4 hours ago Elon Musk will help Reform UK win over young voters and beat the Tories, Nigel Farage claims

Nigel Farage said Elon Musk is ‘an absolute hero figure’ for the younger generation and would be a ‘huge help’ in connecting them with Reform UK

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27 hours ago Keir Starmer more unpopular than Nigel Farage as PM's ratings hit a new low and Labour 'pay the price' for tax hikes row

A YouGov survey for The Times found only 25 per cent of voters had a favourable opinion of Sir Keir as the Labour leader's personal ratings hit a new low.

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20 hours ago Nigel Farage threatens legal action against Badenoch over Reform membership ‘fakery’ claim

Row comes after Reform UK claimed to have surpassed Conservatives in membership

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9 hours ago Revisited: actor Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; and America’s top pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world – podcast

Fast-talking, finger-jabbing Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s. Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause, thousands follow their ideology: to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. Enter the unsettling world of Malcolm and Simone Collins, America’s premier pronatalists Continue reading...

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22 hours ago MAGA backlash as Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy defend visa program for skilled workers: Live updates

MAGA supporters clash with top Trump lieutenants as they laud the benefits of H-1B visa program for American companies

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14 hours ago Badenoch urged to apologise or face ‘action’ from Farage over Reform numbers row

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage says he will spend the next couple of days weighing up possible action against Kemi Badenoch.

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36 hours ago MAGA civil war as Elon Musk and Vivek clash with hard right on key immigration issue

The MAGA movement is embroiled in a fierce debate over the H-1B visa program after Vivek Ramaswamy, a Trump appointee, defended hiring skilled foreign workers and criticized American culture.

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16 hours ago Trump shares bizarre Truth Social post claiming Bill Gates asked to come to Mar

President-elect’s cryptic message comes amid his ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk’s feud with other MAGA allies over H-1B visas

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18 hours ago Trump accidentally shares cryptic message intended for Elon Musk with the world

President-elect Donald Trump sent a cryptic message to his billionaire tech friend Elon Musk on Friday hours after a brutal social media debate on immigration blew up in his face.

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19 hours ago Farage: Badenoch must apologise for ‘crazy conspiracy theory’ on Reform numbers

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Reform UK of ‘fakery’ over its membership data.

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19 hours ago Nigel Farage hints at legal action against Kemi Badenoch in Reform membership row

But Tory leader claims own party tally has risen as she accuses Reform UK of ‘fakery’

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19 hours ago Nigel Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch in Reform membership row

Nigel Farage would not rule out taking legal action against the Tory leader over her claim of ‘fakery’ in membership row

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20 hours ago Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy

Feud flared up when president-elect chose Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born entrepreneur, as his AI adviserBitter in-fighting has broken out between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hardline Make America great again (Maga) base after the US president-elect chose an Indian-born entrepreneur to be his adviser on artificial intelligence.The row has pitted Musk and his fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy against die-hard supporters including the far-right activist Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz, the former congress member and abortive nominee for attorney general. The spat threatens to open up a chasm among Trump’s supporters over immigration, a key issue in his election victory. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago An online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump's political coalition

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display

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20 hours ago Elon Musk's ex Grimes insists she wasn't 'dumped' by the billionaire: 'I bounced'

Grimes, 36, and Musk, 53, were together for four years before splitting in 2022, and she has now claimed that she was the one who decided to walk away from their relationship.

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21 hours ago Grimes clarifies that she wasn’t ‘dumped’ by ex Elon Musk: ‘No regrets’

The Tesla CEO and the musician share three children together — but ended in a bitter custody split

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22 hours ago Farage threatens action against Tory leader in row over membership numbers

Reform UK leader demands an apology from Kemi Badenoch over accusation the party had produced ‘fake’ data

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23 hours ago Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’ | Owen Jones

So-called moderates are mimicking populist demagogues, with potentially disastrous consequencesIt was once known as the “centre right”, and this was the year it definitively perished. It never had a coherent political philosophy, but it tended to blend deference to the perceived needs of large business interests, the championing of so-called traditional values that were actually longstanding prejudices, and admiration for established institutions. Above all else, it supposedly offered a cordon sanitaire, preventing anything further to the right from acquiring political legitimacy.That hasn’t quite worked to plan. Nigel Farage now claims his populist-right Reform party has a higher membership than the Tories: if true, it is the first time in British history that members of a rightwing rival have outnumbered the Conservative party’s. Nearly two decades ago, then Tory leader, David Cameron, dismissed Farage’s Ukip as “fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly”; but today, Camero...

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23 hours ago MAGA civil war ramps up as Trump ally Laura Loomer lays into Elon Musk — and loses her blue check

“[Musk] has removed my blue check mark on X because I dared to question his support for H1B visas, the replacement of American tech workers by Indian immigrants,” Laura Loomer tweeted Thursday.

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23 hours ago Reform UK threatens legal action against Tory leader Kemi Badenoch in membership 'fakery' row

A furious row has erupted between Mrs Badenoch and Reform leader Nigel Farage after an online counter indicated Reform now has more than 141,000 members.

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27 hours ago 2024's oddest political moments from Truss storming off stage to Tory sex slogan gaffe

In the past year we've seen Liz Truss storm off stage, Rishi Sunak apologise for 'killing' Samba trainers, Kemi Badenoch go to war with sandwiches and Nigel Farage get prickly

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28 hours ago Nigel Farage boasts of larger social media following than Kemi Badenoch in party membership numbers row

Nigel Farage compared his and Kemi Badenoch's social media following as he hit out at the Conservative leader's accusation of “fakery” over claims that Reform UK membership has surpassed the Tories, making it the second-largest political party in the UK.

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31 hours ago Kemi Badenoch rises to Nigel Farage brag and accuses him of 'fakery' in bitter festive spat

Kemi Badenoch predictably took the bait after Nigel Farage bragged his Reform UK party had more members than the Tories - prompting an allegation of 'fakery' in an angry rant

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