Conservative Members of Parliament have voted in the second round under party rules to select the two candidates who will go forward, choosing Home Secretary Theresa May and Minister of State for Energy Andrea Leadsom. Michael Gove had been in the
As Conservative Members of Parliament vote to select the two candidates that will be put to members for leadership of the party, the country’s grassroots favourite Andrea Leadsom has spoken in Millbank, laying out her vision for the next four
A Labour councillor has said he will report a former Yorkshire mayor to the police for liking “racist” tweets. George McManus said tweets sent and ‘liked’ by Heather Venter would “cause racial and religious hatred” and that they were “designed
London (AFP) – Britain’s Interior Minister Theresa May emerged as the clear frontrunner Tuesday as lawmakers started picking a new prime minister, while shockwaves from the Brexit vote hit the property market and sent the pound plunging.
(REUTERS) – Former London Mayor and leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson on Monday gave his backing to junior minister Andrea Leadsom to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister. Leadsom, 53, second-favourite in the race
A Breitbart London straw poll of potential Conservative Party leadership candidates has resulted in the Brexiteering Andrea Leadsom receiving 50 per cent of nearly 8,000 individual votes
Britain should have a new Prime Minister by 2 September, the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee of backbench MPs has recommended. The committee, which according to the party’s constitution is responsible for organising the leadership election, said this afternoon that nominations
Contents: Nationalistic tensions increase as UK and EU drift towards Brexit; Japan’s government calls emergency meeting as yen surges after Brexit; Israel and Turkey announcing a reconciliation agreement on Monday
The Electoral Commission has come under attack from the Conservative Party, regarding the impartiality of senior staff and suggestions that bias influenced decisions not to investigate Labour and Scottish Nationalist election spending. Conservative Party lawyers have opened a new front in
It has emerged that Prime Minister David Cameron’s insistence that an Australian-style points-based immigration system would be bad for Britain directly contradicts a pledge to introduce such a system in the Conservative Party’s 2005 manifesto – which Mr. Cameron wrote.
A judge has granted police extra time to investigate all election fraud in South Thanet, where the Conservative party snatched victory from UKIP denying Nigel Farage a seat in Parliament. District judge Justin Barron said claims surrounding Tory expenses were
The Conservative Party descended into open warfare yesterday as three MPs called for the Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over Project Fear. The calls have raised the possibility of a general election this autumn, to allow the Conservatives to
Dozens of Conservatives have threatened the Prime Minister David Cameron with a vote of no-confidence following his claim that voting to leave the European Union (EU) is immoral. This morning he upped the ante, suggesting that a vote to leave
The Prime Minister David Cameron has ducked out of taking part in any head to head debates on the European Union (EU) referendum question, claiming he doesn’t want to create division within the Conservative Party.
Michael Heseltine is the establishment’s oldest hitman, a liberal infiltrator and a traitor to the conservative movement. It’s time for conservatives to hit back hard. A quarter of a century ago Margaret Thatcher was betrayed by many of her closest
The head of the Conservative Party’s delegation in the European Parliament has stormed out of a BBC studio after refusing to debate one of his fellow Conservative MEPs on Brexit. Ashley Fox MEP, who represents the South East and Gibraltar,
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – who are linked to the pro-international Caliphate group Muslim Brotherhood – has demanded the Conservative party conduct an urgent inquiry into ‘Islamophobia’ in the party. During the campaign for London Mayor, the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith,
Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party was sworn in as Mayor of London on Saturday, becoming the first Muslim to head a major European capital after an election campaign marked by the Conservatives’ efforts to link him to extremism. The
The #ToryElectionFraud hashtag trended on Twitter for hours last night as further discrepancies between declared and actual spending by the Conservative Party at the General Election last year emerged. Channel 4 News reported last night that another Tory agent and
Police have been instructed by Britain’s Electoral Commission to prepare for the prosecution of dozens of Conservative Party candidates and officials. The party is currently facing claims it breached election spending rules in a series of key constituencies at last
