The most senior judge in the EU has told Commission President Jean Claude Juncker that his job is to “defeat Euroscepticism”. Vassilios Skouris, the President of the Court of Justice, made his comments at an event which was supposed to
A new poll has shown that 46.6 percent of Brits would vote to leave the EU if a referendum were held today, with just 34.3 per voting to stay in. The findings by polling company Survation also reveal a huge
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
Outside Westminster very few functionaries acquire genuine fame, and it might be hard for the public to understand the excitement created by the announcement that Paul “Gobby” Lambert is joining UKIP. Gobby is a well liked figure in the Westminster
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party has hit the headlines for daring to question whether women should ostentatiously breastfeed in public. “Nigel Farage says breastfeeding women should sit in a corner” screamed the Guardian. But closer inspection reveals
A UN Official has attacked Britain’s concerns over uncontrolled immigration ahead of a “fact finding” mission to Italy and said its attitudes are “bulls**t”. In an interview with The Independent, François Crépeau, who is the special rapporteur for migrants’ rights,
There are two types of people who should be most worried about George Osborne’s Autumn Statement: the rich and the Labour Party. The Chancellor’s big move reforming stamp duty means those buying properties over £1.5 million will in future be
The blitz on UKIP has redoubled in frenzy over the past few days. Accusations of the leadership “rigging” candidate selection, another contrived MSM row over policy “confusion” on sex education for primary schoolchildren, bogus Twitter accounts impersonating UKIP branches with
Arch Eurocrat Herman Van Rompuy will pocket almost 22 times the UK average salary over the next three years. The former EU Council President will get 55 per cent of his full salary, which works out at £133,723 a year
So Telegraph blogs is finally to close. To no one’s great surprise, I would imagine. Some of us, certainly, will have seen the writing on the wall in recent Telegraph blogposts like these: Tom Chivers: Why Global Warming Is More
Quiet now. Can you hear that? Ukip members say their party is coming along quite nicely, thank you very much; trebles all round and take a gander at the scoreboard. They have a brace of seats at Westminster and a
Nigel Farage has denied UKIP are homophobic by citing David Coburn MEP who describes himself as a “great big screaming poof”. Mr Farage made the comments in his weekly column in the Independent after a sacked UKIP spokesman made a
A senior government legal adviser has rubbished the Prime Minister’s plans to prevent terror suspects who travelled to the Islamic State from returning, saying they were not fully formed, and will never materialise as promised. David Anderson QC, who was
The EU would be “wounded” if the UK left, but “dead” without France, outgoing President Herman Van Rompuy has said. His speech, considered to be the final of his five year term as European Council President, came as a new
Today we learned that a quarter of Conservative Party MPs in David Cameron’s Cabinet are Eurosceptics. I know, I’m as surprised as you are – as high as that! The newspapers are now claiming that pressure is growing on Mr
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has admitted that the rules on open door immigration from Europe need changing as his party scored another humiliating result in the latest by-election. In
Seven of the eight serial rebels whose constituency demographics roughly replicate those in Rochester and Strood would win their seats back if they defected to the UK Independence Party (Ukip), according to calculations by Ukip expert Rob Ford. Ford (who
Today Owen Paterson declared war on the Vichy wing of the Conservative party by telling them exactly like it is: Britain’s ongoing membership of the EU is a disaster; we’d be much better off out; the only reason we ever
Just days after the insurgent UK Independence Party made electoral history by winning two by-elections in a row, leading members of both the Conservative and Labour Parties have decried their respective parties as out of touch. Labour Member of Parliament
Who’s laughing now? Nigel Farage and Mark Reckless for two. David Cameron, not so much. UKIP won the Rochester and Strood by-election amid offstage chatter of more Tories abandoning the party and throwing in their lot with UKIP. A second
GILLINGHAM, United Kingdom – UKIP won an historic second by-election in Rochester and Strood today after one of the hardest fought campaigns the party has ever been through. Initial projections had suggested the so-called People’s Army would storm the election
A petition has been started to get Myleene Klass fired from her role at Littlewoods after she humiliated Ed Miliband on ITV’s political programme ‘The Agenda’. And the half-Austrian, half-Filipino musician and model has also been told by a Labour
A group of MEPs are looking to topple the EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the rest of his team, using the EU’s own rules and regulations to do so. A “motion of censure” of the Commission was spearheaded by
