The Ten Creators of UKIP

From illiberal liberals to the Daily Express, Nigel Farage to David Cameron, here are the factors that delivered UKIP’s success.

What do the European election results mean for each party?

With a UKIP victory, a Lib Dem wipeout and another Miliband mess-up, what does this all mean?

Edward Leigh MP: The lesson of these Euro-elections: Modernisation has failed. Get back to real conservatism. End the Coalition now.

My programme: Let grammars expand. Means-test incidental health costs. The Green Deal is a joke. Immigration is still a farce. Apologise for same sex marriage.

How has Labour performed?

Ed Miliband made more of a mess of the council elections than he made of that bacon sandwich.

Syed Kamall MEP: More Conservative MEPs are the route to reform or an in/out referendum

If you want no change, vote Labour, Lib Dem or UKIP.

Nick Faith: Osborne must help the nation overcome its fears of the global race

Miliband and Farage prey on people’s worries – the Conservatives must seek to solve them, instead.

LISTEN: “You do know who Jim Grant is, Mr Miliband?”

There are awkward Ed Miliband moments, and then there’s this: the Labour leader’s appearance on Radio Wiltshire today.

Death of candidate postpones election in Barnet

The death of the Green Party candidate means the Coilindale Ward contest in Barnet has been postponed

Lord Ashcroft: Labour lead by six points in my latest poll

They’re on 35 per cent, up three points since last week. The Tories are down five, on 29 per cent.

Priti Patel MP: This is the most successful Euro-sceptic government since Thatcher’s. So vote Conservative on Thursday.

Miliband and Labour are relying on divisions on the Right to prop them up. Let’s not give the them that satisfaction.

Cutting the number of Whitehall departments is missing the point

To distract their critics, Labour’s Treasury team will make a big thing of the administrative savings they intend to make

Pollsters risk their reputations trying to suss out what will happen on Thursday

Also, are Labour really viewed as ‘the party of the NHS’?

Luke de Pulford: The Big Society is bouncing back

…and about time, too – it’s a good idea and a potential vote-winner.

Andrew RT Davies: After the hospital horrors in Bridgend, we need a full, independent enquiry into Wales’s NHS

This week, one of the worst reports on a Welsh hospital ever written has been published – the Princess of Wales in Bridgend.

Twelve reasons why the morale of Conservative MPs has risen

Actually, scrap the other eleven, and just stick to one. The economy. The economy. The economy…