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Forty years ago, if someone died in police custody under mysterious circumstances, or felt they had been the victim of police brutality, or felt they had been wrongly arrested, complaints were handled by the police force concerned themselves.  Following a

Nigel Farage has explained that his party’s recent surge in popularity is because they have moved from being “high Tory” and “very middle class” to being popular amongst working class voters. The comments came in a debate at Chatham House

A survey has shown that around one in five Conservative Party Members support Scottish independence. YouGov asked 900 party members which of the following two comments they agreed with:  I want Scotland to become an independent country, and leave the

A journalist for the Daily Mail who is “proud of his own civil partnership”, has argued that the same-sex marriage legislation which came into force in the United Kingdom today does “not advance the cause of equality”.  Andrew Pierce said

David Cameron has said that, to his “regret”, he is unable to relax the ban on hunting with hounds during this parliament. He told MPs yesterday that the coalition had been unable to agree on an amendment that would allow

Amidst the soap opera of Boris vs George vs Theresa and Gove, it would appear that a fervent debate is taking place in the Conservative Party as to the future of its leadership, in the event of the party not

The BBC is no stranger to accusations of left-wing political bias but Newsnight’s new Economics Correspondent may be the most controversial appointment yet. Predictably, Duncan Weldon is a former Labour adviser, who currently works at the Trades’ Union Congress, but

I like Owen Jones. Sure, he’s cocky and mouthy, and I don’t think I agree with a word he orates about economics, politics or social justice. But, just like the late insurgent Bob Crow – who also had no time

Just as Lord Tebbit was telling me last night that the Conservative Party chairmanship was being mishandled… the Conservative Party chairmanship was being mishandled. The reactions to Grant Shapps and Tory HQ’s patronising post-budget graphic have covered all the satirical

Labour leader Ed Miliband was mad at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). He was ‘John McEnroe mad’ – and there was general unhappiness with Putin’s Crimea annexation and the way mental health services are treated in the NHS.  On Putin,

Iain Dale: Two weeks ago I hosted a debate on Ukraine between Tory MP Brooks Newmark and former Kremlin advisor Alexander Nekrassov. Today I hosted Round 2. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

On today’s BBC Daily Politics programme, europhile Tory MP Laura Sandys claimed that her party leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, was a ‘Euro-Realist’.  Sandys’s remarks may be taken with a pinch of salt given that she called Prime Minister Thatcher

The BBC’s appointment of a Labour candidate as the new economics editor of its flagship politics show has provoked genuine anger in the Conservative Party. Sources at Tory HQ reacted not with faux outrage but actual bewilderment at how a

Liberal Democrat party big hitters and activists put on their best socks and sandals and came together this weekend to attempt to build momentum for the May European elections. Their conference was dominated by a man who wasn’t even there…

Former Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit has called for his party to make pact with the UK Independence Party. Speaking to the Times, the party grandee said that the Conservatives should stop “abusing” former voters who have gone over to

It was in the Brooklyn GOP Radio party on Saturday night that the Brits and Europeans who ventured to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) really made their mark. Okay that’s probably not fair, since Daniel Hannan, Syed Kamall and others

The former deputy speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, Nigel Evans MP, stands accused a string of sexual assaults over a ten year period. The former Conservative Member of Parliament strenuously denies the allegations, but the prosecution has laid out

I tend to disagree with most of the reasons people put forward for why they don’t like UKIP. The party is racist, they say. Yes of course it has far too many members with horrible views, but I do think

Labour MP Joan Walley is urging a raid on the balance sheets of UK businesses that hold fossil fuels, according to a document seen by Breitbart London today. In a speech due to be delivered in the City of London

An opinion poll reported in today’s Daily Mail reveals new information about the average UK voter. It shatters the view of UKIP as a party purely for disaffected Tories, with supporters more likely to be working class retirees from the Midlands. The

This weekend the Labour Party held its so-called ‘special conference’, organised to give delegates a vote on a series of reforms concerning the party’s relationship with trade unions. Members travelled from across the country to the conference hall in East

The former UK Defence Secretary and senior Conservative party figure Dr. Liam Fox has urged Prime Minister David Cameron to ditch his unachievable pledge to lower net migration into the UK.  Fox – speaking after new figures revealed the government’s

UK Independence Party Treasurer Stuart Wheeler has revealed that seven sitting Conservative MPs have met with him to talk about defecting. In an interview with the Telegraph, Mr Wheeler said that he wrote to nine Eurosceptic MPs, asking each of

A long-standing billionaire donor to the Conservative Party was yesterday confirmed to have ceased his backing for David Cameron’s party after the Tories championed the same-sex marriage bill in July last year. Hedge fund owner Sir Michael Hintze is said

Nothing illustrates the utter delusion of the Conservative Party more than their recent bid to re-brand as the “workers’ party”.  Having finally realised that chasing green-loving hipsters in the name of Cameroonism wasn’t a winner, the Tories have launched a

In May 2012, major Conservative donor and LGBT activist Ivan Massow wrote an article making the case that the Conservative Party had nothing to fear in discarding social conservatism, because its advocates in the party had nowhere else to go.

David Cameron has let it be known to the sympathetic media that “he’s very clear, he doesn’t want to another Coalition” come the next parliamentary term. Just how seriously should we take this claim? About as seriously as we would

The Conservative Party is engaging in yet another major rebranding exercise, just one election cycle after David Cameron’s ‘detoxification’ strategy failed to win the party a majority in 2010. Today, Grant Shapps delivers a speech alongside Sir John Major, echoing

The UK Labour Party’s favourite attack line against the Conservatives at the moment is not dissimilar to the Democrats’ usual anti-Republican line: the suggestion that the Tories have a “problem” with women. At Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) earlier this month,

Britain has six “fully Islamic” banking organisations and government minsters are attempting to attract even more Sharia-compliant finance initiatives to the UK. The announcement over the six “wholly Sharia compliant banks” came last October, but a new push to attract

Living in a Labour area is demonstrably bad for your wallet, your education, and means you’re more likely to be on benefits, a data analysis has revealed. Lee Jenkins at the libertarian Backbencher blog has run a basic analysis of

Lord Deben, the well-known Tory green, has said that Christians cannot support the UK Independence Party. Responding to a piece by Rev. Sam Norton on why he supports UKIP, Lord Deben said that it was “impossible to understand a clergyman

The decision by David Cameron to block the right of constituencies to recall their MPs in cases of wrongdoing has been much debated in the UK over the past week.  It echoes a feeling that has been building about Parliament

On the 22nd of April, a Cambridgeshire man will stand in court to face a five-year prison term over which he will have no legal defence. In an era where burglars, rapists and even murderers often escape with lesser sentences,