What next for Nigel Farage and his growing Ukip gang?
The three main parties are in tatters after Ukip’s by-election win in Rochester – how far can the “protest vote” go?
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The three main parties are in tatters after Ukip’s by-election win in Rochester – how far can the “protest vote” go?
Labour has won the South Yorkshire crime commissioner by-election – but all three main parties are gloomy about their general election prospects.
David Cameron tells MPs the UK will not pay the extra £1.7bn demanded by the EU, promising to challenge it “in every way possible”.
I hate journalistic hype and exaggeration but could the EU’s sudden demand for Britain to pay an extra £1.7bn be a possible turning point in our political history?
Two of Britain’s top election lawyers say the primary the Tories are holding to pick their candidate for the Rochester by-election could open the result to a legal challenge.
Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide (manslaughter) of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The Conservatives are splashing tens of thousands on a ‘primary’ in Rochester. Good for democracy, or a wheeze for getting around spending rules?
Ukip leader Nigel Farage could appear alongside David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg in a pre-election TV debate. Will he be able to sway young voters?
Analysis of a new poll predicts Ukip could win up to 128 seats at the next general election in 2015. Here’s how – and how seriously to take the results.
Ukip has won its first by-election at the Conservatives’ expense and finished just behind Labour in another parliamentary seat. So is it a case of onwards and upwards for Nigel Farage’s party?
While the Ukip leader Nigel Farage has rightly said he won’t “pretend” to win over women voters, he should perhaps search a little harder for his inner feminist.
By playing it low-key in various by-elections, Labour could be in danger of feeding the Ukip beast, only to find the creature turns round later and bites them too.
…and what about Yorkshire-women? David Cameron’s claim was probably his biggest Tory conference announcement (well, almost), but does it stack up? We asked for your views on Yorkshire’s finest.
They’re waving union jacks in the hall of the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham but in a hectic high-octane three weeks of politics this flag was nearly ditched.
Nigel Farage is against UK air strikes in Iraq – but his deputy chair supports them. This illustrates several things about Ukip.