2 h. ago Nigel Farage vows to reverse Keir Starmer's cut to winter fuel payments as part of £85bn package

The Reform UK leader unveiled a string of policies in a major speech, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap and fully reinstating winter fuel payments.

Economics

8 h. ago Nigel Farage accused of ‘fantasy promises’ with expensive policy pledges

Reform UK leader unveils plans to reverse benefit cuts and bring in tax breaks without explaining how they would be fundedNigel Farage has been accused of leaving a multibillion-pound black hole at the heart of his party’s spending plans after unveiling a series of expensive policy pledges to be paid for by cutting nonexistent items of government spending.The Reform UK leader laid out a series of economic promises at a speech on Tuesday designed to take advantage of disquiet among Labour voters at the government’s policies on taxes and benefits. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago The Guardian view on Farage’s cynical pitch: Labour must be bolder to see off the threat | Editorial

The Reform UK leader spies a route to power through appealing to blue collar voters. His speech is another wake-up call for Sir Keir Starmer’s governmentLast July, concluding his election victory speech after winning in Clacton, Nigel Farage announced that after inflicting grievous damage on the Conservative party that night, Reform UK would now “be coming for Labour”. Since then, on issues such as the nationalisation of Britain’s beleaguered steel industry, Mr Farage has carefully positioned his party as sympathetic to working-class concerns and fears. His heavily-trailed speech on Tuesday, in Westminster, was the most direct attempt yet to present himself as a new spokesperson for Labour’s traditional blue-collar voters.The most talented and cynical political opportunist of his generation, Mr Farage knows where the openings lie. Labour has tied itself in unedifying knots over its deeply unpopular cuts to the winter fuel allowance, and agonised over reversing the Tories’ ...

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10 h. 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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10 h. 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.

Economics

12 h. ago Nigel Farage refuses to commit to keeping pensions triple lock if he wins next election

Reform UK leader unveils series of tax cuts without fully explaining how party would pay for themNigel Farage has refused to commit to keeping the pensions triple lock in place if he wins the next election, even as he unveiled a series of expensive tax cuts without fully explaining how his party would pay for them.The Reform UK leader said on Tuesday that if he became prime minister he might not keep the policy – which guarantees that the state pension rises by at least inflation, earnings or 2.5% a year, whichever is the highest. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Farage’s pledges to slash taxes don’t add up, top economists warn

Nigel Farage has pledged billions of pounds of tax cuts and painted Reform UK as the true ‘party of workers’

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12 h. ago Nigel Farage branded a 'poisonous man who doesn't understand Scotland' in row over Reform advert

Anas Sarwar said he had "fought against sectarianism all my adult life" after the Scottish Labour leader was subjected to a personal attack by the Reform UK chief.

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13 h. ago Farage fails to guarantee pensions triple lock but vows to axe benefits cap

Nigel Farage says Reform UK will scrap the two-child benefit cap and reverse fuel cuts but refuses to commit to maintaining the pension triple lock.

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13 h. ago Nigel Farage defends party's 'racist' ad attacking Labour's Anas Sarwar and accuses him of introducing 'sectarianism'

Nigel Farage has accused Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar of having 'introduced sectarianism into Scottish politics'.

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13 h. ago Which Reform UK policies did Nigel Farage confirm in his speech?

The Reform leader’s wide-ranging speech attacking Sir Keir Starmer’s government came after the party secured widespread support in local elections.

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13 h. 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...

Economics

13 h. ago 'At least she's real': Nigel Farage praises Angela Rayner amid suggestions she is Reform's greatest threat

The Reform UK leader said Angela Rayner was ‘real’ compared to other politicians on the left

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13 h. 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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13 h. ago John Swinney condemns Nigel Farage for defending 'racist' advert about Anas Sarwar

The First Minister spoke out during an increasingly ugly Holyrood by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse

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14 h. ago Farage declares Reform is ‘party of the workers’ as he vows to trash Starmer’s legacy

Nigel Farage challenged Sir Keir Starmer to a debate in a working man’s club in former Labour ‘red wall’ heartlands

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14 h. 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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14 h. ago Nigel Farage says Anas Sarwar brought 'sectarianism into Scottish politics' after advert backlash

The Reform leader has defended the controversial video

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14 h. ago Anas Sarwar hits back at 'poisonous' Nigel Farage after 'sectarianism' and 'racism' by

The Reform leader has defended the controversial video

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15 h. ago Nigel Farage accuses Anas Sarwar of 'introducing sectarianism into Scottish politics'

The Reform UK leader claimed "everybody in Scotland is having a go at us" as his party's campaigning tactics face a backlash.

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