| Few would argue that Nigel Farage is a controversial figure but the Ukip leader has today brushed off stories of a civil war within his party and has told Politics.co.uk that he is not too divisive to lead the Brexit campaign. "We're all divisive. Who isn't divisive in politics?" he said.
Since the surprise outcome of the 2015 general election there has been a lot of speculation about why the pollsters got the result so wrong. Our first piece today takes an in-depth look at the possible reasons as to why this happened and suggests that it had more to do with unrepresentative samples than it did with 'shy Tories'.
Elsewhere, the feminist activists Sisters Uncut, write on how the closure of the last women's refuge in Cumbria is the latest example of how local authority budget cuts and uncertainty around changes to housing benefits are having a devastating impact on women's services.
We also have a piece on this week's Holyrood election debate, it suggests that the SNP's income tax policies show that the New Labour project lives on in Scotland.
And, we report that Sadiq Khan believes that London's transport authority is too dominated by white men. Speaking yesterday, the Labour candidate for mayor said it needed to better reflect the capital's diversity. | 
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