5 d. ago Farage as Prime Minister? 'Red flag' reason why voters aren't convinced

Could Nigel Farage really be headed for No.10? As Reform UK surges and many see the party as the main opposition over the Tories, we asked if you thought the right-winger could be our next Prime Minister

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5 d. ago Scots have every reason to fear Nigel Farage as Prime Minister

Record View says 'it’s little surprise some Scots would consider leaving the Union to escape a Farage-led UK.'

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6 d. ago Scottish independence support surges over fears Nigel Farage could be next Prime Minister

The Reform UK leader is expected to campaign in Scotland for the first time since 2019 ahead of this week's Hamilton by-election.

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8 d. ago Polish presidential election too close to call as campaigning enters final hours – Europe live

Polls show difference between pro-European Rafał Trzaskowski and nationalist Karol Nawrocki within the margin of errorBoth candidates are out and about from early hours today, as they fight for every single vote they can get.Speaking in Włocławek, Trzaskowski rallied his voters and urged them to “convince all those who are not convinced yet.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too | Gaby Hinsliff

His tax-and-spending maths may be bonkers, but while Labour dithers, the Reform leader knows just what his voters wantIf Nigel Farage has a secret weapon, it is his seeming refusal to take things seriously.His habit of repairing to the pub at any opportunity – though in private, he’s said to barely drink now – and the cheerfully unabashed amateurishness of his operation have long made other politicians look stuffy by comparison. But the chaos is also, as it was for Boris Johnson, a means of defence.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Do you think Nigel Farage could be Prime Minister? Take our poll and have your say

Keir Starmer has launched a ferocious attack on Nigel Farage shortly after a poll revealed the Reform UK leader is British voters' last choice to be Prime Minister

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8 d. ago Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans are ‘Liz Truss all over again’, prime minister tells workers in MerseysideThe Conservatives are “sliding into the abyss”, Keir Starmer has said, as he described Nigel Farage and Reform as the main challengers to his Labour government.During a hastily arranged visit to a glass factory in St Helens, the prime minister castigated Farage as a fake defender of working people and compared him to Liz Truss as someone whose fiscal plans would crash the economy. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Farage ‘introducing poison into politics’, warns Starmer amid row over Reform ad

The Prime Minister suggested Reform UK is creating a ‘toxic divide’ with a campaign video it produced ahead of a Holyrood by-election.

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west EnglandStarmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause Truss-style meltdownWhen “something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true”, water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.Asked about the “threat” which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:I think it’s really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they’ve made and we know – gosh, don’t we just know – what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.When something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.Now, had I come on your programme and said, ...

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8 d. ago Where's the cash coming from, Nige? Keir Starmer challenges Farage over Reform's £85bn spending plans

The Prime Minister joined the Tories in taking aim at Mr Farage's economic literacy today after he unveiled plans for an £85billion spending splurge if Reform wins power.

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9 d. ago Ash Sarkar: ‘Keir Starmer has all of Blair’s weaknesses and none of his strengths’

Writer and political commentator described the prime minister as ‘terrible at politics’ compared to Nigel Farage

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1 week ago Nigel Farage could 'definitely' become Prime Minister in 2029 in Reform UK surge, says Dominic Cummings

But the mastermind behind the Brexit campaign says Reform must become more than ‘Nigel and an iPhone’

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1 week ago Labour admit Nigel Farage is running the country. Furious insiders tell DAN HODGES Reform is 'killing them', they're copying his every move... and that it'll spell end of Starmer

Over the past few months, Westminster has reverberated with the same angst-ridden question: 'Could Nigel Farage really become prime minister?'

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1 week ago Farage to park his tanks on Labour’s lawn with pitch to working

The leader of Reform UK will accuse Sir Keir Starmer of lacking a connection with working-class Britain.

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1 week ago Labour pressure to ease welfare squeeze adds to Reeves’ headaches

The Chancellor faces demands to reverse the winter fuel payment cut, axe the two-child benefit limit and limit the scope of welfare reforms.

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1 week ago Ministers considering tweaks to welfare reforms amid rebellion threat – reports

Sir Keir Starmer is said to be considering ‘tweaks’ to welfare cuts planned by his Government.

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2 w. ago Missing Nigel Farage humiliated AGAIN by Keir Starmer's brutal e

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has savagely ridiculed Nigel Farage for being on holiday while Parliament is still sitting causing MPs from across the house to burst out laughing

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage HUMILIATED by Keir Starmer leaving major question unanswered

Prime Minister Keir Starmer took aim at outspoken Nigel Farage after he savaged the new UK-EU deal yet was not present in the chamber during the PM's statement on the agreement

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2 w. ago Negotiations go ‘down to the wire’ as Keir Starmer seeks EU reset deal

Reports suggest disagreements over fishing rights and youth mobility have presented last-minute stumbling blocks to an agreement.

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2 w. ago EU talks going ‘to the wire’ as Starmer prepares to announce deal

The Prime Minister has said the agreement would be ‘another step forwards’ for the UK.

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