Labour’s acting leader Harriet Harman has confirmed the party will now support an EU referendum by the end of 2017. She told the Sunday Times the reverse in position came after Labour “reflected on the conversations we had on doorsteps” during the
Robin Birley, a former Conservative Party donor and stepson of the revered Eurosceptic Sir James Goldsmith has said that he believes Nigel Farage is the right man to lead the ‘out’ campaign if Britain has a referendum on EU membership.
UKIP’s Suzanne Evans appears to be the latest casualty following a coup attempt against party leader Nigel Farage last week. Earlier today it was reported that Patrick O’Flynn MEP had resigned his role as economic spokesman. Tonight, UKIP has confirmed that
Patrick O’Flynn MEP has today stepped down as UKIP economic spokesman and issued a ‘humiliating‘ apology to party leader Nigel Farage for his recent statements. Mr O’Flynn, who launched a broadside against Farage and his closest advisors this weekend, said today:
Ofcom, the communications regulator in the UK, today announced the findings of its investigation into ‘Ukip: The First 100 Days’, Channel 4’s “ground-breaking and provocative fictional documentary set in a fabricated future where UKIP have won the 2015 general election.”
UKIP’s only Member of Parliament, Douglas Carswell, has met the party leader’s challenge to those briefing against him to have the courage to speak out. Mr Carswell has taken to the Times newspaper — the same outlet that UKIP MEP
Just a quick one: was anyone else as surprised and delighted as I was by Brian May’s performance on BBC Question Time last night? I’ve been quite rude about him in the past. Yes, that distinctively shimmery, echoey, almost Venusian
On a slow news day reports of civil war within the upper echelons of UKIP were stoked by those keen to pronounce the political death of both Nigel Farage and the party he leads. The BBC excitedly declared the party
Kent Police have confirmed they are investigating a claim of electoral fraud in South Thanet, the seat Nigel Farage failed to take in the general election. No further details have been released but police say they are making enquiries. A UKIP spokesman
UKIP Party Chairman, Steve Crouther, has denied allegations reported by Breitbart London that elements of the party’s National Executive were unhappy about Nigel Farage remaining leader. Mr Farage had resigned after failing to take South Thanet but on Monday the
Nigel Farage is believed to have forced UKIP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to refuse his resignation despite opposition to the plan. Breitbart London understands he considered reneging on his commitment to resign before he even made the announcement on Friday.
Yesterday afternoon, having been triumphantly received first by the 1922 and then his adoring new cohort, David Cameron announced the details of his reshuffle. You can picture the moment. A gleeful Prime Minister instructing an adviser to tweet out the
What a fussy lot some of you are. Last week, the left in England experienced one of its most stunning reverses since Margaret Thatcher crushed the Miners’ Strike. We saw the defenestration of George Galloway, Ed Davey, Vince Cable, Ed
Britain’s polling organizations fail disastrously; Pre-election polls and Chaos Theory; British and Israeli elections reflected nationalistic surges; Trends in American politics
This Game-of-Thrones election has been marred by a terrible injustice and we all know exactly what it is: the member for South Thanet right now should be UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the fact that he’s not is a totally
Maybe Nigel Farage saw this result coming. “The most likely outcome is a lot of UKIP votes and a lot of angry UKIP voters. They are going to feel unrepresented,” Fararge told reporters last night after polls closed and the
Darlington Council is under fire for leaving off the name of the UKIP candidate on a number of the ballot papers. David Hodgson was missing from 89 ballot papers in the Harrowgate Hill ward of Darlington and was only made
Up to four million people are thought to have voted tactically today and UKIP could be one of the biggest victims, according to a YouGov poll published by The Times this morning. Peter Kellner, YouGov’s president, said that tactical voting
Our freedoms of conscience and association have taken a bit of a beating over the last few years, on both sides of the Atlantic. From florists to bakers, B&B owners, pizza parlours, more bakers, even whole states, the redefinition of
“Eve of poll” is one of the holy days in the liturgical calendar of the political class. It is a red-letter day for politicians, exhausted after weeks of cack-handed lying, evasions and insincere drivel. It signals to them that within
A man in Dorset has been hurt after he was attacked by five men because of the UKIP poster in his garden. Mark Smith was punched in the face by thugs who objected to the 8ft by 4ft poster on
Yesterday I gave you my thoughts on the Conservatives. Today it’s UKIP’s turn. The reasons for not wanting to vote UKIP seem to me fairly obvious. Either you’re a stupid lefty or you’re in a Tory/Labour marginal and you only
The single currency is “irreversible” and freedom of movement within the EU a “basic principle” the European Commission President has said. Jean Claude Juncker told an audience in Belgium that an ailing Greece must stay in the eurozone or “the
The Conservative Party’s oldest think tank, the Bow Group, has endorsed UKIP in seats the Tories cannot win. The Bow Group’s chairman, Ben Harris-Quinney, made the announcement in an email to the group’s 10,000 members on Monday. Mr Harris-Quinney admitted
Jimmy Carter blames Netanyahu for failure of Mideast peace negotiations; European Union in disarray over big surge in migrants this weekend; Saudi Arabia denies reports of Saudi ground troops in Yemen
