
BNP supporter in court over homophobic attack on Tory candidate
A British National Party supporter faced Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court today charged with attacking an openly-gay Conservative Party local election candidate.

A British National Party supporter faced Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court today charged with attacking an openly-gay Conservative Party local election candidate.

Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. Jon Cruddas has ruled himself out of the running for the Labour leadership. Writing in today’s Guardian, he says: “Hand on heart, I do not want to be leadertest

The Labour Party’s membership has shot up since election day, rising by more than 13,000 to 167,000 – a rise of 8.5 per cent.

Ed Miliband joined his brother David in formally declaring his candidature for the Labour leadership today.

He was from Eton and Oxford, he was from Westminster and Cambridge; they’d flirted with each other for years, and then, finally, it happened.

The BNP candidate filmed kicking and punching a young man on the eve of the election has been arrested on suspicion of assault.

Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. Just days into the new coalition, Tory MPs have expressed doubts over electoral reform, Europe and constitutional change. Today’s Independent reports that “Although the first meeting of the Cabinettest

The decline in the two-party vote, increasing voter disengagement and fewer of marginal seats have all combined to create a system that doesn’t work.

The Liberal Democrat candidate in the delayed Thirsk and Malton election on May 27 has promised a “full-on fight” against the Tories.

Some Liberal Democrats have voiced concern, over the eagerness with which their leaders gave life to a Tory government and the consequences for themselves.