UKIP leader Nigel Farage has accepted a challenge from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to a public debate on the future relationship between the UK and Europe.
New research has found that the majority of UKIP supporters would be “uncomfortable” with the idea of the UK having a non-white Prime Minister.
A recent poll has found that the majority of the British populations believes the Tories to be “mean” and Labour and the Liberal Democrats to be “dim”, in the latest display of popular disenchantment with the political establishment.
UKIP appear to be the big winners in the local elections as the results come in, having won 42 of the seats so far and averaging 26% of the vote according to early estimates.
Former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Chris Huhne has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after claims by his ex-wife that he persuaded her to take his speeding points in 2003