84 m. ago Voters deserting Labour and Tories as Reform to claim hundreds of seats at local elections, top pollster says

Exclusive: Professor Sir John Curtice said the big winner of the local elections is already Nigel Farage who he claimed is ‘murdering the Tories’

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2 h. ago Tory peer Ben Houchen says party might form governing coalition with Nigel Farage's Reform after next election to kick Labour out of power

Lord Ben Houchen said there would have to be a 'conversation' about a pact of some kind with Nigel Farage 's party if it meant booting Labour out of Downing Street after a single term.

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2 h. ago Labour peer says party 'will get its head kicked in' by Reform in local elections and must 'stop talking gibberish about diversity'

Maurice Glasman, the founder of the influential Blue Labour group, issued a grave warning days before the local elections in which Nigel Farage 's party is expected to make significant gains.

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2 h. ago Badenoch ‘not worried’ donor announcing £1m for Reform could be first of many

It has been reported that Bassim Haidar has announced he is giving £1 million to Reform.

Economics

9 h. ago Union warns axing energy jobs will win Reform Scottish votes

GMB Scotland secretary Louise Gilmour believes Nigel Farage will be the big winner if the offshore industry is not protected.

Events

17 h. ago NIGEL FARAGE: If I become the next Prime Minister, I'll be deporter

Britain is broken. These words are uttered with increasing regularity by millions of voters for the simple reason that they happen to be true.

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18 h. ago A protest vote is an important democratic safety valve, but be careful how you use it

Editorial: Nigel Farage’s party is expected to do well on Thursday as voters turn away from Labour and the Conservatives

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29 h. ago In Kent, the ‘silent Reform voter’ may give Nigel Farage his greatest victory

On the campaign trail in Ramsgate, the Reform leader was keen to talk immigration and his distrust of the Tories Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Is Britain on the brink of a Reformquake? ROBERT HARDMAN hit the campaign trail up north and toured Kent with Farage as his party tops the polls

He might be standing beneath the White Cliffs of Dover in his Union Jack socks pledging to erase wokery from every branch of the public sector, yet Nigel Farage is presenting himself as the new Keir.

Society

43 h. ago Nigel Farage under pressure over Reform candidate's vile Hitler post

Labour has said that unless Reform condones 'extreme views', voters will think that it shares them after campaign group Hope Not Hate claim to have unearthed a number of alarming cases

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47 h. ago Fact check: Reform UK’s council election claim, Pope Francis and St George’s Day

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

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47 h. ago Reform UK candidate at next week's local elections was last year convicted of £5,000 council tax fraud

Martyn Cubitt is standing for Nigel Farage 's party for the Burwell division of Cambridgeshire County Council next Thursday.

Economics

53 h. ago James Cleverly declines to rule out another shot at Tory leadership: 'I just say, never say never again'

He urged the Conservatives to stop ‘obsessing’ about Reform UK

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56 h. ago We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green? | Gaby Hinsliff

Desire for a politics that cares about global and local injustice is sharpening the political gender divideSometimes a political backlash doesn’t take the shape you expect. Though there are times when it goes off like a firework, as young men’s TikTok-fuelled surge of enthusiasm for Nigel Farage did last summer, sometimes it’s more of a long, slow burn. The most underexplored form of revolt against mainstream politics right now is the second kind, involving not angry young men lurching rightwards but anxious young women turning, if anything, more sharply left.Almost a quarter of women aged 18 to 24 voted Green last July, roughly double the number of young men who voted Reform, though predictably it’s the latter who have since got all the attention. While the big parties chased avidly after so-called Waitrose women, well-heeled home counties matrons considering defecting from the Tories, they had little to say to their daughters. So it was the Greens who ended up cornering the market...

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68 h. ago Farage accused of being ‘out of touch’ after ‘overdiagnosis’ comments

The Reform leader told a local elections campaign event that overdiagnosis is ‘creating a class of victims’ in the UK.

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68 h. ago Nigel Farage blasted over 'fake news' claim about children's health

Nigel Farage was branded 'completely out of touch' and accused of spreading fake news after crass claims that mental illness is being 'overdiagnosed' by GPs

Society

68 h. ago Campaigners criticise Farage’s claims that UK is ‘massively overdiagnosing’ mental illness

Charity say that Reform leader is ‘wildly inaccurate’ after he says system is creating a ‘class of victims’Nigel Farage says the UK is “massively overdiagnosing those with mental illness problems” and creating a “class of victims”.In comments, which have drawn criticism from campaigners and charities, the leader of Reform UK said it was too easy to get a mental health diagnosis from a GP. Continue reading...

Science

68 h. ago Charities attack Farage claims of ‘mental illness problems’ overdiagnosis

Reform leader accused of ‘wildly inaccurate’ remarks as he complains about UK creating ‘class of victims’Nigel Farage says the UK is “massively overdiagnosing those with mental illness problems” and creating a “class of victims”.In comments, which have drawn criticism from campaigners and charities, the leader of Reform UK said it was too easy to get a mental health diagnosis from a GP. Continue reading...

Events

69 h. ago Nigel Farage clashes with charities as he claims GPs are 'massively overdiagnosing' children with special educational needs and disabilities

Ahead of next week's local elections , the Reform UK leader said there was a 'massive problem' among councils due to soaring demand for SEND services.

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2 d. ago Nigel Farage demands creation of 'minister for deportations' and dismisses talk of Tory election pact saying it would trigger Reform 'revolt'

The Reform UK leader used a campaign speech to demand that 'somebody somewhere in government' is held accountable for the matter.

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