5 h. ago Inside the UK’s first Reform pub with beer, black pudding baps and Belinda Carlisle

Once a Conservative Party social club, The Talbot in Blackpool has defected to Reform. Barney Davis heads north to see what all the fuss is about

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25 h. ago Reform UK's new mayors take centre stage: Nigel Farage's troops join other regional leaders for talks with Angela Rayner... as Deputy PM warns 'you have to deliver'

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Greater Lincolnshire mayor, and Luke Campbell, the Hull and East Yorkshire mayor, both attended the meeting alongside 12 other mayors.

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48 h. ago Reform advert targeting Anas Sarwar branded 'blatantly racist' by Scottish Labour

A social media advert by Reform UK has been branded “blatantly racist” by Scottish Labour.

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69 h. ago The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’ | Editorial

Three decades on from Robert Putnam’s account of fraying social ties in the US, new research in Britain identifies similar dangersThirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert Putnam has a right to feel vindicated. In a lecture this spring, Prof Putnam, now 84, warned his audience that, amid levels of polarisation and distrust higher than at any time since the civil war, the US was “in danger of going to hell in a handcart”.Britain is still, thankfully, a long way from the poisonous toxicity of Trump-era America, notwithstanding the ominous rise of Reform and Nigel Farage. But research published this week by the More in Common polling group paints a worrying portrait of communities in which there is a widespread sense of social disconnection, high levels of distrust among the young and a felt loss of shared spaces and rituals.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage mocked by Scots MP after Reform leader jets off on holiday and misses EU debate

Farage has made at least nine trips abroad since he was elected as MP for Clacton last year.

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage admits he's skipping the Commons this week as he's on HOLIDAY

The Reform UK leader - who is reported to be in France - was forced to admit he is away from Westminster after facing growing questions over his absence.

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4 d. ago Panic stations for Kemi Badenoch as Tories slump to FOURTH in poll

YouGov research found the Conservatives on just 16 per cent support, down two points over the past week.

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer warns rebellious Labour MPs that Reform is now their 'main rival' and they have a 'moral duty' to stop Nigel Farage becoming PM

The Prime Minister lashed out at the Reform leader as 'a state-slashing, NHS-privatising Putin apologist' as faced the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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6 d. ago Leading Scottish think tank changes name to avoid clash with Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Reform Scotland has rebranded and will now be known as Enlighten.

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6 d. ago Reform UK launches war on LTNs: Nigel Farage's party will axe hated green roads schemes in all 10 of its newly

LTNs were introduced in 2020 and have been championed by politicians like London mayor Sadiq Khan as being positive for pedestrians and cyclists.

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6 d. ago Reform steps up call for rape gang inquiries after triumph in council polls

Nigel Farage plans to mobilise his new regional power base of Reform councillors to try to force the Government to act on the scandal of child sex grooming gangs .

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer 'says Tories are finished and Nigel Farage's Reform are real opposition'

A source with knowledge of Keir Starmer's thinking has said Nigel Farage's Reform are the 'real opposition' and the Tories are finished after brutal attacks on Kemi Badenoch

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage's Reform is more of a threat to Labour in Scotland, says Professor Sir John Curtice

In an exclusive interview with The Steamie podcast, we take a look at what to expect in the 2026 Holyrood election.

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9 d. ago Starmer refuses to guarantee he will fight next general election amid growing threat from Reform UK

The prime minister said ‘you’re getting way ahead of me’ when asked whether he would fight the next election

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9 d. ago SNP accuses Keir Starmer of 'lying down' for Nigel Farage over immigration as Reform close in on Labour

The SNP government has hit out as Labour for pandering to Reform UK on immigration.

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1 week ago Labour to pump hundreds of millions of pounds into 'left behind' areas where Reform won councils at local elections to see off Farage threat

Ministers are planning action as Sir Keir Starmer fights off a rebellion against his effort to regain the upper hand over Reform, which has made gains in many former Labour heartlands.

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1 week ago Starmer mocked by Farage for ‘learning a great deal’ from Reform UK after immigration backlash

It came after furious backlash to the prime minister's claim that the UK risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’

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1 week ago Farage claims Starmer learning from Reform UK as PM defends immigration speech

Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts criticised the language used by the Prime Minister, saying ‘somebody here has to call this out’.

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1 week ago Farage says Starmer ‘learning a great deal from Reform’ as PM defends immigration speech – UK politics live

Reform leader asks PM to declare a national emergency at the bordersHere is the list of MPs down to ask a question at PMQs, which starts at noon.In March Reform UK reported Rupert Lowe (at the time one of their five MPs) to the police, claiming he had threatened the party chair, Zia Yusuf, with violence. Reform UK announced the news shortly after Lowe gave a newspaper interview criticising Nigel Farage, the party leader,Following a thorough and detailed review of the evidence in relation to an allegation of threats, we have decided that no criminal charges should be brought against a sitting MP.Having considered a number of witness statements, we have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.If Farage were ever to control the vast power of the British state, I believe he would not hesitate to do to his adversaries what they have tried to do to me. With real power, I fear he would wield that immense responsibility to crush dissent - ...

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1 week ago PMQs live: Farage claims Starmer ‘learning a great deal’ from Reform on immigration

Prime minister facing backlash from members of his own party after immigration speech

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