Prime Minister David Cameron’s hopes of being able to secure changes to the EU’s freedom of movement rules have taken a blow today after the outgoing European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show: “Any kind
The news of UKIP’s first elected MP, the probably election of it’s second in the coming weeks, and a nail bitingly close result in a Labour stronghold have once again turned all eyes on Nigel Farage, the insurgent party’s mercurial
Last week, I made a silly video featuring the Conservative party’s chief whip Michael Gove. If you haven’t seen it yet then obviously you should because it’s a work of accidental genius. But I do want to stress the accidental
A major new poll to be published in the Independent newspaper tomorrow has placed Britain’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) on 24 percentage points, a whopping 21 percent rise since the General Election of 2010. Following the unprecedented performances of the
As the UKIP bandwagon rolls on, the prospect of UKIP holding the balance of power in the 2015 general election is becoming less and less impossible. Estimates of the numbers of UKIP MPs who could be sitting in Parliament in
Tory MP Philip Hollobone has urged the government to place a limit on international aid to countries that cannot take back prisoners from the UK due to the standards of incarceration in their own country. In a Westminster debate he
Lord Heseltine, the malcontent minister who brought down Margaret Thatcher, hosted a Labour MP along with a 15ft statue of Communist dictator Lenin this weekend. The 15ft statue forms part of the collection at his grade one listed mansion Thenford
A new poll published by IPSOS-Mori today shows that since UKIP won its first seat in the Houses of Parliament, the attitude towards them as a legitimate political party has drastically shifted in their favour – with more people than
Today wasn’t a good day for David Cameron. He was forced to answer allegations that his Welfare Minister Lord Freud had suggested disabled people shouldn’t be paid the minimum wage. A throaty and obviously unwell Miliband demanded the Prime Minister
The date for the Rochester and Strood by-election has been set for the 20th November 2014, just over one month from now. The poll came about because of the defection of Mark Reckless to UKIP, the MP followed Douglas Carswell’s
Douglas Carswell, UKIP’s newly elected MP, has suggested the next defector to the party will be from Labour, according to the Sunday Times. He claimed to have had a discussion with an unnamed Labour MP on Friday morning and they discussed
Tory MP Brooks Newmark has announced he will not stand again for Parliament next year, following revelations that he had a 2-year-long affair and sexted multiple young girls including a reporter posing as a young girl. It was a horrible
The scandal-rocked former Conservative Minister for Civil Society, Brooks Newmark MP, has today announced that he will not seek re-election in Braintree in May next year following a fresh new scandal set to be reported by the Sun on Sunday
I’ve just been re-reading what former Tory MP turned Times and Spectator columnist Matthew Parris wrote in the run-up to the recent by-election in Clacton. It goes some way towards explaining why UKIP won. So much so that, as I
British Prime Minister David Cameron is said to be urgently scrambling to the right on issues such as immigration and the European Union in a desperate, last minute bid to keep UKIP from stealing Conservative Party votes en masse at
CLACTON-UPON-SEA, United Kingdom — The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) tonight took its first elected seat in the House of Commons following Douglas Carswell’s stunning defection and by-election in the Essex seat of Clacton-Upon-Sea. Shortly after the Heywood and Middleton
CLACTON-ON-SEA, United Kingdom — “This idea that they’re all the same… It’s true. They’ve all got the same, multicultural, metropolitan ideas for England,” my cab driver in Clacton told me this morning. “I hope this is like another peasants revolt,
After four years as junior partners in the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday closed their final conference before May’s general election in a surprisingly optimistic mood despite dismal poll ratings. The centrist party won almost a quarter of
Read the full text of Nick Clegg’s 2014 party conference speech: Before I say anything else, I’m sure I speak on behalf of all Liberal Democrats when I say that our hearts and condolences go out to the family and
The British candidate for European commissioner was today hit by accusations of selling a “fairy tale” as he faced MEPs for the second time. The former leader of the House of Lords opened the second hearing by offering his hopes
Various commentators have recently started to talk about a “move to the left” and “departure of libertarianism” within UKIP. As a member of UKIP’s Board of Directors (we call it the National Executive Committee) I want to map out where
Over the weekend, I lost a bet. So I had to sing “America the Beautiful” live to 750 hardcore gamers. Their reaction – kind remarks about my singing voice aside – was extraordinary. An outpouring of “USA! USA” and other
Now in it’s third day, senior figures speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, Scotland have been laying out their vision for the future of the party. Hoping for another hung parliament next year, they have been laying down
Even Eurosceptic Conservative Members of Parliament have begun to voice their concerns over UKIP challengers at the next general election, with the ardent right winger Philip Davies MP telling the Telegraph and Argus that he “very much hopes” Nigel Farage’s party
