Cigarette sales in Australia have increased since the introduction of plain packaging, according to the Australian. The increase has come from budget brands that are no longer identifiable as being cheaper due to their packaging. Total sales in the first
Conservatives held Newark in Thursday’s by-election with 17,431 votes, UKIP were in second place with 10,028. The Liberal Democrats sank from second in the 2010 General Election to sixth, behind Labour, the Greens and an independent. Whilst the result was
A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been appointed to the Conservative frontbench at Croydon Council. According to the Croydon Advertiser Cllr Maria Gatland was appointed as spokesman for children, families and learning despite having to quit the
Despite losses in Britain and Poland, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) look set to become the third largest group at the European Parliament. Created by the British Conservative Party in the last parliamentary term it had been derided as
The Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps looks likely to stay on at the reshuffle after his plans for grassroots campaigning finally came good. Shapps had looked vulnerable because his Team2015 grassroots campaign had struggled to make an impact on the
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been blamed for sabotaging a set of raids against illegal immigrants by passing intelligence about them to a left-wing campaign group. Whitehall sources told the Daily Mail that a meticulously planned operation had been potentially
A drug dealer who was carrying a “football-sized block of cannabis” has won the right to sue the government because of a European Union law on motor insurance. Sean Delaney was seriously injured in a motoring accident but because drugs
Today’s Queen’s speech is expected to include the right of members of the public to recall their Member of Parliament, Breitbart London has learned.. The legislation comes after a campaign by Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and the campaign group 38
Despite being far less formal than the UK’s House of Windsor, the House of Bourbon which rules Spain has had its fair share of allegations of being ‘out of touch’. An aged King presiding over a virtually bankrupt state whilst
Liberal Democrats MPs have rebelled against their leadership more times than the other two main parties in British politics, and they’re hard to beat seeing as every one of their backbenchers has rebelled at some point this parliament. Overall, seven
Concerns about the infiltration of Birmingham schools by the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have existed around for at least two decades. According to Sky News, concerned school governors wrote to the government in 1994 to warn them of the problem.
The European Commission has called for the British government to reband properties and increase council taxes. The call was amongst the Commission’s 2014 economic policy recommendations, which also said the government should use the higher tax revenue to cut the
The Conservatives are expected to win the Newark by-election on Thursday despite recent UKIP successes and surge in popularity. The poll conducted by Tory donor Lord Ashcroft suggests Robert Jenrick will hold the seat for the Conservatives with 42 percent
Grant Shapps may be replaced as Conservative Party Chairman according to the Independent. The paper has suggested that he may be replaced by Eric Pickles, a well-regarded former chairman. Mr Pickles is currently Secretary of State for Communities and Local
An advert for the high-end jewellers Chaumet has had an advert taken off public display in France. According to the Local the advert,which appears to show the moments before a lesbian kiss, has been is based on the Greek myth of
British TV personality Jimmy Savile sexually abused children as young as two during his decades of sex offending, he also had at least 500 victims, an NSPCC study has concluded. Most of his victims were girls aged 13 – 15
The mother of a 24-year-old Muslim convert from Buckinghamshire, UK fears that her son will kill innocent people after he travelled to Somalia to join the terrorist group Al Shabaab. Sally Evans says she would rather see him sent to
An official petition to add Muslim and Hindu festivals to British bank (public) holidays has attracted over 100,000 signatures, meaning that it can now be debated at the House of Commons. If the proposal is passed it will put days
UKIP has announced plans to target all six seats in Worcestershire at the General Election next year, adding the electoral category of “Worcester Woman” to their list of electoral targets. Psephologists talk about Worcester Women’s significance as the group represents
Police in Bristol have evacuated hundreds of local residents and carried out several controlled explosions following fears that a car bomb may have been planted in the city. Earlier today the Bristol Post reported that residents in the Fishponds area of
A former Labour Home Secretary has once again called for action to restore order in the Page Hall district of Sheffield which has been the scene of rising tensions ever since large numbers of Roma moved to the area. The
A 63-year-old the Daily Mail brands as “Britain’s Most Prolific Complainer” has finally been banned from contacting his local council, but only after he sent them 10,000 complaints over a missed bin collection in 1988. Steve Bradbury was unhappy with
Former UKIP councillor Dave Small is facing calls to resign from his seat and face re-election after allegedly calling African migrants ‘scroungers’ and Clare Balding and Sir Elton John ‘perverts’, according to the Redditch Standard. The Conservatives and Labour leaders
