5 h. ago Keir Starmer issues grim 'danger' warning over Nigel Farage's Reform UK in major speech

Keir Starmer argued Nigel Farage's Reform UK party is 'not the answer for Britain' and promised to point out their 'bluster' in major speech to the Scottish Labour conference

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5 h. ago Keir Starmer goes to war with Nigel Farage to accuse 'dangerous' Reform UK of 'fawning over Putin' and holding policies 'alien' to Brits following party's poll surge

The Prime Minister used a speech at the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow to launch an full-throated attack on Reform's 'dangerous right-wing politics'.

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50 h. ago ‘Betrayed by the system’: Chappell Roan sparks debate over pay and healthcare in pop

The singer castigated record labels in her Grammys speech – but, as music industry insiders explain, issues around artist health and support run even deeperAt this year’s Grammys, as she accepted the award for best new artist, Chappell Roan made an appeal to the labels and industry reps in the audience to “offer a liveable wage and healthcare, especially to developing artists” – and in so doing, heated up long-simmering tensions in the music industry over artists’ wellbeing and remuneration.Roan said that after she was dropped by Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner, in the 2010s, she had little real-world job experience and “could not afford health insurance”. She added that “it was devastating to feel so betrayed by the system”. She is now signed to Island, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group (UMG), and her speech seemed to be addressed specifically to major labels, whose profits have soared in recent years even as revenue for artists has gone down. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Nigel Farage lavishes praise on Elon Musk at US rally after Trump ally said he should be ousted as Reform leader

Mr Farage used a speech at a pro-Trump rightwing rally in the US to label the X owner a 'hero of free speech' for his efforts to deregulate the social media platform.

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54 h. ago Rise of Farage’s Reform fuelled by voters aged over 45, new poll reveals

Support from Generation X and Baby Boomers has put Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at the top of the Techne UK tracker poll for the first time

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58 h. ago Farage’s dash to the top fuelled by voters aged over 45, new poll reveals

Support from Generation X and Baby Boomers has put Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at the top of the Techne UK tracker poll for the first time ever this week

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62 h. ago Photo of runaway military horses bolting through London up for award

The picture is one of 15 people can choose from for the IMAGO Photograph of the Year at the annual UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards.

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62 h. ago Picture Editors Guild Awards: Photo of runaway military horses bolting through London up for award

The picture is one of 15 people can choose from for the IMAGO Photograph of the Year at the annual UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards.

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2 d. ago Why Labour's hardline stance on immigration is playing into Nigel Farage's hands

Both the Conservatives and Labour appear to be trying to win a race to the bottom on immigration with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage ‘hands ownership of Reform to members’, says party

‘We are pleased to announce that, as promised, Nigel Farage has handed over ownership of Reform UK to its members.’

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3 d. ago Why UK's voting system is a gift to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

At the last general election, Labour won two-thirds of the seats on a third of the votes. Reform is now getting into a position where it could disproportionally benefit from the UK’s voting system in the same way Labour did

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4 d. ago Another Scottish Tory councillor defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Renfrewshire councillor Alec Leishman becomes the sixth Conservative councillor to jump ship to the right wing outfit.

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5 d. ago Farage takes aim at net zero saying he wants to ‘reindustrialise Britain’

The Reform UK leader said ‘we need a change of attitude in Britain’

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5 d. ago Nigel Farage says Tories ‘not on the right in any measurable way’ and calls Labour government ‘miserable’ – UK politics live

Leader of Reform UK criticises Conservatives and ‘declinist’ Labour government in new attacksGood morning, defence secretary John Healey has finished speaking, so I can take a quick pause and actually welcome you to our rolling coverage of UK politics for Tuesday. Here are the headlines Defence secretary John Healey has announced what he described as the most significant defence reform for 50 years, in which reporting lines and budgets will be simplified, and a new “quad” of four senior leaders reporting directly to the minister appointedHealy said there were extraordinary people in the UK’s defence forces, but too often they were hampered by process, and there was a lack of direct accountability. He suggested his changes might bring about up to £10bn in savings to the taxpayer over the next decadeTransport secretary Heidi Alexander has said the UK should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine as part of any future peacekeeping forceThe rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at ...

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5 d. ago JD Vance branded an 'eejit' as John Swinney urged to intervene in buffer zones row

The US Vice President used a major speech to wrongly claim Scots could face prosecution for praying in their own homes.

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5 d. ago This is Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff

The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time. Ukrainian sovereignty is a cause close to rightwing heartsTiming is everything in politics. So when the leader of the opposition realised she was due to be making a speech heaping praise on Donald Trump, just as the president plunged her own country into a national security crisis, you might think even she would have hesitated.But seemingly nothing can keep Kemi Badenoch from a culture war, not even the threat of an actual war. So, at a rightwing conference in London on Monday morning, she duly ripped into corporate diversity policies, climate activism, Keir Starmer taking the knee four and a half years ago, and various other imagined threats to western civilisation that are not forcing Britain to consider deploying troops against them, before concluding triumphantly that when people ask her what difference a change of leader makes, her answer is, “Take a look at President Trump.”Gaby Hinsliff is ...

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