Stephen Mold moves into Poll Position to become the New MP for Derby North

The Conservatives have received the top Votes ahead of both Labour, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats in the European Elections in Derby & the East Midlands.

The Conservatives secured two East Midlands MEP's, Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin from the five seats available as part of the proportional voting system used in the European Elections.

In Derby City, the Conservatives jumped from third place into first increasing their vote share. In contrast Labour, the Lib Dems and UKIP saw their vote share fall significantly.

The Euro results are the closest indicator of how votes will be cast in Derby during the forthcoming general election, to be held within the next twelve months.

It confirms that Stephen Mold is in Poll position to become the New MP for Derby North at the General election when it comes.

The Liberal Democrats in Derby will be disappointed to have failed to capitalise on Labour's huge fall in support, seeing their vote also drop to just 15% - only just beating UKIP into third place.

The result is a huge blow to the Liberal Democrats' chances in Derby North, which includes Mickleover and Littleover wards. They had previously been optimistic that the area was a target for them in the General Election.

Gordon Brown caught red Handed !

Today is the day Gordon Brown was caught red-handed.

Last week, he said that his government would be "increasing capital expenditure up to the Olympics" - that means spending on things like building more schools and hospitals. But as this video show - these claims are not just controversial, they just aren't true. His own figures show that he plans to cut capital investment not just from now to the Olympics in 2012, but every single year up to 2014.

At Prime Minister's Questions David Cameron repeatedly gave the Prime Minister the opportunity to correct this false claim - but as usual he just couldn't give a straight answer to a straight question.

He also repeatedly claims that "in every year in the future public spending will continue to rise". But again, the government's own figures show that once you account for the increased cost of unemployment and the rising interest charges we will have to pay on national debt, total spending will be cut.

This means that Labour's current plans involve significant cuts on the budgets of government departments, and spending on public services.

The Prime Minister may say he wants to restore trust in politics. But by trying to take the British people for fools in this way, his actions are speaking louder than his words.

The division in British politics is not - "cuts versus investment" - as Gordon Brown says, but between a Conservative Party telling the truth about the state of the public finances, and Labour who are failing to be straight with people.

Britain can't afford another year of Labour