Analysis: UKIP’s first MP, Clacton, Heywood and the general election threat
It’s the breakthrough antiracists have been dreading: the racist populist party UKIP has gained its first elected MP, with Douglas Carswell taking the seaside seat of Clacton, Essex.
Bulgaria: fascists win one in eight parliamentary seats at election
Fascist parties hold one in eight of the seats in the new Bulgarian parliament, following the general election on 5 October – a big increase in their representation.