1 hour ago ‘They’re toxic but popular’: businesses wary as they head to Reform’s party conference

Nigel Farage will be wooing corporate guests at the NEC in Birmingham as his party aims to build on recent successesFags, booze, hunting and cryptocurrency: if the brochures for the Reform UK conference in Birmingham are anything to go by, executives turning up to see Nigel Farage’s party will find an eclectic mix.Starting on Friday, the party leading the opinion polls will hold its “next step” conference at the National Exhibition Centre, with a plan to show UK plc that it is the next party of government. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Nigel Farage welcomes Nadine Dorries as a 'big signing' after long

Former Conservative Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is joining forces with the Reform UK leader as he plots a path to Downing Street, it was revealed yesterday.

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6 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK on eve of party conference

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the ex-Conservative culture secretary said ‘the Tory Party is dead’.

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8 h. ago STEVE REED: No ideas Nigel Farage and his clueless crew don't have a plan for Britain

Environment Secretary Steve Reed warned that 'the hardworking public are going to pick up the tab for Nigel Farage’s vagueness, slogans and vacuity' ahead of Reform UK's conference

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8 h. ago Nigel Farage jets back from 'talking down Britain tour' in US for Reform conference

Nigel Farage will set out his vision for Britain at Reform’s annual conference - after comparing the UK to North Korea in an address to the House Judiciary Committee

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8 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK and declares ‘Tory party is dead’

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK

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8 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform declaring: 'The Tory Party is dead'

Former culture secretary becomes highest-profile Conservative defector to Nigel Farage’s party on eve of its national conference

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9 h. ago Calls for Nigel Farage to be hauled before MPs over Reform UK’s ‘assault on free press’

Reform UK have been accused of ‘blatant hypocrisy’ after Nigel Farage criticised free speech in the UK

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10 h. ago 'Trump Tower' stunt lights up Reform HQ as Nigel Farage slammed over 'foreign influence'

"Trump puppet" Nigel Farage should be put on a foreign influence watchlist after skipping Parliament to schmooze the President and his allies in Washington, the Lib Dems say

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10 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK and declares ‘I’m 100% behind Nigel Farage’

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK

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10 h. ago Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform

Dorries said "the Tory Party is dead"

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11 h. ago Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform as she declares: 'The Tory Party is dead'

Nadine Dorries has become the latest high-profile Conservative to defect to Reform UK, declaring: “The Tory Party is dead.”

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11 h. ago Nadine Dorries sensationally defects to Nigel Farage's Reform party and declares: 'The Tory Party is dead'

After months of secret negotiations, the former Conservative Culture Secretary is joining forces with the Reform leader as he plots a path to Downing Street.

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11 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform as she declares 'The Tory Party is dead'

Nadine Dorries is the latest high profile Conservative to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform, declaring: “The Tory Party is dead”.

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11 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Nigel Farage's Reform saying Tory Party is DEAD

Former I'm A Celeb star Nadine Dorries said the Tories 'cannot win the next election' as she confirmed she has switched sides to Nigel Farage's Reform

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15 h. ago This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10 | Owen Jones

A simple, terrible and obvious mistake is being made. The more Labour echoes Reform’s talking points, the more it strengthens themBritain isn’t sleepwalking into catastrophe; it’s charging towards it. Last year, a violent rightwing uprising tore through our streets – an attempted pogrom in which racists tried to burn asylum seekers alive, attacked homes and businesses thought to belong to migrants, petrol-bombed mosques and assaulted people of colour in broad daylight. That disgrace should hang permanently around the necks of the anti-migrant right, a warning of where scapegoating and toxic lies lead.Instead, the revolt succeeded. Anti-migrant rhetoric in politics and the press has grown more venomous. Reform UK now tops polls by a decisive margin. Its leader, Nigel Farage, raises the spectre of “major civil disorder” unless anti-migrant demands are met. Lucy Connolly – who was jailed after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire and is married to a former Conser...

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18 h. ago Nigel Farage strangely shows 'little signs of friendship' in grim Donald Trump photo

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage met with US President Donald Trump this week, and a telling photograph of the pair emerged, with an expert claiming it shows 'little signs of friendship'

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24 h. ago While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere | Rafael Behr

Far from No 10, Nigel Farage has been amassing power in the sprawling, networked space where 21st-century politics happensSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWith a buzz of activity in parliament and mandatory back-to-school metaphors, a new political season opens in Westminster, but is that where politics really happens? Yes, in terms of people making policy and law in buildings that are world-famous for that purpose, the SW1 postcode is where it is at.But the heart of the machine beats with a weak pulse. The UK state is heavily centralised by the standards of most democracies, yet the people at the centre don’t feel powerful. Ministers can’t enforce bin collections in remote areas or call a halt to Middle East wars but they are made to feel answerable for all that is ill in the world, from hyperlocal to geopolitical.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist ...

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37 h. ago 'At what point did we become North Korea?' Nigel Farage blasts Keir Starmer's 'awful, authoritarian' UK as Reform leader tells US politicians free speech is under threat

The Reform leader warned that Americans - including tech moguls - could face arrest at Heathrow over online content disliked by British authorities in the wake of the arrest of Graham Linehan.

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41 h. ago Keir Starmer blasts ‘disgraceful’ Nigel Farage for ‘badmouthing’ UK on Reform leader’s US visit

Sir Keir Starmer has slammed “disgraceful” Nigel Farage for “badmouthing” the UK, as the Reform leader skipped Prime Minister’s Questions to appear at the US congress.

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