Election 2015 live - The Guardian
Amid deepening unease among Tory grandees at the party leaderships attacks on Ed Miliband over possible plans for a post-election pact with the SNP, Tebbit said it was ���logical��� to vote Labour in areas where Conservatives stand no chance. Wikipedia has blocked a user. Nigel Farage has said that critics of the lack of ethnic diversity in the Ukip manifesto have got it wrong, because along with ���one fully black person��� it also features a ���half-black��� party spokesman.
Election 2015: party leaders campaign after TV debate ��� as.
Cameron, Miliband, Sturgeon and Farage all score strongly as polls suggest no clear winner in TV showdown. Join Andrew Sparrow and the Guardian politics team for the morning after the night before.
Election 2015 live - The Guardian
I know I may be accused of looking out for my own here but villain of the day has to be Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg for only allowing one question from the media at his partys manifesto launch. If journalists are unable to test a. Plaid Cymrus Leanne Wood, Ukips Nigel Farage, Labours Ed Miliband, Scottish National Partys Nicola Sturgeon and Green Partys Natalie Bennett will square up for the latest televised showdown. Well have to wait and see if the prime��.
Scottish leaders debate: Sturgeon commits to full fiscal.
The Scottish party leaders challenge each other in a six-way debate and Ed Miliband earlier said the 200-year-old non-domicile rule benefits only those at the top and pledges to end anomaly.. Sturgeon hinted that the SNP would propose one in their manifesto for the 2016 Scottish elections and then seek to hold one in the event of victory ��� suggesting that the SNPs promise of no further referendum for a.. Thanks @GoApeTribe for having us for a quick stop.
what the average face of a party leader looks like in 2015
A facial average like the one above is created by digitally altering each persons face to a matching position and expression, and then morphing them all together to create an average. This process. This picture illustrates the average pictorial representation of David Cameron (Conservatives), Ed Miliband (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP) and Natalie Bennett (Green Party). The faces.. Gaurdian quit paying staff for crap like this. What a��.
Election 2015 live - The Guardian
Party leaders prepare for Question Time leaders special as Ipsos Mori poll gives Tories 5-point lead.. But Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said the Tories should come ���come clean��� about their plans to cut welfare. Come clean about your plans. Tell Britains working.. I will be keeping this blog going until about 6pm, and then we will launch a new blog to cover the Question Time event with David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg tonight. It must be endorsement��.
Election 2015 live - The Guardian
If Ukip supporters go ahead and vote for Nigel Farages party, he argued, it would be akin to writing a ���suicide note��� for their hopes of a vote on Europe because doing so could aid a Labour victory over the Conservatives.. And, surely, any Labour leader who turned his back on that and allowed the Tories to get back into office, rather than work with the SNP to keep them out - as Ed Miliband suggested last week that he would - would simply never be forgiven in��.
Election 2015 live: Miliband urges voters in Scotland not to.
After last nights ask the leaders edition of BBC Question Time, party leaders battled it out to see who dismiss the other quicker while simultaneously trying to present themselves as the only viable option for Britain... Mr Miliband sacrificed any claim to progressive politics on Thursday night, when he indicated that he would prefer to let the Tories back in to continue their cuts and damage to society for five more years, rather than work with the SNP to keep them out.
General Election 2015 Sees David Dimbleby Shout Out For Gods Sake For.
Nigel Farage has not been elected as an MP. He was beaten in. But it really did seem, looking not just at the polls but also Labours own data and my own instinct going around the UK, that the Tories would not get a majority, and that Ed Miliband.
Ed Balls Has An Election Night Fight On His Hands To Keep Seat Amid.
However all the other parties urged caution, with the Lib Dems and Ukip outright rejecting the forecast. Close. ���.. After winning his Doncaster North seat, Ed Miliband makes his first comment on his partys poor performance, noting Labour was.
TRNS News Notes- 5/8
After a court ruling against the NSAs phone data collection program Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on the floor of the chamber: ���According to the CIA, had these authorities been in place more than a decade ago, they would.
Question Time: Guardian/ICM poll 44% say Cameron won.
Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, David Cameron during special BBC Question Time programme with the three main party leaders at Leeds Town Hall, West Yorkshire. 11.40pm BST 18:40Summary; 11.04pm BST 18:04Farage says rise of SNP shows Ukip could thrive even if Britain voted to stay in EU; 10.36pm BST 17:36TheySay Twitter analysis says Cameron won debate; 10.27pm BST... After an hour it was very clear only one of them had the leadership qualities.
The biggest loser of the night? Russell Brand
For last night there was an even bigger loser than those guys.. This election has just done to Brand what the last election did to Clegg: exposed that his powers of persuasion over the little people are nothing more than a Guardianista fantasy.
Election 2015 live: Miliband reveals first coalition red line to.
The prime minister is currently on a non-stop 36-hour tour of the UK, which will see him talking to nightshift workers as he campaigns through the small hours, while Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is embarking on a 1,000-mile two-day battlebus odyssey from Lands End to John OGroats.. Nationally, there was some cheer for Ukip in the form of polling today by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft which had the party rising one percentage point to 12 percent. Ashcroft polling��.
Election 2015 live: Milibands pledges stone marks Sheffield.
There used to be a time when politicians just made promises, and expected people to believe them. Then, as public scepticism grew, Tony Blair developed a new strategy to persuade people he was sincere; he wrote his��.
