uk general election 2015

Middle England ‘Mondeo Man’ could be a member of the British Asian community, a think tank has claimed. New research shows that David Cameron was returned to Number 10 with his unexpected Conservative majority following an increase in support from

Kudos to the Labour politicians, most admirably Ed Balls, who reacted to their party’s incredible defeat with good grace. Others, not so much. Take one well known left-wing tweeter: “Most terrifying of all is the Tories won as the Nasty

GRIMSBY, United Kingdom – UKIP have demonstrated that they are not just the party of dissatisfied Conservatives as the results in North East England show large swings to Nigel Farage’s party. With results declared in Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South

Darlington Council is under fire for leaving off the name of the UKIP candidate on a number of the ballot papers. David Hodgson was missing from 89 ballot papers in the Harrowgate Hill ward of Darlington and was only made

The parents of Sheffield toddler Ollie Wray were surprised to find that their two-year-old is likely to be the UK’s youngest registered voter at today’s general election. The Sheffield Star reports  that Ollie brought his polling card to his father, Andy

GLASGOW, Scotland – Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will today mark the final day of the general election campaign in Edinburgh, making the case for “Scotland’s voice [to be] heard at Westminster more loudly than

British expats hoping to vote in tomorrow’s General Election will be unable to as ballot papers have not been sent out in time. Despite senior politicians, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson, urging Brits abroad to use their vote, reports

Nick Clegg has raised doubts that he would form a second coalition with the Conservatives if an EU referendum was part of the agreement, saying: “I would never, of course, accept being part of a government that advocated withdrawal from the

The final straight of the 2015 general election is here. It has been a long, tiring emotional trip for candidates and the public alike – at least those who care. Sometimes in the rush to the finish line though things

“Eve of poll” is one of the holy days in the liturgical calendar of the political class. It is a red-letter day for politicians, exhausted after weeks of cack-handed lying, evasions and insincere drivel. It signals to them that within

A man in Dorset has been hurt after he was attacked by five men because of the UKIP poster in his garden. Mark Smith was punched in the face by thugs who objected to the 8ft by 4ft poster on

GLASGOW, Scotland – Rife with yellow fever, the Scots are on the verge of giving Labour a mighty kicking on May 7th and party leader Jim Murphy knows it. According to the Scotsman, Labour has drawn up a “rescue package” of vital

The single currency is “irreversible” and freedom of movement within the EU a “basic principle” the European Commission President has said. Jean Claude Juncker told an audience in Belgium that an ailing Greece must stay in the eurozone or “the

A Black day awaits the British constitution and a very puzzling one for those whose misfortune it is to have to foretell the future in the entrails of a general election. The bellwether (and if one’s going to mix one’s

Nicola Sturgeon told party loyalists in Dumfries tonight that the prospect of a hung parliament at Westminster was a major opportunity to push “progressive politics” onto the whole UK. The First Minister pledged that SNP MPs would fight to end

Ed Miliband’s campaign took another bashing last night when former Oasis front man and New Labour supporter Noel Gallagher called him a “f***ing communist”. In an interview with Alan Carr on his ‘Chatty Man’ programme Gallagher, said he hadn’t fallen out

An official complaint has been made to Kent Police about the contents of a BBC One programme broadcast during the election period. Senior advisers to UKIP Leader Nigel Farage have reported the prime time show ‘Have I Got News For

The future career of Margaret Hodge, the prominent Labour Party politician and parliamentary candidate for Barking in next week’s election, is today uncertain as critics accuse her of “hypocrisy” over allegations relating to her personal tax affairs published in The

UKIP supporters are getting their own back on BBC officials who use questionable polling to limit the number of the party’s supporters who appear in the audience on political programmes. Following the leaders’ debates where Nigel Farage called the studio

According to Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck, “next to bombing, rent control is the most effective way to destroy a city.” He might have been talking about London in 2015. Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposed cap on rents isn’t just a

On the first occasion when Anthony Lynton Blair intruded upon my consciousness,  around 1994, it occurred to me I had seen pleasanter objects lying under lampposts during an epidemic of canine dysentery. My subsequent impressions were less favourable. You could

American pollster and statistician Nate Silver has admitted he has “no idea” who will be in power after the general election. Appearing on BBC One’s Panorama show last night, Silver there was “enormous uncertainty” over the outcome of the UK

Whether you believe that Cameron’s Conservatives are tight-fisted Gradgrinds or financial geniuses, there is more to a party and to a country than its economic policy. Widespread prosperity is the cornerstone of any civilised society, but what use is a

The Westminster group leader of the Northern Ireland pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has taken aim at the Conservative’s increasingly strident rhetoric over Scotland and the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), which they claim will damage the Union. Writing for the Guardian

Leading trade unionist Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, has said that the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party could work together if Ed Miliband is Prime Minister after the general election. In doing so he contradicted the Labour

Latest polling data has shown that UKIP leader Nigel Farage is nine points ahead in the constituency of Thanet South with less than two weeks to go until polling day. The numbers put Farage on 39 per cent, nine points

Police in Northumbria are investigating threats made to a UKIP candidate by an angry voter. Newcastle East candidate David Robinson-Young said he had received a call from a man who had told him “you had better f**k off or you

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has joked that he will write Labour’s first budget if the party comes to power after next month’s election. Salmond, who will almost certainly be elected as an MP and may end up leading

A mysterious army of ‘teenage girls’ has been causing waves by releasing ingeniously photo-shopped images of Ed Miliband’s face on the bodies of notable figures from fact and fiction. Mildly entertaining though they are, they don’t seem to have had

There are currently two general elections taking place. The first and more advertised is the fantasy election being conducted within the imagination of the political class, the BBC, the dead-tree press and the vast array of public bodies, quangos and

The last Conservative leader to take the party to a parliamentary majority today intervened in the election campaign with a high profile speech in the West Midlands. Sir John Major presented voters with a stark choice between the party that

Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland would demand a second independence referendum should the UK vote to leave the EU. The SNP leader, whose MEPs sit with the Greens and Welsh nationalists in the European Party to form one of its

Support for the Green Party among students has fallen dramatically since the start of the election campaign, a new poll suggests. The survey of 1,000 full-time students by YouthSight found the Greens’ support on campuses across Britain has fallen from

The Conservatives have ruled out any possibility of a deal with UKIP in the event of a hung Parliament. Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove has dismissed the notion of a coalition, saying that “we’re not going to get into bed

An increasingly confident Nicola Sturgeon is ready to ‘punish’ Westminster for the perceived failure of Scotland to break away from the Union at last year’s independence vote. She said English politicians who begged Scotland to stay should not complain if the

The BBC has confirmed that the hand-picked audience for the opposition leaders’ debate was left leaning, despite claiming otherwise live on air. Out of all the audience members who had declared a party allegiance, only three marked themselves down as