The director of one of the most influential Conservative Party aligned pressure groups has said that the party should not stand against Douglas Carswell MP, who defected to the UK Independence Party earlier today and triggered a by-election. Paul Osborn,
LONDON, United Kingdom – Standing outside the Westminster Arms pub following Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell’s seismic announcement over the Tory MP’s defection away from the Conservative Party and to UKIP, the leader of UKIP was mobbed by admirers, including
Early today Douglas Carswell defected to UKIP based on their track records Breitbart London now assesses which Conservative MPs might be next. Adam AfriyieThe MP for Windsor has long dreamed of leading the Conservative Party but has been ostracized by
The gasps were audible, the media was stunned, the foundations of the Westminster establishment were once again rocked by Douglas Carswell MP’s defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP today. But the reverberations mean so much more to the country
Tory MP Douglas Carswell has defected to UKIP in a sensational press conference in Westminster that ended moments ago. He is currently Member of Parliament for Clacton, having been first elected as MP for Harwich in 2005. He will now resign
Nigel Farage has been formally selected as UKIP candidate for South Thanet in the 2015 General Election. The appointment ends months of waiting, which was caused because UKIP insisted on selecting after they knew who the Conservative candidate was, and
Non-white voters now make up more than half of the first-time voters in some of the Conservative Party’s key targets, according to a data study from elections expert Ian Warren. This will make it harder for David Cameron to win
A Conservative Councillor has publicly backed Nigel Farage’s policy to strip ISIS fighters of British citizenship, according to Inside Croydon. Mario Creatura who is a councillor in Croydon said on Twitter “They’re British citizens killing innocent people. They shouldn’t be allowed
Have you heard of any serious, practical steps that the British government is going to take following the streams of information that continue to be reported? That: One quarter of foreign jihadists in ISIS are British? Around half of them
A member of the Conservative Party’s candidate’s list has accused Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European championship winning triple jumper Jonathan Edward CBE of being part of the “god squad” in a derogatory statement about Christians in the UK. Rene Kinzett
Westminster blog The Conservative Woman has run a scathing op-ed on Tory leadership hopeful and Mayor of London Boris Johnson, claiming that he would spell the end of the Conservative Party as we know it. Addressing the apparent pact of
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the new manifesto from UKIP – Britain’s Tea Party – is the debt it owes to its most bitter ideological opponents, David Cameron and Nick Clegg. From the simperingly centrist, faux-Tory Prime Minister, it
The Conservatives could lose 500,000 votes at the 2015 General Election according to Philip Bowern, Rural Affairs Editor of the Western Morning Mail. Bowern argues that David Cameron is uniquely placed to understand how important the issue is in the
Nigel Farage may be winning over the man in the street with his pub-loving image, but the sources of Ukip’s funds inhabit far more elevated circles, as Anne McElvoy discovers. The Right Moves The host is a generous party donor,
Welcome plans to expand Freedom of Information (FoI) laws to private companies that operate local monopolies have stopped short of including the statutory corporation Network Rail Ltd, leaving it free to continue evading public scrutiny. The company, which maintains almost
Number crunching blog politicalbetting.com has revealed the extent to which Britain’s Conservative Party stands to gain in the House of Commons should Scotland vote for independence next month. Although recent polls show separation remains the less likely outcome, the poll
Downing Street has been accused of misleading the public about the CV of a major Tory donor who was given a peerage, according to the Independent. Jewellery magnate Ranbir Singh Suri, was elevated to the House of Lords on the
Former British Prime Minister Sir John Major has praised immigrants, saying they exhibit a “very conservative instinct” by coming to Britain to improve their families’ lives. He added that he admired their “guts and drive” in traveling thousands of miles
The Daily Mail is stepping up its attacks on the UK Independence Party again following an intensive campaign on the run up to the European Elections in May. Today the Mail reports on the opinion of a new UKIP MEP
A former Conservative Party minister has waded into the row surrounding UKIP Member of the European Parliament Bill Etheridge after the Daily Mail’s attempt to smear the man over comments made about Hitler’s speaking capabilities. In a story published this
Overshadowed by the noisy departure of Baroness Warsi, another recently liberated Conservative is causing problems for his former boss, albeit in a slightly more subtle manner. While Warsi’s weapon of choice was the Sunday Times front page, Owen Paterson’s chosen
UKIP activists in Thurrock are in an unusual position – we are currently polling in first place in the constituency. The recent Lord Ashcroft poll had us at 36 percent, with Labour and the Tories trailing by some margin. That has
One of the world’s leading conservative philosophers, Roger Scruton, and one of Britain’s leading historians are joining Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, as senior patrons. The news comes despite the Conservative Party’s recent attacks on the Bow
In what might be considered a major gaffe, the European Union’s (EU) chief scientific adviser Anne Glover has just insisted her work should be “not transparent” and should be kept out of the public eye. Her advice to the Commission chief
