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A Conservative MP has told a court how he fought off a drunken mugger who attacked him as he left a restaurant in central London. Michael Ellis, MP for Northampton North, was approached by Eastern European immigrant Juraj Adam while

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom – Two former Conservative cabinet ministers have called on the United States to back Britain leaving the European Union (EU). Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Liam Fox and Owen Paterson called on President Obama to stop

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Carrying placards reading “End austerity now” and “Cut war not welfare”, tens of thousands of protesters marched through Manchester as British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party opened its annual conference on Sunday. Police and

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom – A large left-wing protest turned violent this afternoon as a variety of far-left groups demonstrated against the Conservative Party in Manchester. Between 70,000 and 120,000 people marched through the city centre (estimates vary), with reports of

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom – Today Britain’s ruling Conservative Party gathers for its annual conference in the city of Manchester. Business cards will be exchanged, platitudes spoken and (cheap) prosecco quaffed, but will there be any serious, intellectual conservatism? My first

The suicide note of Conservative Party activist Elliott Johnson has been revealed today, alleging that he was indeed bullied by Tory Party Director and former parliamentary candidate Mark Clarke, as well as claiming that he felt “betrayed” by activist and

Prime Minister David Cameron said his renegotiation of Britain’s ties with the European Union (EU) was “bloody hard work” but that he would not be rushed into naming a date for a referendum on membership, The Sunday Telegraph reported. On

As many as one in five of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lawmakers is likely to vote to leave the European Union in a referendum, new research showed on Friday, indicating the scale of the divide over Europe in the

Bullying controversy Tory director and former candidate Mark Clarke has admitted to approaching media outlets over a sex tape of a political rival. The senior activist and former Conservative party director, who until recently headed up Conservative youth campaigning wing Team2015 has

Former Conservative Party candidate Mark Clarke has been named as the “man at the heart” of bullying allegations made by the 21-year-old Tory activist Elliott Johnson, who is believed to have taken his own life on the night of September

Police have formally opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Elliott Johnson, a young Conservative party activist who is believed to have taken his own life following alleged bullying – as reported by Breitbart London last week. The Conservative

On September 27th 2013, I purchased the domain UniteTheRight.com, in line with a plan formulated by myself and commentator Toby Young, to bring together UKIP and Conservative Party voters in order to keep Labour out at the May 2015 General

The UK Independence Party’s (UKIP) only Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell has told the Guardian newspaper that he would “cheerfully vote for a motion to allow a quota of refugees” and implied that he wasn’t keen to attend UKIP’s party

Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens has continued his weekly attacks on Britain’s increasingly leftward-drifting Conservative Party, this time remarking upon how similar Tory policies are to those of the newly crowned Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Last week, Mr

Two topless feminists have stormed the stage at a Muslim conference in France. The activists, from hard-line feminist outfit Femen jumped on stage, with “Nobody makes me submit” scrawled across their bare chests. The most prominent protester shouted, “Nobody makes me

The left-ward drift of Britain’s Conservative Party is set to continue, if the harbingers of the country’s so-called ‘right wing’ are heeded by the Prime Minister. Today’s call by the Spectator’s editor Fraser Nelson describes how David Cameron should lurch left

Conservative commentator Peter Hitchens has called for the Tory party to rename itself the Socialist Workers Party as it would be a more honest description of its ideology. In an interview with left-winger Owen Jones, Hitchens a former Trotskyite, said

Rogue businesses that fail to pay staff the new national living wage will face fines of up to £20,000, David Cameron has warned. In a crackdown on non-compliance, the prime minister has vowed to ensure employers “pay the price” if they

The non-partisan and independent campaign group, TheKnow, has been banned from the Conservative Party Conference. The group which seeks “to engage people from all walks of life, across the political spectrum” has been banned for “political reasons.” TheKnow Facebook page states: “TheKnow

Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has a history of courting Muslim voters through flirtations with Islamic fundamentalism. This has included addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab.

Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, frontrunner in the group seeking the Conservative London mayoral nomination, has warned the “glee” of his party colleagues at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming Labour Party leader is “totally misplaced”. He said Corbyn could somehow capture the “zeitgeist”

I received a LOT of messages about an article I wrote last week on how Conservative advocacy groups and activists wouldn’t know conservatism if it hit them square in the mouth. Some good, some bad. Some calling me a mentalist (well, one).

I once ran a blog called ‘Keep Right Online’ with a chap called Oliver Cooper. He went on to be, and I’m sure he won’t even mind me saying so, the sycophantic Chairman of the Conservative Future (aka Tory Youth)

In the debate between the four Conservative mayoral election hopefuls, clear dividing lines were drawn between the two members of Parliament, Syed Kamall MEP and Zac Goldsmith MP, and the two London-centric candidates, Andrew Boff, a Conservative London Assembly member,

The Sun newspaper, hardly known for its ideological integrity, appears to have tacked left today, attacking Conservative Mayoral Candidate Zac Goldsmith for appealing to right wing activists who support the oldest Conservative think tank in Britain. The Bow Group, which

Former Chancellor Ken Clarke has denied ever meeting a former actor who claimed he groped him when he was a teenager, describing the allegation as so ridiculous it was “rather like Martians landing.” Mr Clarke – who is still a

The Conservative Party’s Headquarters (CCHQ) have been acting like a North Korean regime for years. Why is the Tory cheerleader website, ConservativeHome, now suddenly surprised that it wants to disclose little to no information pertaining to the selection of its Mayoral

“This is a Budget that puts security first,” claimed Chancellor George Osborne as the first real Tory Budget since 1996 was revealed in the House of Commons today. The Cameron government confirmed it will commit 2 per cent of GDP to

The Conservative Party is set to take another swipe at the Church of England tomorrow as George Osborne announces in his Budget speech that he will look at relaxing Sunday trading laws – the legislation that keeps Britain’s shops from

LONDON, England – The first Conservative Party hustings for London’s mayoral election took place today, with none of the ‘favourite’ candidates in attendance, and surprisingly, very little in the way of ‘conservative’ politics mentioned. There was no mention of immigration, terrorism and security, and

A graphic released by the Institute for Government shows 14 departments have decreased in staff size since the spending review of 2010, only three have increased. The three that were so central to David Cameron’s worldview that they merited protection, and indeed

The Conservative Party’s attempts to character assassinate one of its own, long-standing supporters, has today unravelled, as the Conservatives Abroad, Madrid branch confirm the position of Benjamin Harris-Quinney as President. Just days before the General Election, the President of the Conservatives Abroad, Madrid

The Guardian reader’s editor is investigating complaints against the newspaper after it reported leaked information that former Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps edited his own Wikipedia page and that of other Conservative ministers via a “sockpuppet” account. The claims were made by

Now is an opportune time to consider the condition and prospects of the Conservative Party. Anyone who aspires to do this in any remotely objective way must first of all confront – and dismiss – the official narrative. According to

Conservative MP Nick Gibb has announced he is to marry his partner of 29 years, having only told his family last week he was gay. Mr Gibb praised his party for championing gay marriage and even said the Church of

The Vice President of the National Convention of the Conservative Party has today declared his support for the ‘Out’ Campaign in a European Referendum, during an exclusive interview with Breitbart London. Having voted to stay in the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1975,