4 h. ago Labour ‘can’t sugarcoat fact things aren’t going well’, Lucy Powell says

The deputy leadership contender said the party needs to start telling ‘a stronger story’.

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9 h. ago Moment asylum seeker 'threatens to come to England and "pop pop pop" Nigel Farage while making gun gesture'... and 'marry' Reform UK leader's sister 

This is the Afghan migrant accused of making threats to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok. Fayaz Khan, who is said to be 26, has a gun tattoo on his face. He denies the charge and is on trial in London.

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10 h. ago Nigel Farage's Reform compared to 1930s fascists by Michael Heseltine in scathing attack

Tory grandee Michael Heseltine likened Nigel Farage's Reform UK to fascist groups of the 1930s and lashed out at Kemi Badenoch's 'unforgivable' climate change plans

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10 h. ago Stop asking me about Nigel Farage! Kemi Badenoch clashes with interviewer as she says Reform 'is not a party of the right' amid poll woe

Conservative leader Mrs Badenoch said she was 'not interested' in talking about her Reform counterpart and wanted to discuss THE Tories, in a blunt response to Sky News .

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10 h. ago Badenoch refuses to say whether she would resign over poor results in May

Her comments came during a Party conference overshadowed by questions about her leadership and the challenge from Nigel Farage’s party.

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10 h. ago Kemi Badenoch refuses three times to answer if she admires Nigel Farage

The floundering Tory leader complained she was being asked questions about the Reform UK leader, instead telling a journalist they should ask questions about Keir Starmer

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11 h. ago Nigel Farage tells court migrant’s TikTok 'threat to kill him' was 'chilling'

Fayaz Khan, 26, appeared at Southwark Crown Court charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader

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13 h. ago Migrant threatening to kill me in TikTok video was chilling, Farage tells court

Fayaz Khan, 26, is charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader between October 12 and 15 last year.

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14 h. ago Nigel Farage tells court he was 'in fear for my life' after receiving death threats from Afghan migrant in TikTok video

Fayaz Khan, pictured, is accused of making threats to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok during his journey to the UK.

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15 h. ago 20 Tory councillors join Reform UK on eve of Conservative conference finale

Nigel Farage’s party unveiled a wave of local government defections.

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15 h. ago GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show LiveNot long ago, it would have been hard to believe a group of executives from a relatively small overseas broadcaster would be granted a meeting at the White House, let alone an audience with the president of the United States.Yet when a delegation from GB News – led by Nigel Farage – headed to Washington DC last month to meet Donald Trump’s team, it only confirmed that the Reform UK leader’s Maga connections provided the channel with significant access. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for one nation Conservatism?

The Tory leader’s shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a futureIn one popular reading of the history of Tory successes, the party’s last three election-winning prime ministers – John Major, David Cameron and Boris Johnson – all swept into Downing Street on unifying one-nation platforms.But for many people this year’s Tory conference, marked by its hardening rhetoric on asylum seekers and growing overtures to Nigel Farage’s brand of politics, feels a far cry from those broad principles. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Covid fraudsters urged to pay up before December or face ‘hit squad’

The Government has pledged to hit perpetrators with fines of up to 100% of the value of the money they swindled from the taxpayer.

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33 h. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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36 h. ago Kent ‘down to the bare bones’, says care chief amid council tax rise fears

Nigel Farage’s party ousted the Conservatives at Kent County Council (KCC) in May, with a promise to slash ‘wasteful spending’.

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39 h. ago Top Farage aide hints Conservatives could merge with Reform UK post

Gawain Towler also hinted Reform will have an open-door policy to Tory defectors

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41 h. ago Reform UK 'set to hike Kent council tax by 5% next year' amid claims DOGE

The local authority was one of 10 English councils that Nigel Farage's party seized control of at May's local elections.

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52 h. ago Kevin Maguire: 'Kemi Badenoch's Nigel Farage tribute act will crash Tory party'

Kevin Maguire argues that the Conservative Party veering further to the right, and into Reform UK territory, is an act of blind panic that could cost the Conversative Party even more votes

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66 h. ago Poll shows Starmer's 'fightback' Labour conference flopping with Reform extending lead to 13 POINTS and PM's personal ratings at another low

Keir Starmer was seen as having given himself some breathing space from mutinous MPs and activists after ramping up attacks on Nigel Farage in Liverpool last week.

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3 d. ago Starmer's chief of staff 'not behind PM's Nigel Farage racism jibe' but 'backs it 100 per cent'

Sources say No10's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has privately said he was not responsible for the Prime Minister's claim that Nigel Farage's migrants policy was racist.

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