Tag: Nigel Farage

The Clacton By-Election will take place on Thursday 9th October, the BBC reports. The timing of polling day is significant as it is a week after Conservative Party conference, which is expected to give David Cameron a poll bounce. It

It is difficult to envy David Cameron. The first prime minister in recent memory to suffer the ignominy of governing in coalition, Cameron’s chance of achieving a Conservative majority at the second time of asking are almost nil.  The odds

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) are set to hold a pro-union rally in Glasgow this month, just days ahead of the referendum on Scottish independence. Party Leader Nigel Farage will be joined by the Scottish Party Chairman Arthur Misty Thackery,

It’s UKIP all the way in Clacton. Being in the seaside town at the weekend was like arriving at party conference four weeks early: UKIP supporters flocked in from as far afield as Dundee and the atmosphere was celebratory. The

Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) has stormed into the lead in the British parliamentary constituency of Clacton – an area which will play host to a by-election soon following the defection and resignation of the sitting Member of Parliament

Editors Note: From The Mail on Sunday. UKIP are set to win their first Commons seat with a landslide 64 per cent of the vote following the biggest swing in modern political history. Turncoat MP Douglas Carswell is set to

Nigel Farage and UKIP’s newest party member Douglas Carswell MP looked like a honeymooning couple on the prom as they undertook their first walk about in Clacton today. Officially, Carswell is the UKIP underdog in the by-election but if today

A Conservative councillor has become the first to follow MP Douglas Carswell in joining UKIP. Councillor Chris Neal, who serves on Sevenoaks District Council, joined the anti-EU party today, saying that the Conservatives “no longer have the interests of ordinary

Earlier today my colleague Andre Walker wrote about how the Conservative Party were hot on the heels of their latest defector Douglas Carswell MP, who joined UKIP earlier today. Walker noted: After the Carswell defection UKIP leader Nigel Farage headed

LONDON, United Kingdom – Standing outside the Westminster Arms pub following Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell’s seismic announcement over the Tory MP’s defection away from the Conservative Party and to UKIP, the leader of UKIP was mobbed by admirers, including

Early today Douglas Carswell defected to UKIP based on their track records Breitbart London now assesses which Conservative MPs might be next. Adam AfriyieThe MP for Windsor has long dreamed of leading the Conservative Party but has been ostracized by

The gasps were audible, the media was stunned, the foundations of the Westminster establishment were once again rocked by Douglas Carswell MP’s defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP today. But the reverberations mean so much more to the country

Tory MP Douglas Carswell has defected to UKIP in a sensational press conference in Westminster that ended moments ago. He is currently Member of Parliament for Clacton, having been first elected as MP for Harwich in 2005. He will now resign

Nigel Farage has been formally selected as UKIP candidate for South Thanet in the 2015 General Election. The appointment ends months of waiting, which was caused because UKIP insisted on selecting after they knew who the Conservative candidate was, and

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage has said that he doesn’t intend to lead the party beyond 2020, meaning that the General Election next year may be the last one in which the ‘People’s Army’ is led into battle

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called on Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to take a stand on the Islamic State and strip UK nationals who are fighting abroad of their citizenship and cancel passports using the little-known Foreign Enlistment Act

Nigel Farage may be winning over the man in the street with his pub-loving image, but the sources of Ukip’s funds inhabit far more elevated circles, as Anne McElvoy discovers. The Right Moves The host is a generous party donor,

The BBC is planning yet another ‘hit job’ the UK Independence Party, it has been claimed this evening, with leader Nigel Farage lashing out against the publicly funded broadcaster over its long-standing bias against UKIP. In a statement issued this

An Asian member of the UK Independence Party has quit Nigel Farage’s organisation alleging that he has encountered racism within the party. Breitbart London understands that over the past month Ismail Patel has been engaged in online ‘flame wars’ with other

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that he does not personally support the death penalty, but would be happy to see the UK debate whether to reintroduce it. His comments come after a UKIP Member of the European Parliament, Louise

Local UKIP activists in South Thanet have been quoted in the Financial Times saying that Nigel Farage will run for the seat at the 2015 General Election. In July Breitbart London exclusively revealed that Farage had been forced to delay his

Over at the Guardian, John Harris writes that, despite apparently having gone quiet, UKIP still poses a significant electoral threat to the Labour Party. Analysis by Lord Ashcroft shows that UKIP is now the most popular party in two key