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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

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

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

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

Britain’s Conservative Party has launched an unprecedented attack on a prominent conservative activist following allegations that an organisation named ‘Conservative Grassroots’ is attempting to “pass itself off” as officially linked to the political party. Breitbart London understands that a legal

Local UKIP activists in South Thanet have been quoted in the Financial Times saying that Nigel Farage will run for the seat at the 2015 General Election. In July Breitbart London exclusively revealed that Farage had been forced to delay his

“Eton is a four letter word.” I can’t remember which massively successful Old Etonian actor said that – there are so many: Eddie Redmayne, Harry Lloyd, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Damian Lewis – but whichever of the gazillions it was

Over at the Guardian, John Harris writes that, despite apparently having gone quiet, UKIP still poses a significant electoral threat to the Labour Party. Analysis by Lord Ashcroft shows that UKIP is now the most popular party in two key

The UK Independence Party has won a local council by-election in the southern English town of Worthing, defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrats. The Worthing Herald reports that the election was called after Lib Dem councillor David Potter was expelled for

Yesterday’s news that London Mayor Boris Johnson is to run for Parliament in 2015 was greeted with widespread delight amongst Conservatives, including Prime Minister David Cameron. His move would seem inexplicable without reading polls that show 20 percent of UKIP

Bookmakers, pollsters and increasingly Conservative commentators are coming to the conclusion that the Tories are going to be out of office in nine months’ time. Yet despite almost everything pointing to a Tory defeat at next year’s general election, the

Support for the UK Independence Party remains steady despite many having previously claimed that Nigel Farage’s party would fall back to smaller support levels on the run up to the UK General Election. But nine months away from the vote,

Labour Member of Parliament Paul Flynn has criticised Conservative MPs for taking a trip to Israel and visiting military facilities.  According to the Guardian, Flynn claims:  “It is insensitive when people are being slaughtered in such numbers and going out

Labour bosses have claimed that UKIP voters will propel their party to victory at next year’s General Election, according to the Daily Telegraph. The party says that if UKIP poll over 9 percent, they will cost the Conservatives enough seats

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has come under fire from UKIP’s North Eastern Member of the European Parliament Jonathan Arnott after repeatedly mixing up two very distinct areas of Britain in a radio interview. Speaking to BBC Tees, the Prime

John Bercow has had a rather difficult year. Twelve months ago, the Speaker of the House of Commons suffered public humiliation at the hands of Conservative MPs, who passed to the press physical evidence of so-called “Bollocked By Bercow” badges

The town of Reus in the Catalan province of Tarragona has become the first in Spain to ban the wearing of full-face veils in public, a move which follows a judgment on July 1 by the European Court of Human

Understandably, recent British headlines have been dominated by Prime Minister David Cameron’s sweeping and divisive reshuffle of his cabinet, just ten months away from a General Election that could turn into one of the bloodiest in history. Neither the traditional

Last weekend Michael Gove was down in Portsmouth. Just two days earlier he had seen more than a fifth of his schools closed by strikes, but the then Education Secretary found the time to lead a road trip of young

Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, today was elected as the new president of the European Commission by majority vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It marked the final triumph of Brussels-insider Juncker, who endured smears as

Charles Clarke, a former Home Secretary under Tony Blair has said that Ed Miliband who lose the next election as he has no “narrative”. He believes that the Conservatives will win an overall majority next year and that Miliband is

An opinion poll by YouGov for the Sunday Times found that supports of the Conservative Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats all wanted Germany to win last night’s World Cup final, with UKIP supporters saying they would support neither side.

Nigel Farage has hinted at how a deal between the Conservatives and UKIP at the 2015 general election might work. He suggested a “potentially intelligent approach” would be for the Conservatives to offer UKIP a free run in twenty to

MPs on the UK’s Treasury Select Committee have accused tax authorities of riding roughshod over the Magna Carta, with their new powers to empty members of the public’s bank accounts with little scrutiny. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) say they

A senior Conservative has talked of his “despair” that the party is negative about Trade Unions, according to the Huffington Post. Guy Opperman, the MP for Hexham in Northumberland, told a conference of left-leaning Conservatives that “unions are not terrible”

Ed Vaizey, the Conservative Minister for Culture, has praised the British Film Institute (BFI) for demanding ethnic minority, women and gay quotas on the films they finance. BFI is the largest funder of films in the UK, and from September

We are all lizards now. Or at least, if you are a journalist working in Westminster, that’s what it seems most of the internet thinks this week. Since the alleged establishment paedophile ring was blown open over the weekend, culminating

Some people are just bloody idiots and you can’t do a thing about, can you? It’s true. And I say it out of love for them really, because they account for a significant part of why I get out of

Watch what he does, not what he says: even while Prime Minister David Cameron was in the Commons this week accepting praise from his eurosceptic backbenchers for the way he “stood up for British interests” at the European Council on