Craig Mackinlay, 52, and his two assistants are said to have spent more than double the legal limit to see off the former UKIP leader's bid to win the South Thanet seat in Kent
George Osborne has admitted government mistakes led to Brexit, saying they were wrong to “play into the debate that everything that Brussels did was a challenge and a battle and was wrong”. Talking to the BBC’s Newsnight the former Chancellor said he has a series of "regrets" about his time ...
Tommy Robinson’s intervention in the trial of the Huddersfield rapists could have allowed the defendants to walk free, according to judges. Twenty men were found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 on Friday after a lengthy court case. The ...
Children are the biggest source of Islamophic and homophobic hate crime in the UK. Shock statistics show that Muslim and gay Britons faced more abuse from under-18s than any other age group. And there were "mini-spikes" in attacks on Jews in the wake of headlines associating anti-semitism with the Labour ...
South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, 51, overspent on his 2015 General Election because of the “threat” posed by the former UKIP leader
Trail of South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, 51, to open tomorrow
During yesterday’s PMQs Theresa May announced the Government had appointed a suicide prevention minister, the first time this role had been introduced in the UK. It has now emerged that the new minister, Jackie Doyle-Price has made jokes about suicide. She had previously told a newspaper in her Thurrock constituency, ...
Serious doubts have been raised about the BBC’s impartiality during the Brexit referendum campaign. Former Business Editor Robert Peston, who spent nine years with the public broadcaster before switching to ITV in 2015, said the national broadcaster failed to deliver impartial and balanced journalism in its coverage of the referendum. ...
By Chloé Farand Chloé Farand is a reporter at Desmog UK investigating climate change denial - where this report first appeared. In a packed lecture hall a few hundred metres away from the Conservative Party Conference, climate science denier and hard-Brexiter MP Owen Paterson told the cheering crowd: “We are the mainstream ...