Cheshire, who served as a nurse in Afghanistan in 2007 is now doing gruelling 12-hour shifts in full PPE equipment as a theatre nurse treating Covid-19 patients.

A top Australian stylist has revealed why taking celebrity photos to a hair appointment is a bad idea. He says having a few photos can work as a guide, but to remember stylists aren't 'magicians'.

She's the two-time Oscar-winner widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and film actresses of her generation.