22 h. ago Tories swipe at 'chaos and confusion' in local councils after Reform UK's takeover of town halls sees a slew of resignations, flag rows, flooding fears and a bitter dispute with firefighters

A damning dossier has revealed the 'chaos and confusion' that Reform councillors are sowing across England after their local elections success on 1 May.

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54 h. ago Megapoll finds Labour faces election disaster just a year after landslide: Angela Rayner and Yvette Cooper among hundreds of MPs on track to lose seats

As Keir Starmer prepares to mark a year since his landslide, a huge YouGov poll has underlined his extraordinary fall from grace.

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54 h. ago London councillor who defected to Reform from Tories quits as CPS prosecutor after explosive remarks

Laila Cunningham dramatically defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives last week, saying she was ‘tired of defending failure’

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1 week ago Loch Lomond Flamingo Land tycoon backed Reform UK and donated £162,500 to the Tories

EXCLUSIVE: Gordon Gibb backed Nigel Farage's party at the general election as he backed cuts to immigration and tax.

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2 w. ago Tories call for information watchdog to probe Reform UK’s data requests

Nigel Farage’s political party has requested a broad swathe of information from the councils it now controls across England.

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2 w. ago 'Neither Reform nor the Tories give a damn about us Muslim females. They are just using the burka to incite hatred'

Zia Yusuf left Reform last week over calls to ban the burkha, but is now back in the Farage fold, but those who pick on minorities should not be trusted. Ever - writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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3 w. ago Farage's Reform storms into Scottish politics as SNP flops, Tories fail and Labour pulls off shock win

Commentary: Reform shows it can compete north of the border too

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3 w. ago Don’t think Nigel Farage will kill off the Tories? Just look at Reform UK’s surge in Scotland | Owen Jones

The party is making inroads among people who once chose not to vote. But as Zia Yusuf’s resignation shows, chaos still reignsIf you were doubting that Nigel Farage had a serious chance of heading a hard-right British government in 2029, the people of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse just poured a bucket of particularly icy water over your head. Though Labour won the Scottish parliamentary byelection, defying predictions it would be beaten into third place, Reform UK chalked up more than a quarter of the vote – trailing the victors by an unsubstantial 1,500 voters.This tells a devastating story. Nigel Farage’s outfit seriously outperformed the level of support indicated by Scottish polling: the last four surveys had Reform on between 12% and 19%, yet it secured 26% of the vote after standing here for the first time. This suggests it is mobilising previous non-voters whom pollsters are not picking up. The latest UK-wide YouGov poll, which asked people how they would vote if there wer...

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3 w. ago Nigel Farage's Reform storms into Scottish politics as SNP flops, Tories fail and Labour pulls off shock win

Commentary: Reform shows it can compete north of the border too

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3 w. ago Badenoch ‘will get better’, says Stride as Tories’ polling woes continue

The shadow chancellor insisted the party has the right person in the top job.

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3 w. ago Tories must reject climate change ‘luddites’ on left and right, warns Cleverly

The former home secretary will urge his party to ‘set the pace’ internationally on green technology.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer comes under pressure to sack his top legal adviser after he likened Right

Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to sack his Attorney General over controversial comments he made in a speech last week that were seen as directed towards the Tories and Reform UK.

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4 w. ago Attorney General regrets 'clumsy' language on 1930s Germany as 'Nazi' row grows with Tories and Reform on ECHR

Shadow paymaster general Richard Holden said Lord Hermer’s isn’t ‘fit to be our Attorney General’

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4 w. ago 'Nazi' row spirals after Attorney General 'compares' Tories and Reform on ECHR to 1930s Germany

Shadow paymaster general Richard Holden said Lord Hermer’s isn’t ‘fit to be our Attorney General’

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4 w. ago Attorney General takes aim at Tories and Reform as he compares calls to leave ECHR with Nazi Germany

Lord Hermer used a speech in London to say that claims that international law can be ‘put aside’ were made in the early 1930s in Germany

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