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The extreme far right now commands an electorate of over 22 million across Europe. From 1999 to 2014, the share of seats of extreme right-wing- and neofascist parties in the European Parliament has more than doubled from 11% to 23%, and they are projected to be the second largest bloc in May's elections. Is Europe under threat from the biggest rise of the far right since the 1930s? Walter Baier of Transform! Europe last weekend adressed the ¡No Pasaran! conference...

Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to use next week's Spring Statement to end the freeze on working-age benefits after a new report revealed some 200,000 Brits have been pushed into poverty due to the cutbacks. The freeze on DWP benefits is due to start its fourth year in a row from April 8 after MPs signed off the cost-cutting sanctions in a vote earlier this week. But social reform think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has urged Hammond...

Some tragic news has emerged from Ethiopia. All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight have died after crash landed. Seven Britons were among 157 people killed after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after take-off. iT occurred around 31 miles south of the capital at around 8.44am local time (5.44am GMT). The flight was scheduled to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. "The group CEO who is at the accident scene right now regrets to confirm...

Karl Busch has missed about 75 per cent of Mid Devon council meetings over the past 18 months

Jeremy Hunt is reportedly holding secret breakfast meetings with ministers to woo MPs to back him to replace Prime Minister Theresa May. A senior Tory figure has told The Sun that Hunt has been asking senior ministers what jobs they want in his Cabinet in exchange for their backing in secret morning meetings. Despite Savid Javid being widely tipped to become the next PM troubles over knife crime and illegal migrants in the Channel could hand the keys to number 10 to...

A business owner had to fight back the tears after discussing the impact Brexit uncertainty will have on operations and the livelihood of her staff.  Speaking to BBC News Sue Wynn-Jones, a horticulturist who runs Crug Farm Plants in North Wales, said two-thirds of their business is in Europe and that a turbulent departure from the union could close the company.  As she begins to tell the reporter what impact the uncertainty is having on her business she had to...

Remember Tory arch Brexiteer and trouble-maker Mark Francois? Many accused the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford of racism when he reacted to Airbus CEO Tom Enders warning about the implications of a no-deal Brexit for the aerospace firm's UK operations by snapping: “Mr Enders’ intervention is a classic example of the sort of Teutonic arrogance, which is one of the reasons why many people voted to leave the European Union.” Today the MP was involved in another race row live...

The Conservative Party is under fire after it was revealed that the party illegally accepted over £1 million in funds from Brits who are actually based in tax havens in the run up to the last election. The Political Parties and Elections Act of 2009 made donations of over £7,500 from people not based in the UK for tax purposes against the law. An investigation in The Times newspaper has revealed people living in tax havens and their UK companies...

Olimpia Bednarczyk was last seen at an address in Derby on Thursday night