Election 2015 live: Farage says he prefers Indian and.
David Cameron has intensified his warnings of an SNP-Labour alliance after the election, tweeting footage of the former Scottish National party leader Alex Salmond joking that he will be writing the next Labour budget. Salmond.. Q: You have said you will resign as leader of Ukip if you dont win Thanet South. Do you. When you interviewed David Cameron, when you interviewed Miliband and Clegg did you go through a list of their ��� not just council candidates?
Elmbridge elects (again): Twenty borough seats up for grabs
Councillor Mary Sheldon, for Hersham South, commenting on the resignation of Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage, said: ���I think its very unusual to have an election result, for the other leaders, a large number of the other leaders, to resign.
Election 2015 ��� live: Ashcroft poll shows Clegg to lose seat.
Nick Clegg the leader of Britains Liberal Democrat party points at a press conference in London. Photograph:. There was one thing the parties wanted to talk about today more than anything else, and that was the issue of taxation. As the final. The Sun branded Labour the ���Monster Raving Labour party���, the Daily Mail said ���Pathetic��� Miliband had been savaged for the ���stunt���, and David Cameron said he has no time to hang out with the ���joke��� Russell Brand. But the��.
Camerons cabinet is a Rubiks cube no amount of reshuffling will solve
A new prime minister is never stronger than in the hours after he takes office. So the period after he kissed hands at lunchtime to form his new single-party Conservative majority government are David Camerons hours of greatest power. He owes nothing.
Nigel Farage resigns as Ukip leader after failure to win Westminster seat
Telling activists ���Im a man of my word���, he said he would step down since he had promised defeat would force him to quit.. Shock results deliver Tories overall Commons majority and claim leadership scalps of Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage.
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He said: ���I think the First Past The Post system is bankrupt, it is bankrupt because one party can get 50 per cent of the vote in Scotland and nearly 100 per cent of the seats, and our party can get four million votes and just one seat. For those.
Leaders debate: ICM/Guardian poll puts Miliband ahead ��� just
Rolling coverage of the ITV leaders debate, with David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Natalie Bennett, Nicola Sturgeon and Leanne Wood, with reaction and analysis, and the poll results as they come in.. It was also pretty heartening to see the sheer number of women leaders ��� there hasnt been a US debate with more than one woman in my lifetime, let alone a debate with multiple women ��� and to see all three hold their own and not succumb to��.
Election 2015 ��� live: Ed Miliband adviser warns of Tory ���fog.
Scottish Labours leader and the partys general election coordinator are set to lose their seats to the Scottish National party, a poll by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft suggests.. That is more important to me frankly than listening to Nigel Farage with his loopy, loopy stuff at one extreme and Ed Miliband dithering about how not to balance the books, and three other politicians saying can we wave a magic wand and borrow lots of.. STOP THAT FUCKING CHEQUE.
Election 2015 live: Tory minister heckled over detention of asylum seekers
If Ukip supporters go ahead and vote for Nigel Farages party, he argued, it would be akin to writing a ���suicide note��� for their hopes of a vote on Europe because doing so could aid a Labour victory over the Conservatives.. one. And they should stop.
And then there was one: Miliband, Clegg and Farage quit as party leaders
With the Conservatives winning an overall majority ��� confounding all the opinion poll predictions ��� Labours Ed Miliband, the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage of Ukip all announced their resignations in quick succession on Friday morning.
Election Results: Live Updates And News Of Britains General Election 2015
A dramatic night saw the Scottish National Party sweep Labour out of almost all its strongholds north of the border, while Liberal Democrats suffered savage losses and Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage all resigned.. Ed Miliband has resigned.
Nick Clegg throws leadership into doubt as Lib Dem vote collapses
With the Lib Dems likely to have their worst election night since the party was formed in 1988, Cleggs future as leader was being questioned, with some speculating that he would resign imminently. Speaking at the count in Sheffields English Institute.
Election 2015 live - The Guardian
Russell Brand is expected to release the full version of his interview with Ed Miliband, while the Labour leader and shadow chancellor are expected to be seen shaking off their Ed Balls Day hangovers at a morning press conference on. The last parliament will be remembered fondly by Nigel Farage as the one when Ukip broke into the political mainstream to challenge both major parties, taking its first two seats at Westminster from the Conservatives and coming just��.
Memories of an election: empty barns and debates that recurred like cystitis
Anyone who failed to mentally caption this photo ���Suck it up, shitheads��� simply failed to understand their irrelevance to the three main party leaders this election. They would literally rather touch a dirtbag than you. It was the election of empty.
SNP to demand new powers for Scottish parliament after election landslide
Scottish National party sources said Sturgeon is to insist that Cameron goes far further than the promised powers for Scotland set out in the Smith Commission report in January, allowing Holyrood to set separate rates of income tax, greater borrowing.
What does Camerons election win mean for the environment?
Furthermore, the Tory aversion to building regulations will mean homes will be less energy efficient than many want.. Shock results deliver Tories overall Commons majority and claim leadership scalps of Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage. Our.
Election 2015 UK: Voters head to the polls - live
Final ICM/Guardian poll gives Labour one point lead. Created with Snap. Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader and ex-First Minister of Scotland, is expected to comfortably win a Westminster seat there unless an unprecedented amount of pro-UK tactical.