A defeated Conservative councillor who lost her seat to the UK Independence Party (Ukip) in Thursday's local elections has launched a scathing attack ...
Former chief whip Andrew Mitchell's bicycle, which was at the centre of the "plebgate" row, has raised £10,600 for charity after it was sold on eBay....
Ukip success in the 2013 local elections was a distinctly family affair in Boston as a mother and two of her daughters won seats. Sue Ransome, 61, ...
As the results of the 2013 local elections come in one thing is clear; Ukip are going to have to be taken seriously. The party of "clowns and fruit...
The United States said it was considering arming the Syrian rebels, as another massacre was reported. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said handing we...
A prominent Tory MP says voters are being turned off by David Cameron's "nudge-nudge wink-wink" approach to policy-making. Zac Goldsmith also said ...
A new type of political tactic is slowly taking shape: the social media trawl. All that information we share or is shared about us - the tweets, comments, likes, photos and so on - is quickly becoming a honey pot of political point scoring and scandal.
I'll let you into a little secret. I pretend to be someone I'm not all day every day, but it's a bigger act than faux diligence at work. I pretend to be a man. No, its not a transgender issue. I mean being a man in the traditional day-seizing, lady-killing, shelf-putter-uppering sense of the word. I'm not bad at pretending, and for the most part, people seem to believe me.
Comparisons between Ukip and the Tea Party were made as early as 2010, when the bible-thumping faction of the Republican Party challenged for seats in the House and the Senate. Both are nationalistic, seek a small government, provide a protest vote and are the underdogs of mainstream politics.
As the Ministry of Defence confirmed that the RAF carried out its first drone strike operated from the UK this week, the question of whether the use o...
The use of drones over the last few years has been immensely damaging. What opponents of drone warfare must now seek to do is ensure that this dark period is treated as an exception and does not become a rule for the future.
I have found in many places traditional voters of different stripes, Labour and particularly Tory, who might not agree with every Green Party policy, but who will be voting Green on Thursday because they value their local Green Party's hard work and community knowledge, and have found their county or unitary council unresponsive, undemocratic, untransparent - and they want shed some Green light on its workings.
I've been asked to speak at the House of Commons to inspire young girls to achieve their dreams. Little old me, still trying to work out the meaning of success till this day, was getting ready to go to Parliament in an initiative backed by Michelle Obama herself, Hackney MP Dianne Abbott and I'mPossible founder Simone Bresi-Ando
There are a number of concerning things about this photo: Nigel Farage's rather red face, his bearded groupies and, perhaps worst of all, his colourfu...
The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is not worthy of the description "fruitcakes and loonies", the leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party's eastern reg...
Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of George Bush declaring the end of combat operations in Iraq. Despite taking measures to avoid saying the phr...
So that's cleared things up. Ukip candidate Alex Wood wasn't making a Nazi salute at all, he was, of course, trying to stop his girlfriend taking p...
It might sound remarkable, but it is 16 years since Mr Tony Blair was elected for the first time to be Prime Minster. Blair will be remembered for ...
Local election skirmishes took a bizarre twist today when the father of a Tory MP was announced as a Ukip candidate, declared he was quitting and chan...
As I stood in the driveway of a seemingly vacant mansion, the bodies around me began to shiver in the cooling air and newly falling drizzle. There was a gentle breeze of hope. The atmosphere was positive, friendly, and constructive, the movement had a sense of confidence.
Plenty of us could name one Ukip policy - and it would most likely involve getting out of the European Union at the earliest opportunity. But what ...
It has not been a good week for Ukip, with several of the Eurosceptic party's candidates finding their political careers coming to an abrupt end after...
The Labour Party has complained of racism about a Lib Dem election leaflet - because it points out the Scottishness of one of its candidates. Lib ...
You have to give credit to George Osborne for getting out there and meeting the voters but one thing is for sure, he looks incredibly awkward in every...
I have a theory about why the anger has gone out of mainstream politics -- and it revolves around television. The telly-box is what the media studies people call a "cool medium" -- it is much kinder to soft-spoken, reasonable people with an ample store of pithy sound-bites than to tub-thumping ideologues who could make themselves heard in the far corners of Trafalgar Square without the aid of a microphone.
