Farage says Britain’s becoming “unrecognisable”. But the British public says...
Ukip leader Nigel Farage was dog-whistling for all he was worth at his party’s spring conference this week: “In scores of our cities and market towns, this country, in a short space of time, has,...
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Time for Nick Clegg to ditch the “Great Britain not Little England” line
“Great Britain not little England” – it was a line Nick Clegg used in his recent Spring conference speech, setting up the new political dividing lines between those who are optimistic, outward-looking,...
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The Nigel Farage Paradox: the higher his public profile, the lower is public...
Here is the Nigel Farage paradox: the more that Ukip’s media profile, poll rating and party membership has grown over the last two years, the more that support for the party’s core mission – that...
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“Label the behaviour not the person”: why we shouldn’t call Ukip a racist party
For once I’m going to agree with Nigel Farage. Speaking at a rally this week, he pleaded with the media and public, “from this moment on please do not ever call us a racist party. We are not a racist...
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My open borders immigration policy is, I admit, a fantasy. The...
Here’s my latest The Other Side column for ConservativeHome, published here yesterday. My thanks as ever to the site’s editors, Paul Goodman and Mark Wallace, for giving a Lib Dem space to provoke –...
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How Lib Dems should talk about immigration
This week saw the publication of an important report from the think-tank British Future called ‘How to talk about immigration’. Its central thrust is that the majority of the British public’s views...
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Liberal Heroes of the Week #82: David Willetts and Douglas Carswell
Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Research Associate at CentreForum. David Willetts Conservative MP, former universities minister Reason: for opposing his...
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Who are the three groups of voters more likely to vote Lib Dem in 2015? I was...
An interesting snippet from British Future’s excellent State of the Nation 2015 report: In the State of the Nation poll, first time voters (14%), ethnic minority respondents (15%) and those born abroad...
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View image | gettyimages.com We saw the wrong way to talk about immigration last week – Theresa May’s “awful, ugly, misleading, cynical and irresponsible speech to the Conservative Party conference ”...
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