4 h. ago Voices: You can’t demand seats in the Lords and still be an establishment rebel, Mr Farage

The Reform leader’s only problem with a ‘crony-filled House of Lords’ seems to be that they are not his cronies, says John Rentoul

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4 h. ago Scottish MPs blast Nigel Farage 'hypocrisy' after he requests Reform seats in Lords

The Reform leader has previously called for the abolition of the Lords.

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6 h. ago House of Lords 'doesn't need more Putin apologists like Nigel Farage', says Cabinet minister as Labour sparks furious row by shutting down Reform UK's demand for peerages

John Healey, the Defence Secretary, sparked a furious political row as he referred to Mr Farage's past comments about the Russian leader.

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7 h. ago Lords does not need ‘Putin apologists like Farage’, minister says

Defence Secretary John Healey said the voice of Reform UK is ‘conspicuously absent’ in Commons debates on Russia and Ukraine.

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7 h. ago Nigel Farage demands Keir Starmer gives him some Reform UK peers in the House of Lords as he blasts 'democratic disparity'

The Reform leader has hit out at a 'democratic disparity' that sees his party have no representation in Parliament's unelected upper chamber.

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8 h. ago Nigel Farage makes demand of PM as he wants his 'cronies' in House of Lords

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wants to see representatives from his party in ermine-clad robes - despite him previously calling for the unelected House of Lords to be abolished

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10 h. ago Southport victim’s family criticises police plan to share suspects’ ethnicity

The grandfather of Bebe King said the ethnicity of serious crime suspects is ‘completely irrelevant’.

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23 h. ago Southport victim Bebe King's family slam new plans to share suspects' ethnicity

Bebe King's grandfather said the actions of the far-right and Nigel Farage's Reform UK party in bid to "make a political gain" had been "despicable" in the wake of the horrific tragedy

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25 h. ago British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance

Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last yearThe owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK’s future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe’s biggest gas import terminal.Centrica plans to partner with a US private equity firm to acquire the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent, which can import 15m tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, even after Britain’s gas demand fell last year to its lowest level since the early 1990s. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Peter Kyle launches fresh 'single word' attack on Nigel Farage after Jimmy Savile row

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has said Nigel Farage has not said “one single word” about how he’ll protect kids online after vowing to rip up the UK’s online safety laws

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32 h. ago Business news live: UK economy growth slows as leaders demand ‘no more business taxes in Autumn budget’

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Wednesday

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41 h. ago Women's rights champion and Olympic hero Sharron Davies is set to become Conservative peer

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will reportedly appoint the 62-year-old to the House of Lords alongside columnist Simon Heffer and Graham Edwards, the Tory party treasurer and mega-donor.

Sport

47 h. ago Love Is Blind UK fans make demand after 'working out' future of one couple

Love Is Blind UK has returned for a second season on Netflix and fans are already predicting which couple will make it to the end of the series

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49 h. ago Real reason UK homes don't have air conditioning and how much it costs to run

Demand for air conditioning in UK homes is now on the rise following this year's unusually hot spring and summer - but why don't more homes have it?

Society

51 h. ago Women and children are told to FLEE Ukrainian region where Russian forces have made rapid gains as Putin pushes for territory ahead of Trump meeting

Critics say the offensive is a last-minute push by Vladimir Putin to grab territory before his high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump this week, where it is feared he will demand Ukrainian territory.

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59 h. ago ‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze drones

Putin has escalated strikes on Donetsk region and is likely to demand Ukraine hands it over in talks with TrumpNataliya Petrovna pointed to a crater on the edge of a football field. Around it lay bits of twisted metal. From nearby came loud banging as residents fixed plywood to their damaged five-storey apartment block. Many of its windows were broken. “The last few days have been terrible. We could hear the drones buzzing over us. The one that exploded near the school opposite was a Russian Shahed. Maybe some kind of new type,” she said.Petrovna lives in the eastern garrison city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk province, about 15 miles from the frontline. The distance is just beyond the range of Russian first-person view (FPV) drones, at least for now. But it is easily reachable by other kinds of enemy objects. They include air-dropped glide bombs, Grad rockets and unmanned kamikaze drones – now cruising Ukraine’s skies in overwhelming numbers. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago JD Vance will meet Nigel Farage for breakfast in the Cotswolds

The US politician and reality TV star's unlikely friendship began on X and resulted in Skinner receiving an invite to join Mr Vance at his holiday residence in the Cotswolds.

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65 h. ago JD Vance to meet Reform’s Nigel Farage after talks with Tory MP Robert Jenrick

US vice-president will not hold talks with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch due to ‘conflicting schedules’

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2 d. ago Jamie Lee Curtis' fans demand they 'need more' after first look of her new movie

The film, set in 2008, follows a young and thriving politician named Ella as she tries to balance the highs and lows of her ever-complicated family life with her flourishing career.

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2 d. ago JD Vance to meet Tory MP Robert Jenrick and Reform’s Nigel Farage on UK visit

US vice-president will not hold talks with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch due to ‘conflicting schedules’

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