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Kinnock: ‘Flamboyant’ Blair not the president we wanted

20.11.09
Video: European leaders were right to reject Tony Blair’s 'flamboyance' for little-known Belgian, former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said... more

Londoners must join forces for the Battle of Barking to stop BNP

16.11.09
Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity... more

Cameron branded ‘pathetic’ as Tory duo quit over U-turn

05.11.09
David Cameron hit by two Tory resignations and denounced as 'pathetic' and 'autistic' by the French foreign minister over his new policies on Europe... more

Army generals condemn BNP for 'hijacking' military images

20.10.09
Former military heavyweights joined forces to warn that the Armed Forces were in danger of being hijacked by far right groups... more

David Miliband: Tories turn blind eye to EU ‘Nazi’ friends

01.10.09
David Miliband accused the Tories of condoning Nazism as he attacked David Cameron’s new European partners... more

Tory rebels over new Europe party

15.07.09
David Cameron was hit by in-fighting in his new European Right-wing grouping... more

Greens are London's biggest winners as Labour plunges to fifth in suburbs

08.06.09
Labour suffered a humiliating rout in the European elections as it was pushed into fifth places in dozens of areas around Britain - although it clung on to second in London... more

This anti-Europe spasm will take Britain nowhere

08.06.09
The Euro-sceptics’ triumph will not lead to withdrawal – just impotence, warns a former Europe minister ... more

Europe casts its vote

04.06.09
Polling stations are open today between 7am and 10pm... more

Nervous wait for Brown as future hangs in balance

04.06.09
Gordon Brown faces a nail-biting wait which could see him propelled from Number 10 in the wake of a voter backlash at the polls... more

Cameron: PR would aid BNP

02.06.09
David Cameron hit back at Health Secretary Alan Johnson's call for voting reform, warning that it could hand real power to the racist British National Party... more

Shamed MEPs to receive part of £20 million pay-off

02.06.09
Three MEPs accused of abusing their expenses will be paid hundreds of thousands of pounds as part of a £20 million retirement package for British MEPs... more

Don’t back a vote system that will let in the BNP

02.06.09
Proportional representation may sound like a fair and effective system but it's anything but... more

Lumley: The Green Party is the obvious choice in poll

27.05.09
Joanna Lumley is urging voters to shun mainstream politicians and instead back the Greens in next week’s Euro elections... more

I'll restore the balance of our lunatic fringe

20.05.09
Opinion polls: Love Them or Hate Them or Don't Know or Other, there are an enormous number of them around at the moment... more

BNP City Hall official meets neo-fascists at Euro summit

14.04.09
A British National Party official at City Hall came under fire after he attended a conference where European neo-fascists gave Nazi salutes... more

Gilts: another reason to worry

26.03.09
THE Prime Minister's attempt to co-ordinate a global response to the downturn at the G20 summit in London has already taken him this week to the European Parliament and the United Nations in New York... more

Mr King rains on the PM's parade

25.03.09
THE PRIME MINISTER has let it be known that he "does not recognise" reports of a split between him and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about the shape of the Government's rescue of the economy... more

French minister Dati sacked three weeks after birth of daughter

23.01.09
French justice minister Rachida Dati has been sacked from Nicolas Sarkozy's government 21 days after giving birth... more

Trapped in hotel room with bombs all around

27.11.08
Britons trapped in Mumbai hotels told today of their terror as gun battles continued to rage around them. ... more

Time to act together on rates

07.10.08
A cut by the MPC acting on its own, though welcomed, would quickly be forgotten in the current market climate... more

Goodbye, boys... Eva Herzigova may have to cover up as the EU pulls the plug on 'sexist' TV commercials

05.09.08
The end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels. ... more

EU court plan 'infringes UK legal rights'

03.09.08
British subjects could be convicted in their absence in foreign courts under EU plans, it emerged... more

Tory MEPs told to publish expenses or face ban

23.06.08
The Tory leader has threatened to oust Conservative MEPs who refuse to publish details of their expenses claims... more

Paddick caught in EU fund row over campaign leaflet

28.03.08
Lib-Dem mayoral candidate Brian Paddick is facing claims that his campaign may have breached EU rules on party political spending... more

Bad vibrations from a set of misused sex toys

07.08.07
Nicholas de Jongh found himself bored to distraction by Richard Bean's "political sex farce" In The Club.... more

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