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Elisabeth, daughter of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and PR man Matthew Freud, central figures of the elite ‘Chipping Norton set’ which has included key members of the cosy upper reaches of centre-right politics and media are believed to be in

Last week’s defection a major Tory donor, on the back the defection of Members of Parliament Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless, has reignited the debate over whether both UKIP and the Conservative parties wouldn’t be better served by putting aside

Britain’s oldest think tank, the Labour party supporting Fabian Society has released a report detailing the “clear and present danger” that Ukip poses to the party’s 2015 election hopes. The report, titled Revolt on the Left: Labour’s UKIP problem and

Conservative proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a ‘Bill of Rights’ have hit a stumbling block as the European Commission has made it clear that adherence to the European Convention of Human Rights is a

You’d be forgiven for not having scoured the latest release from the Margaret Thatcher Archives today – but the Telegraph has, noting 10 interesting points about the newest tranch of documents being distributed, from 1984. But one nugget that seems to

Former Tory donor Arron Banks has upped his opening donation to UKIP from £100,000 to £1,000,000 after being stung by big-hitter William Hague who said he had never heard of him, and that he was “not a big figure”, which

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference today struck a nostalgic tone – and it makes perfect sense why he adopted such a routine: this conference may well be his last. So the speech extended

David Cameron has said he thinks schools should teach mainly in imperial measurements rather than in nasty, foreign, and undeniably French metric. Funny that. It’s almost like he’d had spies at the rowdy Conservative conference fringe event the night before

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — The son of Conservative Party MP Sir Bill Cash has been revealed as a new UKIP spokesperson today, on the eve of David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference. Cash senior has been a Tory

Prominent Tory right-winger Liam Fox has launched a stinging attack on the government’s immigration policy, saying that net migration is a “stupid measure” in determining who should come into Britain. Speaking at a fringe meeting of the All Party Parliamentary

Ahead of a general election which could prompt a referendum on Britain leaving the EU, Prime Minister David Cameron has become the latest Conservative leader struggling to hold his party together over Europe. Cameron has been hit by the defection

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Considering that Tory conference opened on a UKIP defection from Member of Parliament Mark Reckless, the annual Conservative Party gathering hasn’t actually gone that badly for David Cameron’s party. The main speeches and policy points are

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – A pressure group founded by Margaret Thatcher has claimed that the former Prime Minister would not have endorsed defections to UKIP if she were alive today. Conservative Way Forward (CWF), which Thatcher headed until her death

Is there no limit to the depth of human depravity? Be warned: if you are morally squeamish this report will shock you. Rumours, even solid allegations, are emerging that Mark Reckless was not entirely candid with Dave’s enforcers on the

“A funeral”, “a wake”, “awful”, “dead”. These are some of the words used by attendees to describe Labour’s annual conference last week. That is Labour, the party which barring a miracle will sweep to power at next year’s general election

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has once more called for a pact between the Conservative Party and UKIP. Speaking at a meeting of the Eurosceptic Bruges Group on the fringe of the Conservative Party Conference, the MP for North East Somerset

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Conservative Party MEP Daniel Hannan has taken to the Daily Mail today to insist that an electoral pact between UKIP and the Tories is the only way to stop the Labour Party taking control of the

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – George Osborne used a series of media interviews at the Conservative conference to pledge a free vote in parliament on the EU referendum. This will allow backbench MPs to make their own decision on whether to

The political glue that holds any new, insurgent party like UKIP together is the people. Money and resources of course help. But ultimately UKIP’s rise has been caused by thousands and thousands of people who are joining, campaigning and helping

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Conservative Party donor, publisher and pollster Lord Ashcroft has today unveiled new polling showing the latest movements in Conservative-held seats on the run up to the General Election next year. His event, which was packed to

UKIP’s new by-election candidate Mark Reckless, who yesterday rocked the British political establishment with his high profile defection on the last day of UKIP conference, faced small scale protests today from far left extremists during a walkabout of his constituency

This week Nigel Farage decamped his self-proclaimed People’s Army to the Yorkshire town of Doncaster. Starting days after a somewhat lacklustre Labour Party conference, the UKIP gathering was the last big opportunity to set their stall out not only for

It turns out that while David Cameron was dispatching the full might of his imperial outreach – six aircraft – to bomb ISIS, Nigel Farage was launching his own blitz on the Tories. The defection of Mark Reckless was not

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — The Conservative Party conference has begun with a bang as, moments after Member of Parliament Mark Reckless resigned and defected to UKIP, another Tory MP has resigned, this time over allegedly lewd social media pictures. Sky

Conservative Member of Parliament Mark Reckless has this afternoon defected to the UK Independence Party in another surprise move by Nigel Farage’s political party. Reckless will “resign” his seat at the House of Commons and force another by-election, he has