Conservatives: Newark spending £4,000 within legal limit
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.
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.
Britons are showing an increasingly hardline attitude towards immigrants, according to a major new survey of social attitudes.
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).
Several Tories who worked on the Newark by-election told me voters who said they weren’t massive fans of the Conservatives but would vote Tory in the by-election to keep Ukip out.
I just heard the Ukip candidate telling voters running the Tories close would be a great result, which is true, but not what candidates who think they are going to win normally say.
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.
Like Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke and few others in politics, Nigel Farage speaks fluent pub. Can Ed Miliband compete?
So is it payback time for the worst financial crisis in living memory? If so, who was to blame?
A YouGov poll for Channel 4 News finds four-in-five Ukip voters believe the UK was a better place to raise children 20-30 years ago. But is this true? And what do you think?
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.
A new and rather late recruit to the tide of anti-politics joined the baying mob this morning.