British Prime Minister David Cameron called the EU referendum to try to heal Conservative party divisions on Europe, but the bitterness of the campaign has sparked fears for its future — and his. Senior Tories on rival sides of the
Former Tory MP Matthew Parris writes in The Times: “This is a battle for the soul of the Tory party.” Here’s a riddle. I’m hot for staying in a club that leaves me cold: losing sleep about the real possibility
When the Conservative Prime Minister gave a speech on the European Union (EU) at a leading university this week, all the members of both the Labour and Liberal Democrat student societies were invited… but no one from the Conservative society
The government’s economic projections for the UK, as laid out in yesterday’s Budget, are based on levels of immigration which directly contradict their “promise” to bring migrant numbers down to the “tens of thousands”. The revelation will stoke suspicions that
Hundreds of prospective Conservative Members of Parliament have complained that they are being effectively gagged from campaigning for a British exit from the European Union for fear that the party will terminate their political careers. Party bosses are currently reviewing
Long-standing Conservative Party cheerleader Tim Montgomerie has sensationally announced tonight that he is leaving the Conservative Party. The following is from Mr. Montgomerie’s article in the Times newspaper announcing his departure: This charade over the EU is the final straw
More than 130 Conservative Party councillors have written to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, warning that he risks destroying the Party if he continues to ignore Conservative grassroots opinions on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU). The signatories have
Channel 4 has alleged that the Conservative Party has overspent in at least three by-elections, breaching UK election rules in order to stifle the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Reporting on last night’s Channel 4 news, veteran reporter
Prime Minister David Cameron has come under fire from his own Conservative Party over his advice to MPs not to allow pressure from constituents to convince them to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. In a letter to The Sunday
Google, the tech giant at the centre of a tax controversy in the UK, has “categorically” rubbished “conspiracy theories” suggesting the search engine’s autocomplete function censors results relating to the Conservative Party. Users of Google’s search engine noticed anomalies in the
David Cameron is under challenge from increasing numbers of his own MPs over his lack of action coupled with slim ambition as he seeks to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s European Union (EU) membership. An alliance of 40 Conservatives wrote to the Mr. Cameron last
From Michael Crick at Channel 4 News: Following my report on Channel 4 News last night, the Electoral Commission has asked the Conservative Party to explain why the party decided four bills for a hotel in Ramsgate during the general
Channel 4’s Michael Crick has weighed into the discrepancies over the Conservative Party’s election expenses in South Thanet, where Craig Mackinlay beat UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage. Speaking live on Channel 4 News this evening, Mr. Crick’s claims tied
Questions are being asked of the Conservative Party’s reporting of expenses after it emerged today that the party has claimed that over £14,000 worth of hotel bills in the South Thanet seat were registered as ‘national expenses’. Under Electoral Commission
The government’s new “transgender equalities inquiry” has concluded that trans people are being failed by the state and society in many areas of life, claiming they need more money, more recognition, more changes in the law, and more special provisions. The
A Conservative Party Member of Parliament has called for gender information to be stripped from legal documents including driving licenses and passports, claiming the category to be “not relevant”. As chair of the British Parliament’s Transgender Equalities Inquiry, Maria Miller is
The Tory Party chairman and close friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, stands accused of undermining his party’s commitment to neutrality in the Brexit referendum by ‘directing’ Conservative donors to fund the pro-European Union campaign. Steve Baker MP, chairman of Conservatives for Britain, told The Daily
A Labour run council has been criticised in Parliament for “playing politics” with Syrian refugees, by planning to house them exclusively in a limited number of Conservative-voting suburban areas. The new arrivals are expected as part of the Government’s programme to
Tempers are fraying in the House of Commons as the ten hour Syria debate on whether or not to carry out airstrikes against Islamic State begins. Members of Parliament will vote this evening; if the motion is successful, the first
The deputy chairman of the Conservative Party has admitted having an affair, after it was claimed a Tory aide tried to blackmail him over it in order to win a seat. Rob Halfon, who is a member of the cabinet,
