UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been forced to delay his final decision to run for Thanet South in the 2015 general election because the Conservatives have not yet selected their candidate. Local Tories are desperate to select local councillor Julie
The National Health Service (NHS) – the “envy of the world” or a study in neo Marxism, depending on your point of view – continues to please and disappoint in equal measures. Paid for out of taxation and free at
Details of the government’s “grand plan” to merge National Insurance (NI) and Income Tax were briefed out this weekend. Yesterday, Downing Street played down the speculation, with the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesperson telling journalists the reports were “entirely news to
A former rising star of the Tories’ tech strategy, Rohan Silva was considered the future of the U.K. technology industry. But the Whitehall high flyer’s career has stalled: he’s now an office manager in Shoreditch. His promised “ed tech” startup
Veteran journalist and BBC TV presenter Jeremy Paxman has admitted he is a “one-nation Tory” and complained that his former employers at the BBC2 show Newsnight are “13-year-olds” who foolishly think they can “change the world”, according to the Independent.
UKIP could take both parliamentary constituencies in Plymouth at the next election, according to a think tank linked to the Conservative Party. Research by the Bow Group indicates that Oliver Colvile, Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport and Alison
Conservatives in Thanet South stand accused of delaying the selection of their candidate who may be Nigel Farage’s opponent for the parliamentary seat of South Thanet. The delay is thought to be occurring so that a local candidate gets selected.
David Cameron’s gamble in opposing Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president has burnt bridges with allies and left him with few cards to play before a likely 2017 referendum on Britain leaving the EU, experts say. With Juncker’s confirmation looking
“There’s a strange strain of bullying going on at the moment, of Ed. If I took a photograph of you eating a sandwich I could make you look like a muppet if I wanted to, there is something rather distasteful
A Conservative Member of Parliament is facing a backlash after appeared to tweet about physically assaulting a female journalist by punching her in the throat. Michael Fabricant’s Twitter account contained a message about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, according to the Independent. The
CITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom – British Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove yesterday stated the case for diversity within the Conservative Party, and offered his support for the idea of the nation state. Gove, who was introduced to
Tory Member of Parliament for Windsor Adam Afriyie has revealed that Britain’s immigration figures may be off the mark by around 250,000 over the course of this parliament, due to margin of error allowances made by the Office for National
Despite determined tactics by the British Conservatives to stop it, the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group, the caucus in the European Parliament that has been the platform in Brussels and Strasbourg for Nigel Farage and the UK Independence
Bloodbath at the Telegraph, formerly house journal of the Tory voting shires. Victims of the latest carnage include its former deputy editor Ben Brogan, its blogs editor Damian Thompson and two of its star feature writers Jenny McCartney and Cole
Former prime minister Sir John Major, the Tory politician who surrendered significant parts of the British Constitution to the European Union in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and turned Her Majesty’s subjects into “citizens of the EU,” yesterday lectured the Scots
A Dutch Calvinist political party which denies the equality of women and which until 2006 banned women from party membership has now become a member of the British Conservative’s group (the European Conservatives and Reformists) at the European Parliament. In
The Conservative Party strategy to cut away eurosceptic allies from Nigel Farage and UKIP has had another success in the European Parliament, with the single member of a Dutch party abandoning UKIP’s caucus and joining the Tories’ European Conservatives and
In the days before the last cabinet reshuffle, there were a number Conservative Party MPs absolutely convinced that they were in line for a promotion. “Have you heard anything?” one texted me hopefully, chancing that someone in his phonebook would
One of my favourite journalists (also education-impresario, and author) Toby Young has this week been accused of being both an Islamophobe and an anti-Semite. It is of course quite possible to display anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish bigotry. Members of the British
A huge surge in migrants claiming British citizenship is causing the delays at the passport office that are putting British nationals summer holidays at risk according to the Daily Mail. A record 207,989 foreigners were granted British citizenship last year, up
Conservative MP Bob Neill has pledged to reintroduce a bill to parliament that would guarantee the UK a referendum on EU membership in 2017. The bill was first put forward last year and unanimously passed by the House of Commons,
Britain’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) may have dodged a bullet fired by the Conservatives straight at Nigel Farage. Members of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement, the Italian anti-establishment, anti-EU party, voted to have their 17 members in the European Parliament
The Conservative Party, and more notably Prime Minister David Cameron, is set to fall on the wrong side of German Chancellor Angela Merkel after it emerged that their European Parliamentary grouping has grown beyond control and allied with one of
The British Conservatives in the European Parliament have finalised the nomination of their candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament: a former Liberal Democrat, now Tory MEP who has mocked and insulted eurosceptics. Sajjad Karim, a Lancashire-born Muslim of
