Posts Tagged ‘Newark by-election’

Politics after Newark

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

The morning after the night before. Across the land, the hundreds who made their by-election pilgrimage to Newark blinked at the resultswith bleary eyes. Tory vote down, but proportion up. UKIP up but not a contender. Labour down into third place and, for the second time in a space of a week, the LibDems slip behind […]

Why Farage bottled Newark

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

Patrick Mercer resigning from Parliament because he’s ashamed of his wrongdoing? Now there’s a welcome change. Perhaps a few more MPs should take note. In the normal course of things Mercer’s career might have had a footnote on the news, but as it passes into the night it was immediately overshadowed by one question. Will Nigel Farage […]

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