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Nick Clegg suggests no deal with the Tories if Brexit is government policy May 5, 2015 Nick Clegg has suggested that the Lib Dems would not enter a coalition if British withdrawal from the EU were government policy. Speaking on the campaign trail the Lib Dem leader said: “I would never, of course, accept being part of a government that advocated withdrawal from the European Union”. He reiterated the Lib Dem [...]
Ukip candidate for North East Hampshire, Robert Blay, suspended after threatening to shoot Tory opponent in racist diatribe May 5, 2015 The Ukip parliamentary candidate for North East Hampshire Robert Blay has been suspended with immediate effect. In a video taken at a public meeting by the Daily Mirror, Blay privately lambasted his Tory opponent Ranil Jayawardena with a string of racist abuse. Blay then threatened to shoot the Tory candidate in the head. "I think [...]
Ed Miliband: Labour won’t borrow more than the Tories and non-doms are a red line May 5, 2015 Ed Miliband has said he will not borrow more than the Conservatives, rejecting analysis from the Independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Miliband claims a government led by him would spend more than the Tories but wouldn't borrow more. Speaking to the BBC's James Landale, the Labour leader said he didn't accept the IFS's verdict [...]
Neil Kinnock doubts Labour can win a majority and fears shy Tory voters May 5, 2015 Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock doubts Ed Miliband can win a majority and believes Labour will have to reach out across party lines to get its agenda through. In an interview with the New Statesman, the man who was soundly beaten by both Conservative leaders Margaret Thatcher and John Major said: I think the most [...]
Labour’s Lucy Powell hits back over EdStone gaffe May 5, 2015 Lucy Powell, Labour's election campaign vice chair, is struggling to fight off suggestions she made a serious blunder in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live. Earlier today the senior Labour politician and Ed Miliband ally said the party's election pledges, which the Labour leader has literally carved into a slab of stone, may not [...]