As a former Conservative minister warns of the 'aggressive homosexual community', a savage beating of a gay couple in a South London park shows us just how much further we need to go in creating an equal and tolerant society.

The grey vote is often assigned wholesale to the Tories - the old, we are told, are inherently conservative, natural backers of austerity, unwilling to take any cuts to their own benefits to help the young. Yet this may not be the case.

I wonder whether the people who have created a monster ever come to regret it? It's a question as relevant to UKIP's Nigel Farage as it is to one of o...

David Cameron is under pressure after a member of his top team allegedly branded Tory supporters 'swivel-eyed loons'. The phrase, which Tory co-cha...

Pressure continued to mount on the Conservative leadership over claims an ally of David Cameron described grassroots activists as "mad, swivel-eyed lo...

Lord Howe, former foreign secretary, has claimed David Cameron is losing control of his party as the Conservatives' "long, nervous breakdown" over Eur...

Support for the UK Independence Party has reached a record 19%, according to a poll which saw both Labour and the Tories losing ground. Labour was dow...

Lord Feldman, the co-chairman of the Conservative Party, has denied describing grassroots activists as "swivel-eyed loons". The senior Tory said he wa...

As Westminster waits for the announcement of the identity of the foot-in-mouth Tory who claimed Conservative grassroots were 'mad swivel-eyed loons', ...

UPDATE: Andrew Feldman has denied making 'mad swivel-eyed loons' comments and is seeking legal advice. A top Tory has labelled Conservative grass...

On close inspection, Ukip's policies are startlingly similar to the Tea Party's. They want to cut taxes by £90bn, but mostly for the rich, introducing a single flat tax of 31%, that will see millionaires pay the same tax rates as their cleaners.

Goldhawk Road in West London, is renowned for its terraced row of independent, family-run fabric shops. "This is where fashion starts on Goldhawk Road," said Aniza Meghani, owner of the Classic Textiles fabric shop, with the Lime Grove campus of the London College of Fashion located a block away.

"What would you do," asks Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, "if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?" That is just one of many questions that must be running through David Cameron's head right about now.

They may not quite be clad in black leather, astride a motorbike, but when it comes to MPs, the British public love a rebel. Even the most rogue MP...

Scottish independence could cement the Conservative Party's hold on Westminster, according to Labour. Scottish deputy leader Anas Sarwar said indep...

A Cabinet Minister has claimed Nick Clegg is only opposing childcare reforms to head off a campaign to oust him as Liberal Democrat leader. In an e...

Ed Miliband is to accuse David Cameron of putting efforts to hold the Tory party together ahead of the national interest, pointing to the referendum o...

Now the 'send in the clowns' shtick has gone stale, it's now time to send in the 'political has-beens'. If either Michael Portillo or Alan Johnson remained on the front-line of British politics, their respective parties would be far more likely to win the next general election.

David Cameron faces a fresh assault on his authority from a group of rebel Tory MPs attempting to force a Commons vote over a referendum on the UK's E...

Cameron appears to have frantically scribbled the policy on a napkin as he watched the local election results come in. Since his party's woeful performance, he has suddenly become more jittery about immigration than Captain Hook was about ticking clocks.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo has become the latest Tory heavyweight to argue that Britain should leave the European Union - a...

The route to electoral success Ukip used was to paint the picture of imaginary or exaggerated problems and depict themselves as the only party to fix them. The EU drains the country of £53m a day, said their manifesto. Throwing around huge figures without any context is a guaranteed way to rally the irate. The fact is that it is not £53m a day.

A Bill to curb migrants' rights and make it easier to deport foreign nationals will be at the heart of the Queen's Speech at the start of a new parlia...

Deputy Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has denied accusations of raping and assaulting two young men saying the allegations were "completely false". Th...