8 d. ago Voices: How Labour’s spending review was shaped by Reform UK

The chancellor insisted her choices were “Labour choices.” But as I watched her deliver her statement, I couldn’t help thinking that much of it was aimed at seeing off the rising threat to Labour from Nigel Farage, writes Andrew Grice

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1 week ago Voices: What can Reform do to shift the idea it is the ‘Nigel Party’?

The loss of a Scottish parliament by-election that Farage had hoped to win, coupled with the resignation of his chairman amid a row about banning the burqa, could reshape the electoral fortunes of all parties, says Andrew Grice

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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago Scottish Labour MSP issues message for ‘Farage’s mob’ after shock by

A newly-elected MSP sent a brutal message to Nigel Farage’s “mob” following a surprise Scottish Labour win at a by-election on Friday (6 June).

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2 w. ago Farage Reform UK gunning for shock breakthrough in Scotland in 'two horse' by

Reform UK is trying to jump from 0.2% of the vote to challenge the Scottish National Party and Labour for the Hamilton Larkhall and Stonehouse seat

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2 w. ago Voices: Has Scotland fallen for English nationalist Nigel Farage?

If Reform performs well in the Hamilton by-election – a Scottish Parliamentary seat that Labour ought to be able to take from the beleaguered SNP – the symbolism will send a message directly to the heart of Downing Street, says John Rentoul

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage Reform UK gunning for shock breakthrough in Scotland in 'two horse' by

Reform UK is trying to jump from 0.2% of the vote to challenge the Scottish National Party and Labour for the Hamilton Larkhall and Stonehouse seat

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2 w. ago Another poll shows Reform surge easing as Labour claws back ground

More in Common found support for Nigel Farage 's party had fallen three points in the past week, to 28 per cent.

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2 w. ago Pollster warns of ‘political earthquake in UK’ after polls show Farage could be PM

The latest Electoral Calculus forecast shows Nigel Farage would have a 74-seat majority if an election were held tomorrow

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2 w. ago Revealed: How Farage’s £80bn tax cuts would benefit the richest most

Exclusive: Calculations for The Independent reveal the richest tenth of the population would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10 per cent from Reform’s tax plans

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2 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Farage abortion plans would have ‘catastrophic consequences for women’

Exclusive: Campaigners have raised concerns about Nigel Farage’s calls for stricter abortion laws

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago How WILL you pay for that, Nigel? Farage admits Reform's costings might be 'optimistic' as he vows '£80bn' tax cut while axing two

Nigel Farage trolled that Keir Starmer is 'terrified' of the threat from the insurgents as he committed to scrap the two-child benefit cap and fully restore winter fuel payments.

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3 w. ago Reform UK’s income tax plans ‘to cost up to £80bn’ warns IFS – UK politics live

Research institute says costs of plan to exclude those earning less than £20k from the tax will dwarf those of party’s winter fuel and two-child benefit changesThe co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales, Adrian Ramsay, has renewed his call for Russia to face greater sanctions. Posting to social media, the MP for Waveney Valley said “Putin has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian civilians because he thinks he’ll face no consequences. Much tougher sanctions are urgently needed to bring him into serious peace talks to end this horrific war.”As well as appearing on the media round today, shadow chancellor Mel Stride has written for the Daily Mail, saying that the Conservatives continue to back the two-child benefit cap. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Why after decades pushing rightwing causes, Farage has made a handbrake turn to the left

After around three decades in politics, Nigel Farage has begun to adopt leftwing policies. Political Editor David Maddox explains why

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3 w. ago Nigel Farage admits depicting Angela Rayner as cow in abbatoir ‘not very funny’

Nigel Farage has said Reform activists depicting female cabinet ministers as cows to be slaughtered is “probably not very funny”.

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