A YouGov poll for Scotland on Sunday over the Bank Holiday weekend suggests a breakthrough for the Greens, up to seven per cent and ahead of the Lib Dems.

The head of the National Council of Churches of Kenya says has declared himself to be unhappy that the east African country has failed to refer cases of post-election violence to the International Criminal Court.

The UK-based team coordinating election observers for the presidential elections in internationally unrecognised Somaliland are dismayed that the poll will be postponed indefinitely.

* 78% say independents should stand where MPs have behaved ‘unethically’
* 63% believe British democracy would be strengthened if there were more independent MPs
* 53% say they would ‘seriously consider’ voting for an independent candidate at the next general election