Archive of May 2014
London smog: Boris Johnson backs down in air pollution row
Mayor gives in to demands to appear before pollution inquiry.
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Child detention: Immigration centres risk 'lasting psychological damage'
Children exposed to terrifying and inappropriate conduct from officers.
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The truth will out: Blair and Bush's secret Iraq conversations to be revealed
Details of dDozens of conversations between Tony Blair and George Bush about the invasion of Iraq are to be released
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Coalition's reforms risk Newark by-election legal challenge, administrator complains
The Newark by-election faces a greater risk of a legal challenge because of "inadequately performing Electoral Commission officials", a local council chief has said.
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Caroline Lucas points finger at media's Farage obsession
Ukip's triumph in the European elections became a "self-fulfilling story" because the media's blanket coverage of Nigel Farage "squeezed out" other parties, Caroline Lucas has claimed.
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London 'ethnically cleansed' of white people says Ukip candidate
Harrow chairman says he is worried by 'absence of white faces'.
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Collateral damage: Cable hit as Oakeshott detonates resignation statement
Vince Cable knew about Matthew Oakeshott's polling, the peer has revealed, as he quits Westminster with a defiant call for Nick Clegg to resign
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Lord Oakeshott's resignation statement in full
Lib Dem peer resigns after
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Ukip MEPs just 'charlatans' - party founder
Alan Sked speaks out against Nigel 'fantastist' Farage
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'Dumb' people shouldn't be allowed to vote says former Tory councillor
People in Croydon 'let down' Conservatives by not voting for them.
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Local revolution? MP calls for citizens to take responsibility
Rory Stewart calls for a "constitutional re-ordering" of local power bases
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'Living in fear': Bedroom tax anxiety not going away
Bedroom tax forcing nearly nine out of every ten people affected to worry about meeting their living costs
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Another day, another statement: Cable denounces ally over that Clegg polling
Vince Cable publicly condemns long-time ally Matthew Oakeshott for funding polling which undermined Nick Clegg
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EU referendum 'not a priority' for Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband refuses to back an EU referendum in response to Ukip win
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Blair warns Labour not to lurch to right on immigration
Former prime minister urges Miliband to reject anti-immigration policies.
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End of the BNP: Nick Griffin loses Euro seat
Far right party received just one per cent of all votes.
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Farage's triumph: Voters flock to Ukip as Europe turns right
Nigel Farage's Ukip has confounded his critics by winning the European parliamentary elections outright, in the biggest rejection of mainstream politics by British voters in modern times.
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Labour and Ukip neck-and-neck as Europe goes to the polls
The results of the local and European elections look set to go to the wire, with the last batch of opinion polls putting Labour and Ukip neck-and-neck
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Somalian asylum seeker deported despite terror threat
Terror group pledges to fight and kill all returnees.
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Nigel Farage defends Putin from royal 'Hitler' attack
Prince Charles compared Russian president to Hitler.
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Iain Duncan Smith continues to hide reports showing failure of universal credit
DWP claim publication of reports would have a "chilling effect"
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Ukip blasted for using war dead in election leaflet
British soldiers will have 'died in vain' if people don't vote for Ukip.
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Prison book ban: Literary figures in lock-up protest
Leading figures in arts and literary world to bid to spend a night in the cells.
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Vote for me or risk execution warns Ukip candidate
Voters for three main parties are guilty of treason and should be hanged.
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Ukip MEP threatens to prosecute anti-racism group
Campaigners warned they could face prosecution if they go ahead with meeting.
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