Whether Scotland votes for independence or not, the referendum has fired up debate in the rest of the United Kingdom over London’s dominance and the historic ties that hold the country together. From Northern Ireland to Wales and even within
British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama are today expected to prepare plans for a further air strikes against ISIS, with the possibility that Britain may join American forces in bombing the extremists. The Daily Mail reports
Today, a leaked EU document crushed David Cameron’s hopes for an important economic portfolio for his EU Commission nominee, Lord Hill. It will come as a shock to some, given the claims in today’s Telegraph that Lord Hill could get a junior
British immigration officials have admitted they have no idea of the whereabouts of 50,000 illegal immigrants, effectively granting them a “de facto amnesty”. Immigration enforcement officials are also not even looking for most of them due to limited resources, leading
LOS ANGELES – A new startup hopes to wrest control of the political system from special interests and place political power back into the hands of voters this November. Crowdpac, based in Menlo Park, California, provides a unique, comprehensive database
British Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK government will not pay any ransom to the ISIS militants who are holding a British hostage. Speaking ahead of the Nato summit in Wales, the Prime Minister said that it was
David Cameron’s anti-terror plans have come under attack following claims he made the announcement on Monday simply to distract from the news of Conservative MP Douglas Carswell joining UKIP. Labour MP Ian Austin, who is a member of the House
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been making bold, statesman-like noises about Islamic State and President Putin this week. Well, of course he has. It’s what desperate leaders always do when their domestic policies and popularity ratings are tanking. Unfortunately,
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has gone from being a fringe force to within touching distance of taking Scotland independent from Britain, its defining purpose, in 15 years. The SNP has driven the campaigns first for a referendum and then
As analysts and politicians pore over the implications of the new anti-terror measures announced by David Cameron on Monday, a columnist in London’s Times newspaper has called them “bungled” and said they simply look like “an attempt merely to grab
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday condemned an Islamic State video apparently showing a militant beheading of a second US reporter and threatening to kill a British captive as “disgusting”. He said it was an “absolutely disgusting, despicable act”
Transcript as follows: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday warned that his country needs new counter-terrorism tools to confront a threat currently assessed as “severe.” Mr. Cameron described “the root cause of this threat” as “a poisonous ideology of Islamist
The parents of young brain tumour sufferer Ashya King could be at his bedside within the next few hours as prosecutors have now dropped extradition proceedings against the couple. The Spanish Court which was processing the case will need to
Labour would allow terrorists back to the UK, opposing plans announced yesterday by David Cameron to refuse to allow British nationals who engage in terrorism to come back to the country. The comments came from a spokesperson for Shadow Home
LONDON (AP) — U.K. prosecutors are withdrawing the arrest warrant in the case of a British couple who took their 5-year-old son out of the country in hopes of getting a new type of radiation therapy for his brain tumor.
With the first Tory MP having defected to UKIP in Douglas Carswell and many others now bailing out of the 2015 fight altogether, the Conservative Party appears to increasingly resemble a nervous wreck and David Cameron seems to be losing
The Telegraph’s Dan Hodges, sometimes notionally on the left, sometimes drastically on the left, has today used his newspaper column to call for a public inquiry into why Muslims in Britain are failing to integrate – but the fault is apparently
The Clacton By-Election will take place on Thursday 9th October, the BBC reports. The timing of polling day is significant as it is a week after Conservative Party conference, which is expected to give David Cameron a poll bounce. It
America should follow the British in taking passports away from citizens who fight for ISIS, says Scott Brown who is currently neck and neck in the Republican Senate Primary in New Hampshire. Brown applauded Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) – A plan to build a major new airport to the east of London was rejected by a government-appointed commission on Tuesday, dealing a blow to its high-profile backer, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson. The Airports Commission said
It is difficult to envy David Cameron. The first prime minister in recent memory to suffer the ignominy of governing in coalition, Cameron’s chance of achieving a Conservative majority at the second time of asking are almost nil. The odds
LONDON (AP) — The parents say they want to give their 5 year-old-boy with a brain tumor the best chance to live with a revolutionary new treatment they learned about on the Internet. Their British hospital says the boy has
The UK government is ready to fight the courts over fears they could strike down historic powers to withdraw British passports from those accused of terrorism. The Royal Prerogative gives the Queen – or in practice her government – a
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to combat terrorism, despite admitting that the new measures could be challenged – and potentially over-ruled – in the courts. The measure include plans to to introduce a law that will prevent
The British government has been trying to play down a rift between the two coalition parties over new counter-terrorism measures that are due to be announced this afternoon. Ten Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister, said that
London could be the scene of a Mumbai-style terrorist “spectacular” if Islamist jihadists get their way, British security chiefs have warned. There is growing concern that a list of “soft” targets is being drawn up, and that weapons and explosives
Conservative lawmakers could pledge to support Britain leaving the European Union, irrespective of what powers are returned to London from Brussels, The Independent reports. The report underlines the growing pressure facing Prime Minister David Cameron as he contends with the
Eurosceptic Conservative Party Member of Parliament Chris Kelly is to stand down in 2015, following rumours that he might have been the next MP to defect to UKIP after Douglas Carswell’s crossing of the floor earlier this week. Kelly, who
A leading Conservative MP has said that British Prime Minister David Cameron would win a vote in Parliament on bombing ISIS. The Daily Mail says that Sir Richard Ottaway, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said that a majority
Nigel Farage and UKIP’s newest party member Douglas Carswell MP looked like a honeymooning couple on the prom as they undertook their first walk about in Clacton today. Officially, Carswell is the UKIP underdog in the by-election but if today
British Prime Minister David Cameron attacked multiculturalism, and declared adherence to “British values” a “duty” in his statement on the threat of ISIS on Friday. Cameron did say that “Britain is an open, tolerant, and free nation. We are a
On Friday, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron described the grave threat posed by the Islamic State that needed to be rooted out and destroyed. Cameron announced that the United Kingdom raised the terror threat level to “severe” after conferring
The following text is from Douglas Carswell MP’s website TalkCarswell.com and is the full text of the speech he delivered yesterday, announcing his defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP: I’m today leaving the Conservative party and joining UKIP. This
Early today Douglas Carswell defected to UKIP based on their track records Breitbart London now assesses which Conservative MPs might be next. Adam AfriyieThe MP for Windsor has long dreamed of leading the Conservative Party but has been ostracized by
British Prime Minister David Cameron heads to Scotland Thursday to make the business case for it remaining part of Britain as 200 business leaders signed an open letter backing independence. Questions over whether Scotland’s economy could go it alone have
Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Teresa May face embarrassment today as independent figures revealed that Britain’s net migration has jumped from 175,000 to 243,000 over the past year. The jump, despite a pledge by the Conservative Party to
Following accusations that Europe’s new executive commission is “mostly being men from right-wing parties”, the new President of Europe has warned member nations to reconsider their commissioner nominations. Female commissioners would take top priority for the more prestigious jobs such
Nigel Farage has been formally selected as UKIP candidate for South Thanet in the 2015 General Election. The appointment ends months of waiting, which was caused because UKIP insisted on selecting after they knew who the Conservative candidate was, and
The Christian faith is being pushed out of public life, former attorney general Rt Hon Dominic Grieve has said, adding “Clearly it happens at a level of local power… In my view it’s very undesirable.” In an interview with The
