Politics

Britain’s election watchdog has announced it will be visiting the Brexit Party headquarters within the next 24 hours and begin an urgent probe of donations to Nigel Farage’s new party. The investigation has been launched just days before the party officially launched in April is tipped to win the most seats in the European Parliamentary elections. The probe comes as the party’s chairman Richard Tice today repeatedly failed to say whether the party was accepting foreign funding and a former...

A loaded Brexit poll posted on the pro-Leave page Britain Bites Back went horribly wrong yesterday after the vast majority of respondents rallied behind a so-called “traitor” option. The poll, which was created on Sunday afternoon, asked Facebook users who they are voting for in the European Elections – UKIP or Brexit or for “Remain like a traitor”. “Both UKIP and the Brexit party should get our vote” in the elections, the post read, but the results went seriously awry...

Nigel Farage has become the latest politician to have been hit by a milkshake while on the campaign trail after been splattered in Newcastle. According to Evening Chronicle reporter Sean Seddon there were chaotic scenes on Northumberland Street as Farage was whisked from the scene by security. He said: "(Farage is) furious. Telling his security “it’s a failure” and “how did that happen”" as he was taken away in a car. The incident comes after police in Edinburgh banned a...

Peers from both the Labour and Conservative parties have advised voters to back the Liberal Democrats in the upcoming European Elections this week. Michael Heseltine announced that he will not back the Conservatives at the European elections and will vote for the Liberal Democrats instead because of their Brexit stance in a strongly-worded article for The Sunday Times. Lord Heseltine said: "I cannot, with a clear conscience, vote for my party when it is myopically focused on forcing through the...

An online bookmaker has slashed the odds on the Brexit Party winning the most seats in the European Elections after taking a £140k punt on the newly-formed party. Star Sports revealed today that it has slashed the price on Nigel Farage’s party winning the most seats on Thursday from 1-20 to 1-66. The customer would win £5,200 if successful, which according to the latest polling data looks likely. A YouGov/Datapraxis poll, commissioned by the pro-remain Best for Britain campaign and...

A tactical voting site targeted at Remain voters has been launched by data scientists in a bid to stop the Brexit Party from running riot in this week’s European elections. Nigel Farage’s newly-formed party looks on track to secure a whitewash in the upcoming election and currently stands on 32 per cent of the vote. Combined with UKIP on 3 per cent that will give them more votes than pro-Remain parties combined, but their efforts could be stifled if voters...

Change UK may not exist as a party in its current form by the time of the next general election, interim leader Heidi Allen has just admitted. Quizzed on BBC Radio 4 Today’s programme after weekend rumours that she might defect to the Liberal Democrats, Allen revealed “the format might be slightly different. I see a modern world of coalition.” This is the strongest hint yet of a coalition with the Lib Dem party. Allen refused to confirm if she...

Burger King has been credited for “joining the anti-fascist resistance” after tweeting that it would still be selling milkshakes in Scotland despite a police-enforced McDonald’s ban on them near a Nigel Farage rally. The firm’s main UK Twitter account – which posted the most ‘liked’ branded tweet of all-time last year when it took down Kanye West – posted to the “people of Scotland” that they would be selling milkshakes all weekend following news that police had ordered a McD’s...

Cross-party Brexit talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have collapsed, it has been confirmed today. The Labour leader told the PM that negotiations have “gone as far as they can” and “we have been unable to bridge important policy gaps between us”. He also pointed to the unstable leadership of the Conservative Party, saying as a leadership contest kicks off "the position of the government has become ever more unstable and its authority eroded". It comes after Hilary Benn,...