Neil Hamilton wouldn’t respond when Channel 4 News asked him today whether the hoped to be Ukip’s candidate in Boston, but he did confirm he does hope to fight some seat at the election.
The Conservatives claim to have spent £96,191 on winning last month’s by-election in Newark, that’s £3,809 below the official spending limit in by-elections of £100,000 per party.
Sanya-Jeet Thandi, 21, who quit Ukip claiming it had “descended into a form of racist populism” visits Gravesend in Kent to find out how she ended up out of step with her former party.
After my brief car park conversation with former Newark MP Patrick Mercer, he scraped an adjacent car as he drove away. A witness to the incident said he’d voted Ukip after voting Tory for 30 years.
Later today, in the town square in Newark, I have an appointment with a gentleman who has promised me that I can rap him over the head with a rolled-up newspaper (a la Godfrey Bloom).
Cathy Newman
MPs with character are few and far between these days. Those who look and speak like a fully paid-up member of the human race tend to find themselves out of government.
Ukip gains at the polls and an eventual exit from the European Union – the prediction of one academic if voter apathy persists among young people in this country.
Gary Gibbon
Like Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke and few others in politics, Nigel Farage speaks fluent pub. Can Ed Miliband compete?
Jon Snow
So is it payback time for the worst financial crisis in living memory? If so, who was to blame?
Following success in the EU elections, Nigel Farage is setting his sights on Westminster – and on next week’s Newark by-election. Are the parties pulling their weight?
Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing other EU leaders to embrace reform following the political “earthquake” that saw eurosceptic parties succeed in the European elections.
Gary Gibbon
A new and rather late recruit to the tide of anti-politics joined the baying mob this morning.
Nigel Farage says Ukip will win seats in the 2015 general election and is now the “third force” in British politics – adding that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s position in now ‘untenable’.
Ukip won hundreds of seats in the local elections, but that may not mean the party will cruise into Westminster in 2015.
Imagine a remake of war film The Way Ahead, but starring an Essex man, a hipster, a Muslim and a gay man.