Farage sinks a pint… and a party’s hopes?
Ukip’s success at the polls threatens the Conservatives, but also poses a bigger challenge to Labour and the Liberal Democrats than previously thought.
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Hedge fund manager Lord Fink talks about his plans for huge charity parties and the Conservative party’s ructions over Europe.
Ukip’s success at the polls threatens the Conservatives, but also poses a bigger challenge to Labour and the Liberal Democrats than previously thought.
If anyone knows the workings of Boris Johnson’s mind, it’s Jo Johnson, new head of No.10’s policy unit. But Johnson Minor’s instincts on Europe are not quite the same as his brother’s.
The Conservative party, past and present, has often seemed bitterly divided about European integration, the threat of open national borders and the free movement of people throughout the EU.
David Miliband tells Channel 4 News his decision to step down as an MP to take up an international charity role based in New York is the right decision for him and the Labour party.
Cross-party talks on proposed reforms to press regulation have broken down after Prime Minister David Cameron told the other party leaders that the gap between them was too great.
Nick Clegg insists the Liberal Democrats are no longer a party of protest as he urges activists to attack the Tories.
The most dramatic story in Eastleigh has been Ukip – the party looks set to achieve its highest ever vote in a Westminster election, surpassing the 21.7 per cent it got in Rotherham last year.
While David Cameron has been keen to detoxify his party since he became leader in 2005, the Conservative’s campaign literature in Eastleigh suggests a different message.
What used to be a broad church has become a schismatic one and after Mitt Romney’s defeat civil war could be looming for the Republicans.
“Click on the document and read beyond the first page and you find that the statisticians immediately pull the rug out from under the Tories’ headline.”
“My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive” – so said Boris Johnson in 2004.
They chant, hand out apples and ambush delegates – but is anyone listening? Channel 4 News speaks to the protesters taking their battles to the Conservative Party conference.
It is the story of a mid-western state that has undergone a tumultuous conversion, from a laid back, progressive liberal vibe, to a virulent conservatism, writes Felicity Spector.
Accounts for the political parties published today by the Electoral Commission show a fall in membership for the Liberal Democrats. But Michael Crick writes that Labour has little to cheer about either.