4 h. ago Nigel Farage's Reform UK party would win a General Election held now, poll shows

The More in Common polling of over 16,000 voters suggests Labour could lose 246 MPs, including 10 Cabinet ministers, with major losses in the so-called red wall

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4 h. ago Swinney warns against ‘simple solutions’ offered by Reform UK

The Scottish First Minister said Nigel Farage’s party was contributing to the undermining of ‘some of the central values of our society’.

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4 h. ago Reform UK candidate backed means testing winter fuel payments despite Nigel Farage calling move ‘vindictive’

Sarah Pochin said winter fuel payments should go to those who need it and not those who don’t

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8 h. ago Rise of 'Marmite' Nigel Farage is 'good news' for John Swinney ahead of election

Professor John Curtice said the SNP "don't really have to worry" about losing supporters to Nigel Farage - unlike Scottish Labour and the Conservatives.

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8 h. ago Why Reform winning big in the local elections could backfire for Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage needs to win big in the local elections and Runcorn by-election on 1 May to prove it is a potential party of government. But The Independent’s political editor David Maddox explains why victory could ultimately be Farage’s undoing

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9 h. ago The May elections are a perfect opportunity for Nigel Farage to peddle his politics of grievance | Andrew Rawnlsey

An unpopular government and floundering official opposition creates fertile territory for ReformFor his next trick, perhaps Comrade Farage will belt out all the verses of The Red Flag and tell us that his favourite book is The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Brother Nigel has popped up on the government’s left flank by demanding the immediate nationalisation of the steel industry. He’s also expressed a solidarity with trades unionists hitherto undetected in this longtime admirer of Margaret Thatcher.At an event at a working men’s club in one of the more deprived wards of County Durham, the old fraud even claimed to have a personal affinity with steelworkers because he used to be in the “metals business” himself. This was a disingenuous reference to his time as a trader at the London Metal Exchange, which involved long lunches in the City fuelled with copious quantities of port. Or maybe he was thinking of his gig as a paid “brand ambassador” for a firm that deals in gold bullion. ...

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16 h. ago Nigel Farage just as likely to be next PM as Keir Starmer, poll finds

The survey, by More in Common, reveals that the Reform UK leader is in joint poll position with Sir Keir Starmer to make it to Downing Street in four years time.

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19 h. ago Miliband hits back at Farage over ‘nonsense and lies’ about net zero

The Energy Secretary said both Reform UK and the Tories were prepared to concoct falsehoods to ‘pursue their ideological agenda.’

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23 h. ago Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’

The energy secretary has accused Reform UK’s leader of peddling dangerous falsehoods about renewable power• Tories and Reform use the steel crisis to knock clean energy. They’re wrong: it will secure all our futuresEd Miliband has torn into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous “nonsense and lies” by suggesting the UK’s net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain’s businesses, including its steel industry.Cabinet ministers are determined to fight back against the way Reform UK and the Conservatives have unceremoniously lambasted the climate crisis agenda for what they believe are nakedly political reasons before important local elections next month. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Voices: Nigel Farage’s party has been in talks with Liz Truss: Why this is a big mistake for Reform

The Reform leader has been tactically astute in his appeal to disillusioned Labour voters – until now, says John Rentoul

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28 h. ago Nigel Farage says Reform would prefer SNP to win next Holyrood election instead of Labour

The Reform UK leader has ruled out his party supporting any moves to make Anas Sarwar the next First Minister.

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34 h. ago BRIAN READE: 'Don't fall for Nigel Farage's latest rebrand, he'll never fix Britain'

Pollsters are predicting big wins for Reform UK at next month's election, warns Brian Reade, but there are a few glaring truths voters should keep in mind

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53 h. ago Reform UK 'in talks with Liz Truss' as Nigel Farage looks to take on 'The Blob'

After winning five seats at last summer's general election, Reform are seeking to win hundreds of council seats at next month's local elections in England.

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3 d. ago Reform row: Rupert Lowe threatens to sue Nigel Farage for defamation

Rupert Lowe said he has instructed lawyers to issue letters of claim for defamation against Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage, chairman Zia Yusuf and chief whip Lee Anderson

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3 d. ago Rupert Lowe says he has instructed solicitors to begin defamation claims

It comes after Mr Lowe was suspended as a Reform MP in March.

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3 d. ago Swinney worried by ‘high likelihood’ Farage could become next PM

The First Minister said a Reform UK government would be ‘bad for all of us’.

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3 d. ago John Swinney warns of 'high' chance Nigel Farage will be the UK's next Prime Minister

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Record, the First Minister also spoke about the two child benefit cap, the NHS and how he nearly retired.

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4 d. ago DAN HODGES: The REAL reason Kemi Badenoch has jumped on the bandwagon of woman jailed over racist tweets

Just how far is Kemi Badenoch planning to go to stop Nigel Farage ? Based on her support for Lucy Connolly, the answer is: as far as she has to.

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4 d. ago UK's teaching union is condemned for claim that Reform is 'racist and Far Right' and accused of indocrinating children with 'Marxist' ideology

Delegates at the NEU's annual conference demanded its political funds be used to oppose Nigel Farage 's candidates.

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5 d. ago Afghan migrant with AK47 face tattoo threatened to kill Nigel Farage in TikTok video making gun gesture and saying 'pop, pop' before taking dinghy across Channel to Britain, court told

An Afghan migrant threatened to shoot Nigel Farage in a TikTok video where he made a gun gesture and said 'pop, pop' before crossing the Channel, a court has heard.

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