Police have been alerted to a serious security breach at the Houses of Parliament after a man was spotted trespassing on the roof of the building.
UKIP has a seat in the House of Commons, after Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative MP who defected to UKIP, won back his Clacton seat in an expected, but still convincing by-election victory for his new party.
The leaders of all three major Westminster parties will be campaigning for the Better Together campaign in Scotland as the vote for Scottish independence comes down to the wire.
Tory MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski, told a one-legged drug addict in a wheelchair to “get a job” when asked if he could share some change outside Westminster tube station in London.
One of Britain’s wealthiest boroughs is the new centre of the homelessness epidemic after admitting it will spend a record £41.8m housing families in temporary accommodation this year.