UKIP leader stood down to challenge Speaker John Bercow at the last general election but took over again after replacement Lord Pearson was not seen as a runaway success.

The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today. The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. Th...

Ed Miliband will today (Monday) accuse the Government of directly damaging frontline patient care with its unnecessary and unwanted top-down reorganisation of the NHS. Talking today about frontline pressure right across the NHS, he will point to new figures released by Labour that show the number of NHS nurses has now fallen by 3,500 since the general election and that indicate the total fall in n...

Deputy Prime Minister gave a wide-ranging interview to The House magazine, in which he discusses how it’s right for the two coalition parties to differentiate themselves once a stable government was formed: In the run-up to the general election, you may remember, the tabloids were screaming, saying that if there was a hung Parliament locusts

The bigger issue, however, is whether the bitterness generated over the last week in the hand-to-hand combat between the pair lingers through the remainder of the primaries and into the general election

Barack Obama’s State of the Union can best be described as the president’s biggest speech yet of the 2012 general election

The law should be changed before the next general election to allow anyone queuing at voting stations when polls close to cast their ballot, a report by peers says.

Treasury chief secretary has authorised top salaries to be cut or frozen in 68 cases since the general election.

With a whoop and a holler the Guardian reports that Bjorn Lomborg's climate sceptic think tank is to close. Before anyone tells me, yes I know that "climate sceptic" is not a good description of Lomborg's opinions. The article itself is more accurate. It seems the Danish government cut off funding: ... Denmark's general election last year ushered in a new administration less keen to...

The Republican establishment will be horrified by the Gingrich victory because its members think he is unelectable and tarnished in a general election