The former editor of ConservativeHome.com has called on Conservatives not to decide how they vote next year based on David Cameron’s leadership, as the party is likely to change leader soon after. Tim Montgomerie said voters should “forget presidential-style politics
The Conservatives are financially preparing for two General Elections in 2015, as the polls show neither major party will get an overall majority. Party officials have privately confirmed they preparing for a second full campaign because of fears neither off the
David Cameron’s battle to renegotiate Britian’s relationship with the European Union has hit another stumbling block ahead of today’s Council meeting in Brussels. French President Francois Holland will tell Mr Cameron that he is “obsessed with his own problems”, the
The Church of England has announced that its first female Bishop will be Rev Libby Lane, a parish priest from Hale, Greater Manchester and mother of two. She has been appointed as the new Bishop of Stockport just one month
The Green party has polled two points ahead of the Liberal Democrats in a national poll on general election voting intentions. The latest YouGov poll for The Sun puts the Green party on 8 percent, and the Liberal Democrats on
(Inform) Britain faces the threat of a Sydney-style ‘lone wolf’ attack at any moment, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, after a 16-hour siege at a cafe in the Australian city in which two captives were killed. Britain raised
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When word of an EU ban on high-power vacuum cleaners hit Eurosceptic British tabloids in August, “Hoovergate” brought home a dilemma for the bloc that goes well beyond house-proud devotees of deep-pile English carpet. Now, fear of
Over four in ten voters want Britain to leave the European Union, a survey showed on Monday. If a referendum was held immediately, 42 percent of Britons would support leaving the EU, compared to 31 percent who would opt to
A shock poll has placed Ukip to the left of the Conservative Party for the first time. The results will make unwelcome reading at Conservative Party HQ, as they are banking on capturing the centre ground as a means to
A parliamentary committee investigating possible British links to torture will request access to blacked out parts of a US Senate report on CIA treatment of Al-Qaeda suspects, its chairman said Sunday. The news comes amid growing questions in Britain about
All hail Jean-Claude Juncker, the man who would be King of Europe. Or already is, depending on your interpretation of the divine rights of monarchs and the gift of absolute power. On Thursday the European Commission president warned the UK
LONDON (Reuters) – A group of senior British lawmakers said on Wednesday that China’s refusal to allow them to visit Hong Kong was an insult and called on the government to formally summon China’s ambassador over the issue. Last month,
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron wants a deal to end political deadlock in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government over budget cuts this week, he said on Thursday. Britain called all-party talks nine weeks ago aimed at breaking the
Adults who trawl the internet to ask children to take explicit photos of themselves will face two years in prison, David Cameron has announced today. Speaking at a conference into child abuse he said the new Serious Crime Bill would
Conservatives are manoeuvring themselves into a four party deal that could see David Cameron remaining as Prime Minister even if he loses the election. According to sources at Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, senior Conservatives are trying to keep a
LONDON (Reuters) – A prominent female member of Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) has accused its general secretary of sexual harassment five months before a national election, prompting the party to suspend him pending an investigation. The imbroglio is
Two million Conservatives voters are set to switch to the UK Independence Party at the next election, according to a new survey of 30,000 voters. It found that one in five of the 10 million who voted Tory in 2010
Claridge’s is one of London’s finest five-star hotels, popular with royals and aristocrats, film stars and rock stars. But if you’d tried taking afternoon tea there over the weekend, you would have had to run the gauntlet of a rather
An insurgent party confounding its critics and rising inexorably in the polls. An established party finding its core vote disillusioned and flirting with a more hardline, principled alternative. A renegade, sometimes controversial leader whose ideas are seen by many as
LONDON (Reuters) – The two parties in Britain’s governing coalition clashed on Monday over their plans for the economy as they tried to differentiate themselves in voters’ eyes before a national election due next May. Prime Minister David Cameron’s right-leaning
Boris Johnson has said that it is “human nature” to be fearful about being swamped by immigrants and those who seek to curb it are “not bad people”. The Mayor of London said it was the role of politicians to
A lawyer for two Myanmar migrants accused of murdering a pair of British holidaymakers on Thursday said key witnesses are too afraid to come forward, hampering his clients’ defence as they prepare to enter a plea. The men stand accused
Figures show that deprived Rochdale in north west England has more asylum seekers living there than the whole of the south east, which includes wealthy Kent, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire, as local politician calls for the “burden” to be “spread fairly
At least 91 BBC executives earn more than the Prime Minister, raking in close to £90 million a year between themselves. The salaries are on top of the pay-packets handed out to 250+ of the Corporation’s top stars who each
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will allow Northern Ireland to set its own level of corporation tax in a move which could help Prime Minister David Cameron to hold on to power after May’s national election, the Financial Times reported on
