Politics

A racist who told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” and threatened to kill other MPs over their opposition to Brexit was jailed today. Jarod Kirkman, 51, used a fake email address to target a cross-party selection of prominet "Remain" MPs - including Tory ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan and Labour's Yvette Cooper. Kirkman sent 19 emails telling his victims to “f**k off and die” and that their “days were numbered” between December 4 and January 21. But when...

A second opinion poll this week shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to command the most MEP’s in May’s European Parliament election. Just one week after the official launch of the Brexit Party in Coventry unveiled four of its candidates including Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata and Brexit profiting fund manager Ben Habib, it has topped a second poll of European elections voting intent. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has surged into the lead for the European elections, according to two...

Richard Dawkins has discredited the notion that Brexiteers are giving the “British people what they want” in a scathing tweet. The evolutionary biologist and writer said: “Have you noticed how the very people who keep telling us what we want are the most reluctant to actually find out what we want. “If they are so confident of what the British people want, why are they so terrified of a People’s Vote?” It’s not the first time Dawkins has let his...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there would be “no chance” of US-UK trade deal if Brexit undermines Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement in any way. Speaking at a London School of Economics event the American politician underlined the importance of the so-called “Irish backstop” which ensures the Irish border remains open whatever the outcome of the UK and the EU’s future relationship negotiations. Cross-border cooperation was one of the main agreements included in the Good Friday talks. Frictionless movement was part...

Boris Johnson is at risk of losing his seat in the next general election amid a surge of younger voters. Research by centre-Right think-tank Onward found that constituencies with ratios above 1:1 voters aged 20-39 for 60 pluses were likely to be won by parties other than the Tories, potentially costing them a fourth term at the next election. Some Conservative seats have ratios far higher than the tipping point, suggesting they are vulnerable, the report says. Those include the...

A blog by an ex-project manager has gone viral after it perfectly explained why Brexit has been so impossible to deliver. Russ, who blogs here, used his 22 years’ experience managing projects to summarise how “politically expediency” resulted in false promises in the 2016 referendum that can never be delivered. Using the “Iron Triangle” model – price, schedule, quality- he explains how the “absolutely unbreakable rule” is that you can only have two things from the triangle and never all...

Nigel Farage has bet £1,000 of his own money on his newly formed Brexit Party winning the most seats at the European Parliament Elections on May 23rd. Former UKIP leader Farage claimed to have been already given £750,000 in donations, launching the rival, “similar” but “different” party to UKIP yesterday, branding his former party as “tarnished” by the far right. “I don't think that Middle England, decent people, want to vote for a political party that is linked with extremism,...

The level of support for the Conservatives has plummeted to its lowest level in five years as turbulent Brexit talks and party divisions grip the party. According to the latest polls they have dropped 6 points to 29 per cent this week, meaning Labour now has a 7 point lead with 36 per cent of the vote. This is the lowest the Tories have scored since the European elections in May 2014, almost five years ago, and comes just two...

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has launched his new Brexit Party today, and bookmakers rate his chances of securing the most seats at the European Elections as high. Farage will head the Brexit Party (which sounds like something he hoped to celebrate with red, white and blue bunting last month) to fight to sit as an MEP again in the European Parliament he is campaigning for the UK to leave. But though he’s registered to stand as a European Parliament...