Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union President, has boasted of being a "better Briton" than Nigel Farage after the Ukip MEP insulted him.

I'm in the process of writing two European related articles at the moment, one on the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering for TOTAL POLITICS, and the second one on the leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage for GQ. On Monday week I'm off to spend a couple of days in Strasburg to interview them both. The Nigel Farage profile will be quite lengthy and personal. It will also loo...

A YouGov survey for the TaxPayers Alliance and Global Vision puts UKIP core support at 7% for the Euro-vote on 4 June. "This poll shows that our support is double what is was at this stage of the electoral cycle last time," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP. "That means we can look forward to the people of Britain finally being able to have their say. "On the issue of the European Union, UKIP is o...

Ed DaveyEdward Davey is writing to UKIP Leader Nigel Farage challenging him to publish his MEPs’ expense claims and to account for their shameful record of voting for perks and secrecy in the European Parliament. When Nigel Farage first went to Brussels, he promised to publish his accounts annually ‘so the public can inspect them', but since then neither he nor his UKIP collea...

He openly enjoys his booze, lapdancing and MEP's allowance, and yet his party is enjoying a renaissance. No wonder Ukip's leader is smiling Nigel Farage is stuck in traffic, so his Ukip colleagues provide the entertainment. There's John Gill, the office junior who looks alarmingly like Joy Division's Ian Curtis and whose grandfather, Tory MP Christopher Gill, was one of the ori...

Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party MEP, has confirmed he is standing for the party's leadership.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP will be on the panel for Question Time on BBC1 this Thursday, 6 November, at 10.35 pm. In the midst of a financial crisis and economic recession and in the wake of the US election, he will have plenty to talk about.

Speculation is mounting that UKIP could beat Labour in tonight's European elections. Would that be curtains for Gordon? Could it really be Nigel Farage who does for Gordon Brown? What a delicious thought that is. Nigel Farage will be on the programme tonight between 6 and 7pm hopefully.

Richard North has delivered his take on Nigel Farage's present situation. There are strong rumours that our Nigel has overstayed his welcome in Brussels and that the forces of darkness are not a million miles from feeling his collar, making his continued tenure as an MEP expensive and increasingly insecure. Reinventing himself as a Westminster MP – his lower salary fortified by his MEP ...

According to the BBC, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is to throw his hat into the ring and attempt to get his old job back. The position became vacant last month when Lord Pearson stood down, admitting with surprising honesty that he wasn’t up to the job. Farage’s decision may have been prompted by suspicions