Ukip’s first MP, Bob Spink, found guilty of electoral fraud
Former Conservative and Ukip MP Bob Spink has been found guilty of tricking people into signing nomination papers for last year’s local elections. … Read the full post »
Read about the travails of Britain’s controversial anti-European, anti-immigration party, UKIP and its sometime leader Nigel Farage. It was founded in 1993.
Former Conservative and Ukip MP Bob Spink has been found guilty of tricking people into signing nomination papers for last year’s local elections. … Read the full post »
Ukip no longer has majority control of any local councils after a defection deprived the troubled party of its majority on Thanet District Council. … Read the full post »
Surrey councillor Christine Elmer said she found it “impossible to be a member of the Conservative party” and had joined the the Lib Dems. … Read the full post »
“I don’t want increased child care. Women with small children should stay home,” says Ukip election candidate Gisela Allen. … Read the full post »
Labour has won a seat uncontested in St Edmundsbury after Ukip’s nomination papers were ruled out due to a fatal legal error. … Read the full post »
After the promising portents for the Liberal Democrats ahead of May’s big round of local elections, and the very bad news for Ukip, this week’s council by-elections bring… … Read the full post »
Now that nominations are closed, numbers can be crunched for how many seats each party is contesting, along with how this compares with last time. … Read the full post »
Former Conservative MP Bob Spink, who defected to Ukip and became its first MP, has been charged with electoral fraud. … Read the full post »
A police source said that files were expected to be sent to the Crown Prosecution Service within weeks about Conservative election expenses and possible fraud. … Read the full post »
Why is a strange network of Twitter accounts, usually the source of pro-Russian messages, now pumping out tweets about a very specific British election?
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