Ukip candidate refuses to apologise to Labour MP over rape tweet as pro-Leave party launches EU election campaign
18/04/2019
A Ukip election candidate has refused to apologise for sending a rape tweet to Labour’s Jess Phillips, as the anti-EU party kicked off its European election campaign at a chaotic event.
The Conservative Party was once seen as Europe's best-oiled political machine. But Brexit and Theresa May have turned it into a smoldering wreck. Now, the party faces the dire prospect of EU elections. /
Tesco baby food blackmail farmer revealed as former North East Lincolnshire Councillor and Tory chairman
22/08/2020
The man behind the plot to blackmail Tesco for £1.4m by contaminating jars of baby food was a Ukip MP candidate and a Grimsby Conservative chairman.
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Ukip leader Gerard Batten has described a rape tweet sent by one of his party’s election candidates to Labour MP Jess Phillips as satire.
Millionaire Brexit-backing businessman Arron Banks has lost his Court of Appeal fight over a six-figure inheritance tax bill on his donations to Ukip.
UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad) has produced a disgusting, “deliberately offensive” slur-ridden video.
Jess Phillips has called for the Electoral Commission to impose 'standards' on political candidates after the comments from Carl Benjamin
Brexiteers like Zac Goldsmith claim to care about democracy – so let's take a look at their track records
14/03/2019
Reforming political finance is another area where Brexiteers fall silent. Despite serious question marks over the Leave campaign, these MPs have refused to countenance an equivalent of the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in our democracy.
Richard Braine has pulled out of the conference in Newport after fewer than 450 tickets were sold.
Officers are investigating malicious communications bearing UKIP's logo that tells MPs "we're watching you".
Ukip leader slapped down by police for falsely claiming they could use water cannon they don't even own on protesters
29/03/2019
Gerard Batten had suggested Metropolitan Police may use banned devices, despite force not owning any.
Ukip leader Richard Braine says he is 'getting a bit fed up with all this dickbraine stuff'
14/08/2019
Ukip’s new leader, Richard Braine, has said he is “getting a bit fed up” with people making fun of his name.
Party must show how it spent £300,000 on data services in run-up to 2016 vote and 2015 election.
Far-right activist claimed he helped with Boris Johnson’s resignation speech as foreign secretary.
John Wallace has refused to apologise for the threatening notes circulated outside Westminster.
Make Britain Great Again: How Ukip tried to ride the Trump wave – and it ended in disaster
15/01/2020
As Ukip welcomes Katie Hopkins as a member, Lizzie Dearden looks at the party’s journey into the far right.
Ex-Ukip deputy leader David Bannerman under fire for proposing post-Brexit update.
European election candidate Carl Benjamin has added to original comments on YouTube. / Police are investigating comments by a Ukip candidate in the European elections speculating about whether he would rape the MP Jess Phillips amid growing concern over threats to politicians.
Peter Burkinshaw said rough sleepers "obstruct" the streets and called for a "national solution". / A controversial UKIP election candidate has been condemned after calling for rough sleepers in Cambridge to be "rounded up and put in a camp outside the city".
The new party has already run into controversy after two figures stepped down over racist social media posts
Public concern about immigration to the UK may be down, but it has always been a surrogate question to living standards.
MEPs said to have broken rules that ban assistants from working for both the national party and in Brussels. / Eight UKIP MEPs, including the party's former and current leaders, Nigel Farage and Paul Nuttall, could have to pay £500,000 back to the European Parliament after being accused of misusing EU funds, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
On the heels of her election defeat, Anne Marie Waters has moved to create a new far right party to join the British political landscape.