American pollster and statistician Nate Silver has admitted he has “no idea” who will be in power after the general election. Appearing on BBC One’s Panorama show last night, Silver there was “enormous uncertainty” over the outcome of the UK
The Conservatives have taken the lead in two polls today, with Lord Ashcroft putting them six points ahead and an ICM poll for the Guardian giving them a three-point lead. Ashcroft puts the Conservatives on 36 percent (up two), Labour
The earthquake that ripped through Nepal early on Saturday morning has now claimed more than 3,200 lives, with aftershocks triggering a second avalanche on Mouth Everest. The UK’s foreign office has confirmed there are no reports of Britons being injured
Ed Miliband has pledged to make Islamophobia a criminal offence in the UK if he becomes Prime Minister. In an interview with the Muslim News website, Miliband said a Labour government would make Islamophobia an “aggravated crime”. “We are going
The acting mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets has appeared to blame the vote-rigging scandal that brought down Lutfur Rahman on “institutional racism”. Oliur Rahman – no relation to Lutfur – told the BBC there was deep-seated racism
UKIP is set to take the seat of Thurrock from the Conservatives at next month’s general election as a new poll puts the party four points ahead of Labour, with the Tories in third place. The latest Lord Ashcroft polling
James May has confirmed he has quit Top Gear just weeks after fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for hitting a producer. May left the long-running motor show when his contract expired last month, but has only now gone public
The M74 motorway in Scotland suffered delays following reports of a dog “taking control of a tractor”. It emerged that a sheepdog called Don had leaned on the controls of a tractor, sending it onto the road. Police later recovered
Police have released the first images from inside the vault raided in the Hatton Garden jewel heist, showing the chaotic scenes left behind. Thieves raided the vault over the Easter weekend earlier this month and broke into 72 deposit boxes,
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has been accused of secretly editing Wikipedia to promote himself and add unflattering details about his rivals. Shapps is alleged to have been behind the account Contribsx, which has continually deleted embarrassing information about the
The backlash against Britain’s top prosecutor is growing after she decided that Labour peer Lord Janner will not face charges of child abuse due to poor health. Janner stands accused 22 offences against nine victims, but Director of Public Prosecutions
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett faces fresh embarrassment after it emerged her boyfriend ran a blog in which he defended “rape fantasies”, described paedophiles as “complex human beings” and said he was “ambivalent” about whether it is wrong for teachers
Support for the Green Party among students has fallen dramatically since the start of the election campaign, a new poll suggests. The survey of 1,000 full-time students by YouthSight found the Greens’ support on campuses across Britain has fallen from
The Scottish National Party has threatened to hold Britain’s armed forces to ransom by potentially blocking the military budget if it ends up propping up a Labour government after the general election. Stewart Hosie, SNP deputy leader, said yesterday that
Jim Murphy, the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, is trailing the Scottish National Party (SNP) by nine points in his seat of East Renfrewshire, according to new polling by Lord Ashcroft. In a poll of voting intentions in
The leader of Spain’s Socialist Party has been compared to Homer Simpson after accidentally voting in favour of an anti-abortion law he had strongly opposed. Pedro Sánchez voted for the law, which requires girls under the age of 18 to
Despite their party’s professed love for the environment and hatred of CO2 emissions, Green Party supporters are most likely to book a long-haul holiday, according to a new poll. The survey by website Travelzoo also found that Green supporters were
Britain is paying aid staff up to £1,000 a day in order to meet the government’s spending targets on foreign aid. Spending on outside ‘consultants’ has risen to £1.4bn in the past four years, taking up more than 10 per
Liverpool Football Club is to ‘take action’ against a fan who tweeted a picture of two Muslim men praying at a Premier League stadium with the hashtag ‘#disgrace’. Stephen Dodd tweeted the image with the caption: “Muslims praying at half-time
Home-sick European jihadists have been sneaking junk food such as Burger King, Oreos and Pringles across the Turkish border into Syria to satisfy their desperate cravings for Western food. The terrorists have been posting images of the food on Twitter,
All internet pornography faces a ban in Russia after a court in the Tatarstan region ordered the country’s state-controlled internet watchdog to block 136 websites hosting “pornographic material”, citing laws drawn up in 1910 and 1923. The court ordered the
Britain is to extradite a Basque terrorist accused of murdering 22 people to face justice in Spain. A judge ruled on Tuesday that Antonio Troitiño, who spent 24 years in Spanish prisons, should be sent back to the country. Troitiño
The thieves who stole millions of pounds worth of jewellery from safety deposit building in London may have been inspired by 1990s crime novel, analysts have said. The Times reports that Criminologist Richard Hoskins said there were “curious and numerous”
The number of exorcists in England is growing following a rise in demonic possession, the Times reports. A priest who is one of four Britons to attend an exorcism course in Rome said that most Catholic dioceses in England now
UK authorities are to investigate up to 50 schools set by extremists for being “anti-British”. Many of these schools were started by a teacher who was embroiled in the “Trojan Horse” scandal last year, where Islamist extremists reportedly tried to
