Bridget Phillipson has been appointed Secretary of State for Education by Sir Keir Starmer, following Labour’s victory at the general election. The appointment will see Phillipson, the MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, retain the brief she held before the election when she was the opposition counterpart to previous Education...
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The Labour Party has won the seat of Coventry North West, with incumbent MP Taiwo Owatemi holding the constituency she first won in 2019. Owatemi, who in 2019 narrowly held onto the seat with the smallest majority in its history – just 208 votes – this time increased her majority...
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The Conservative Party has won Kenilworth and Southam, with incumbent MP Jeremy Wright holding the seat despite a massive swing against him. Wright, who has represented the seat since 2005, won 19,395 votes (36.4%), a decrease of 22.6 points from his performance in 2019. His closest challengers, Labour’s Cat Price...
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The Labour Party has won the seat of Coventry East in this year’s general election, with former Labour MP Mary Creagh being elected to the constituency. Creagh, who was MP for the seat of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, from 2005 to 2019, held the seat for Labour with 18,308 votes (49.5%),...
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The Labour Party has won a landslide victory in the 2024 General Election according to exit poll figures, being projected to win 410 seats. The result, which predicts the party will more than double its seat total in the House of Commons, would net Labour a majority of 170, nine...
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As part of its coverage for the 2024 general election, The Boar offered candidates standing for the major parties in the University’s local area the opportunity to be interviewed on their policies, their platform, and their stance on student issues. One of those who accepted was Hema YellaPragada, the Green...
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Calls have been made for the Warwick Conservative Association to be disbanded after a video emerged of members singing a WWII German marching song. The footage, first reported in The Sunday Times, shows attendees of the society’s annual Chairman’s Dinner dancing to the song ‘Erika’, playing on the venue’s speakers....
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The demonstration by the student-staff group Warwick Stands With Palestine has gone on for weeks, since tents were first erected in the Piazza on 26 April. Marking the first of what would become a national wave of student encampments across UK universities, demonstrators have called on the University of Warwick’s...
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There are fears of a potential collapse in higher education, after a report by the Office for Students (OfS) warned that 40% of English universities are now running deficits. In a report published 16 May, the education watchdog voiced concerns that an overreliance on international students to plug funding shortfalls...
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Journalists from The Boar are amongst those who have been honoured at the annual Student Publication Association (SPA) National Awards. Writers Zoé Barret, Eden Fall-Bailey, Archie Clarke, and Luke Chapman, secured three awards between them. Barret won the accolade for Best Creative Piece, for her poem ‘Greetings and Goodbye’. She said...
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Activists from the protest group Warwick Stands With Palestine have occupied the WMG Digital Laboratory, in a dramatic escalation of their demonstration. In the early hours of the morning, a group of masked demonstrators entered the International Digital Laboratory, a building on campus belonging to the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)....
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The United Kingdom will face an unexpected summer general election, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called one for 4 July, in an audacious bid to retain power against the odds. At 5pm on Wednesday 22 May, Mr Sunak announced that he had sought the King’s permission to dissolve Parliament, triggering...
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The Council of the University of Warwick has dismissed demands by student protestors for the ‘demilitarisation’ of campus, following a meeting on Wednesday. In a statement, the Council rejected claims by demonstrators that the University had direct ties to the war in Gaza, asserting that whilst it holds agreements with...
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