If UKIP is the insurgent, we need a counter insurgency
If UKIP is the insurgency, we need a counter insurgency. Attacking UKIP as clowns, or sneering because their fiscal plans might not add up, will not do
- 3 May 2013
Tory panic as UKIP D-Day approaches
Oh, what a lovely war. A day away from the local elections and the Tories are in a blue funk. And all because of a personable geezer called Farage
- 1 May 2013
Cameron can still win back UKIP protest voters
People want to see a difference between the UK's political parties. Time is running out for Cameron to develop a Big Idea, but it can still be done
- 4 March 2013
A pact between the two right wing parties? I only see one
Many today have noted that the two right wing parties together topped 50 percent of the poll. But many UKIP supporters no longer see the Conservatives as a right wing party
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Ukip is not the home for true libertarians
Libertarians – it’s time to jump ship to a party which can take criticism and will not bend to popular opinion in a desperate bid for unachievable electoral goals
- 25 January 2013
2015: Time for Cameron to 'hug a Ukipper'?
The long term Cameroon strategy of replacing the Conservative right with the Labour right will fail
- 8 January 2013
Tory MPs should consider a pact with their UKIP conscience
For a sitting Conservative MP to take a profound stand by putting country before party, principle before post, would allow them to be remembered for helping turn a UKIP surge into a tidal wave
- 1 December 2012
There will never be a UKIP-Tory pact
UKIP is a party in its own right that will not be bought off by crumbs from the Tory table of government
- 26 November 2012
UKIP's Farage is more 'mainstream Britain' than Cameron will ever be
If UKIP and Nigel Farage are extremists, then so is the majority of the British public. And I for one trust the people more than the Westminster establishment
- 26 November 2012
Brussels Diary: Senior Tory MEP admits UKIP poses direct threat to Tory election hopes
Senior Tory MEP Charles Tannock says UKIP cost Conservatives 20-30 seats at last general election
- 27 October 2012
Brussels Diary: Rejecting the Nobel Peace Prize
From Tories proscribing UKIPers, Corby by-election hopes and the bizarre EU award today; Alexandra Swann brings us her excellent Brussels diary
- 12 October 2012
Debating the EU: the right can unite
Tory party and UKIP to debate which party is most eurosceptic
- 9 October 2012
Conservative Voice: UKIP votes
In the shape of "Conservative Voice", yet another Tory group has emerged designed to head off the electoral threat of UKIP
- 11 September 2012
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