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What Do the UK Independence Party and the Tea Party Have in Common? They Are the Key to the Right's Election Fortunes

Simon Phillips-Hughes | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Politics
Simon Phillips-Hughes

The conservative way to win is to empower people to rise above the labels campaign consultants use. And movements like the UK Independence Party and Tea Party show us the way. Their card carrying numbers may not be huge, but they have altered the balance of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Their approach is simple: care about the pressing issues mainstream politicians and the national media ignore.

UK: BNP Kills Anti-UKIP Meme, Tories to Panic?

Andrew Ian Dodge | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Politics
Andrew Ian Dodge

In a sensational development the British National Party (the UK's neo-Nazi-alike to Greece's Golden Dawn) has denounced the United Kingdom Independence Party as tools of the Jews, sorry Zionists. In this one move the BNP has taken away a major line of attack against UKIP for the UK's Conservative Party and Prime Minister David Cameron.

Iain Duncan Smith, In An Ideal World...

Tiernan Douieb | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Comedy
Tiernan Douieb

As his lips curled around the stained mug and the hot mud water reached his throat, he wished for the umpteenth time that he had never said that he could easily live on £53 a week. Iain did not know exactly how many times he'd wished this. He just knew it was more than he'd had non-tea or abuse bricks thrown through the window.

Parenting Skills Are A Con

Frank Furedi | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Frank Furedi

It seems that everyone believes that parenting classes are wonderful idea - except for the parents.

The NHS Is 'Not Ready' For Controversial Reorganisation

Posted 01.04.2013 | UK

Health experts have issued a stark warning that the NHS is "not ready" on the day that massive changes in the organisation come into effect. The He...

Cameron's Backbench 'Ambassador'?

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.03.2013 | UK Politics

A minister appointed to act as David Cameron's link man to the parliamentary party in a surprise mini-reshuffle insisted the move shows the Prime Mini...

MP 'Forced To Borrow £25,000 From Parents'

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Politics

A Tory MP has complained that was forced to borrow money from his mum and dad because the Commons expenses watchdog is trying to "screw [MPs] into the...

'One Of The Most Unpleasant, Most Stupid Tory MPs'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Politics

As Labour and Conservative MPs chewed over the news that David Miliband is to leave politics to take up a new job with a charity in New York, most spe...

'Tory Education' Twitter Feed Calls Ex Minister A Liar

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK

An extraordinary war of words has broken out between a Conservative former Children's Minister and the "Tory Education" twitter feed. There has...

Take Our Immigration Quiz

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Politics

Talking tough on immigration is the new craze sweeping Westminster, as fear of Nigel 'The Romanians Are Coming' Farage infects the three main parties....

State vs. Parent: The Crowding Out of Choice

Robin Koerner | Posted 24.03.2013 | UK
Robin Koerner

When welfarism fails most spectacularly, it is usually because it attempts to treat a perceived social or economic problem without understanding -- le...

Will The New Government Mortgage Scheme Help Rich Second Home Buyers?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.03.2013 | UK Politics

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has defended the Government's mortgage guarantee scheme, insisting its intention was "not to help peop...

Immigrants Must Live In UK For Five Years Minimum Before Getting Housing

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Politics

Immigrant families will be kept off council house waiting lists for up to five years, under a crackdown being unveiled by David Cameron. The Prime ...

Ed Miliband Warns Of 'Lost Decade'

Posted 25.03.2013 | UK

Ed Miliband has claimed Britain could slide into a "lost decade" because of the government's economic policies. The Labour leader warned that publi...

'Cameron, Clegg and Miliband All Look The Same'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.03.2013 | UK

Ukip leader Nigel Farage insisted the party could win votes from across the political spectrum as he rallied activists on Saturday. Speaking at the...

The Royal Charter for the Regulation of the Press

Olly Lennard | Posted 18.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Olly Lennard

After much toing and froing a deal has finally been struck between the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party regarding press regulation. Nick Clegg and Ed Milliband's proposal has been scrapped, and both have claimed a substantial victory.

Exploitative Workfare Scheme Was a Disaster - Now the Government Must Pay the Price of Failure

Caroline Lucas | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Politics
Caroline Lucas

By failing to vote against this Bill, Labour is effectively supporting the Government and indicating that it, like David Cameron's administration, sees no problem in bringing in emergency legislation to overturn a court's findings when it goes against them.

The DWP Is Guilty of Incompetence on an Industrial Scale

Liam Byrne | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Politics
Liam Byrne

The chaos at DWP knows no bounds. They've given us a Work Programme worse than doing nothing. Universal Credit is descending into universal chaos. And now the department has bodged its regulations so badly that a Court of Appeal judgement has struck down its general power to issue sanctions of any kind shape or form. Incredible.

Osborne To Wield Axe Again And Impose Extra £2.5bn Of Cuts

PA | Posted 20.03.2013 | UK Politics

George Osborne will use tomorrow's Budget to impose a further £2.5 billion of cuts on Whitehall, with the proceeds to be invested in capital projects...

Another Poll Blow For Tories

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.03.2013 | UK Politics

The Conservatives have suffered more grim opinion poll news after a surge by the UK Independence Party ate into its support and increased Labour's lea...

'Gibraltar', a New Play: a Look at 'Death On The Rock' 25 Years On

Jason Holmes | Posted 11.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Jason Holmes

Gibraltar is a play concerned with the military operation conducted on 6 March 1988 on Gibraltar

Tory Chairman: We Could Lose The Next Election

Posted 15.03.2013 | UK Politics

The Tories may not win the next general election, party chairman Grant Shapps has publicly conceded. Shapps said the Conservatives would have to sh...

Cameron Pleads For Unity Amid Leadership Speculation

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.03.2013 | UK Politics

David Cameron and key strategist Lynton Crosby issued a plea for unity to Tory MPs on Tuesday night, warning they need to be careful what they post on...

Jockeying For Position

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 12.03.2013 | UK Politics

Rumours abound in the political world of a number of plots to replace David Cameron as Conservative leader. Saddled with paranoia, the prime minist...

Fox in the Running?

Rob Atkinson | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK Politics
Rob Atkinson

Liam Fox might of course be entirely serious about making an early move to be seen as prospective leader material - if the reaction of the Tories, post coalition break-up, were to be a lurch to the Right. But it's also tiresomely probable that he's simply providing the necessary scare story, which can then be shot down by the incumbent PM, so that Cameron's rigid position on his chosen course of austerity might be seen as more palatable relative to What Might Have Been.