British Tory cabinet minister Ken Clarke British Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke has described some people intending to vote the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the upcoming local elections as racists. Speaking to Sky News Murnaghan programme on Sunday, the minister without portfolio accused the party of having no positive policies and being merely “against” immigrants and foreigners. Clarke... 

The worldwide Alexa web ranking of the British National Party’s website rose to 3,182 the day after BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. The dramatic leap in web viewership figures shows that the BNP’s website is still by far the most visited political party website in Britain, and possibly the world. The closest competitor is the Tory party site, which at 104,578 does not... 

Thirty years ago, the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan found himself in almost exactly the same predicament Gordon Brown does today. In 1979, the British public finances were in disarray. However, a general election against Margaret Thatcher’s resurgent Tory Party was just round the corner. Callaghan faced a hideous choice: he could come clean about the scale of the problem and make deep and...