Yesterday afternoon, having been triumphantly received first by the 1922 and then his adoring new cohort, David Cameron announced the details of his reshuffle. You can picture the moment. A gleeful Prime Minister instructing an adviser to tweet out the
Maybe Nigel Farage saw this result coming. “The most likely outcome is a lot of UKIP votes and a lot of angry UKIP voters. They are going to feel unrepresented,” Fararge told reporters last night after polls closed and the
“Eve of poll” is one of the holy days in the liturgical calendar of the political class. It is a red-letter day for politicians, exhausted after weeks of cack-handed lying, evasions and insincere drivel. It signals to them that within
The Conservative Party’s oldest think tank, the Bow Group, has endorsed UKIP in seats the Tories cannot win. The Bow Group’s chairman, Ben Harris-Quinney, made the announcement in an email to the group’s 10,000 members on Monday. Mr Harris-Quinney admitted
A mixed-race HIV positive Londoner has written a letter of support to Nigel Farage following the Ukip leader’s remarks on HIV health tourism. The anonymous author, who describes himself as a “victim of HIV immigration”, details how his health is being put
The leaders of the three major parties were in Leeds to face a grilling from the BBC Question Time audience in their final set piece appearance of the general election. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were led out
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has attacked the media establishment for portraying his party as racist. He said the Scottish National Party were the real racists responsible for stirring up anti-English sentiment. Speaking during a visit to Hartlepool ahead of the
Nigel Farage has slammed the EU’s approach to the Mediterranean immigrant crisis, saying its common asylum policy will do nothing to stop the threat of Islamic extremists who have threatened to sail to Europe in their tens of thousands. Speaking
The Labour and Conservative candidates in Thanet South have united to demand that UKIP not be allowed to break their “great love”. The two parties wheeled out their candidates, to hold a leaflet smearing UKIP, and to repeat an unsubstantiated
Latest polling data has shown that UKIP leader Nigel Farage is nine points ahead in the constituency of Thanet South with less than two weeks to go until polling day. The numbers put Farage on 39 per cent, nine points
The BBC should be “cut back to the bone”, Nigel Farage has told reporters during a walkabout in Kent. The UKIP leader said the license fee should be roughly a third of its current level, bringing it down from £145.50
There are currently two general elections taking place. The first and more advertised is the fantasy election being conducted within the imagination of the political class, the BBC, the dead-tree press and the vast array of public bodies, quangos and
UKIP has been forced to deny persistent rumours Nigel Farage is suffering from burnout. The latest claims come from Dan Hodges in the Daily Telegraph, the Labour blogger said Farage “is fading away without a fight” and that his “magic
Nigel Farage has launched an attack on Ed Miliband, claiming the Labour leader is the “greatest spokesman for multi-national business” and that UKIP speaks for working class people. The comments came as rumours spread that UKIP possess secret polling showing
Nigel Farage and UKIP are facing their “biggest political challenge yet” after the seat of Thanet South became the most contested single seat in a British General Election. Party officials at UKIP and the Conservatives confirmed they have visited each
The Conservatives have ruled out any possibility of a deal with UKIP in the event of a hung Parliament. Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove has dismissed the notion of a coalition, saying that “we’re not going to get into bed
We all know UKIP wants to leave the European Union and David Cameron has begrudgingly promised the Conservatives will hold an In / Out Referendum on Britain’s EU membership. But aside from this, what are the EU policies of the other parties? In
The Tory treasury minister, Andrea Leadsom, has accused the BBC of bias over the selection of the audience at the opposition leaders’ TV debate. Nigel Farage was widely booed and heckled from an audience that the BBC conceded was “mostly” from
Nigel Farage is set to win the five-way ‘challengers’ debate tonight, according to leading political spread betting firm Sporting Index. Most polls put the UKIP leader as joint winner of the previous all-party debate, and is expected to benefit from the absence
Nigel Farage has declined the offer of a duel with an eccentric Polish prince after admitting he does not have a sword. The UKIP leader was challenged by Janek Zylinski who nominated Hyde Park as the venue. Prince Janek posted
The government has introduced new guidelines to clamp down on health tourism just days after UKIP leader Nigel Farage was slammed by his political opponents for raising the subject. The new rules advise hospitals that they have a “legal obligation”
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has defended a member of his party who works in the porn industry, reasoning that no laws have been broken. John Langley, aka Jonny Rockard has been working in the industry for 30 years. He now refers
Men called Nigel are twice as likely to vote for Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party as members of the general public, a new survey has discovered. Men called Dave, Nick or Ed were, by contrast, showed no real deviation from
Say what you like about UKIP – and you will – the insurgent party has never been shy of attracting attention at the expense of the older, legacy parties. Refreshingly, it also exhibits a sense of humour on the campaign
Nigel Farage has written to UKIP supporters asking them to come and help him in Thanet South, after the Conservatives began piling in huge numbers of party activists. Farage is generally expected to win the seat but a poll last week
