Further coverage of the ConservativeHome manifesto “Conservative Home , the activist website owned by Lord Ashcroft, said that EU migrants should be forced to buy private insurance policies in lieu of access to welfare benefits and free NHS treatment in its election manifesto published on Monday morning. … Calling for a “new deal on immigration”, […]
Carswell 1) Early poll shows UKIP at 64 per cent in Clacton ‘Ukip are set to win their first Commons seat with a landslide 64 per cent of the vote following the biggest swing in modern political history. Turncoat MP Douglas Carswell is set to humiliate David Cameron at the Clacton by-election sparked by his […]
Terror threat 1) Cameron announces security crackdown… “David Cameron promised new legislation would make it easier to takepassports from those travelling abroad to fight. The home secretary already has the power, under the Royal Prerogative, to withhold a passport if it is in the public interest to stop somebody travelling. That power has been used […]
Carswell 1) Clacton MP defects to UKIP ‘David Cameron was on an international phone call in his No10 study when Douglas Carswell dropped his bombshell live on TV, just after 11am. A shell-shocked aide went in to break the news as soon as the PM put down his receiver. Rumours of Tory defections to Ukip […]
Cameron risks split with US over Syrian airstrikes “The government is reluctant, however, to be drawn deeper into a campaign that already involves British warplanes conducting surveillance flights over Iraq in support of US bombing raids, sources say. British caution over military action in Syria is in contrast to American bullishness and is likely to […]
“Incomprehensible” … “Appalling” … The report into abuse in Rotherham “At least 1,400 girls were left to be abused by Asian men because the authorities were too scared to admit there was a race issue, a report said yesterday. … Over a 16-year period, children as young as 11 were sexually exploited by gangs of […]
Snap poll gives Salmond victory over Darling “Alex Salmond staged a dramatic fightback in the Scottish independence campaign after mounting repeated attacks on the credibility of no campaign leader Alistair Darling in a bloody confrontation in advance of next month’s referendum. Salmond scored a decisive victory in a snap poll for the Guardian by more […]
Cameron to tell the EU: I will countenance Brexit “David Cameron is preparing to raise the spectre of Britain leaving the European Union should it reject a large overhaul of its rules, The Times has learnt. … The shift, which is being actively considered in Downing Street, would amount to a significant toughening of the […]
Terrorism 1): Hammond warns that unless stopped, ISIL will strike on British soil “ISIL members are turning a swathe of Iraq and Syria into a terrorist state as a base for launching attacks on the West…Unless they are stopped, sooner or later they will seek to strike us on British soil…we have assisted the Kurdish […]
May: We must give ourselves the powers we need to fight terror “We must confront and defeat the extremist ideology that sanctions and encourages terrorist activity. Propagandists who encourage or approve terrorism are prosecuted. Terrorist groups, like Isil, are banned and support for them is a criminal offence. I have excluded more than 150 people […]
Extremism 1) Twice as many British muslims wage jihad than join the army ‘More than twice as many British Muslims have travelled to Syria andIraq to wage jihad than have joined the British military over the past three years. The difference could be even greater after it was claimed last night that the number of […]
ISIS 1) Prime Minister breaks off holiday but will not recall Parliament “David Cameron broke off his holiday for a crisis meeting with security chiefs yesterday following the beheading of a US journalist by a British jihadi. He travelled back from Cornwall to co-ordinate the hunt for the Islamic State fanatic who murdered James Foley. […]
Lord Dannatt urges the Prime Minister to recall Parliament “As the Prime Minister began his third holiday of the year, the former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, said ‘the nation would expect’ Parliament to be recalled. … Lord Dannatt, a former defence adviser to Mr Cameron, said the potential implications of the conflict – […]
Ganesh: Number 10’s stately weakness on Iraq ‘David Cameron wanted to intervene in Syria last year. His parliamentary defeat on the matter scuppered any British action and discouraged the US from going in, too. Those close to Mr Cameron say the present convulsions in Iraq are bringing out his impatience to act – but also […]
Cameron’s new family plan; Fallon: Iraq action may take months; Build more bungalows; Plus, lefty charity guerillas.