5 h. ago Reform’s conference has the energy of a MAGA tribute act – but write off Farage at your peril

There was a palpable sense that Nigel Farage really could be Britain’s next prime minister at this year’s Reform conference - but is the party is ready? Not everyone was convinced, writes Millie Cooke from the NEC in Birmingham

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5 h. ago ‘Farage No. 10’: All the merch being sold at the Reform party conference in Birmingham

‘Football-style’ merch has taken the lead at this year’s party conference

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7 h. ago Reform UK mayor breaks into song in sequin outfit and everyone says same thing

Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns - who branded herself "a bit of a rebel" - broke into song in a sequinned blue jumpsuit singing about 'insomniacs' at a Reform UK conference

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15 h. ago Farage to close Reform conference after telling activists to be ready for an election

Reform UK leader to close event having said party’s successes are ‘only the beginning’.

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17 h. ago Climate protesters removed from Reform conference after heckling Nigel Farage

The protesters from Climate Resistance targeted the Reform leader to accuse him of working for super-rich donors.

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18 h. ago Moment Nigel Farage roars with laughter as 'boring' hecklers are removed from Reform's fiery conference

The Reform UK leader, 61, took to the stage at the sold-out event in a pastel blue suit to match the political party's logo and was mid-way though a speech when a ruckus broke out in the crowd.

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19 h. ago Five weirdest things we saw at Reform Conference – double pints, Farage gaffe and fireworks

Intrepid Daily Star reporter Sian Hewitt bravely visited the Reform Conference for the first day of the annual extravaganza - and this is what she spotted

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21 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: By the time she reached the lectern, Dame Andrea

On a day of dizzying politics, nothing quite topped Dame Andrea Jenkyns's arrival on stage at Reform's party conference.

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24 h. ago We are on course to win a general election in two years, triumphant Farage tells his party 

The Reform leader used his keynote address at his party's confernece in Birmingham to twist the knife into Labour's wounds following the Deputy Prime Minister's exit.

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24 h. ago Nadine Dorries issues rallying call for Tory members to 'do the right thing' and copy her by switching to Reform as ex

The former Conservative minister, who served in Boris Johnson 's Cabinet, spoke at Reform's conference in Birmingham following her defection to Nigel Farage 's party.

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24 h. ago Andrea Jenkyns belts out own song in bizarre Reform conference entrance

Dame Andrea Jenkyns walked onstage at the Reform UK conference, belting out a song entitled "Insomniac" that she said she wrote.

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24 h. ago Nigel Farage: 'Reform UK will take winning London and ousting Sadiq Khan seriously'

Reform leader encourages members to volunteer as councillor candidates ahead of the local elections in May next year

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24 h. ago Moment Dame Andrea Jenkyns makes rock star entrance to Reform UK conference in a blue sparkly jumpsuit singing 'I'm an insomniac' song she co

Wearing a sparkly blue jumpsuit, the Reform UK Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire belted out 'I'm an insomniac' to a sell-out crowd at the party's rally in Birmingham today.

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25 h. ago Farage no. 10: Reform selling football shirts in party colours at Birmingham conference

Reform fans are queueing up to buy the football shirt of their politician as merch flies off the shelves

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25 h. ago 'It's happening': Nigel Farage says he could be PM as early as 2027 as he slams Labour as 'not fit to govern' in wake of Angela Rayner's resignation

The Reform leader used his keynote address at his party's confernece in Birmingham to twist the knife into Labour's wounds following the Deputy Prime Minister's exit.

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25 h. ago Farage tells members to expect election in next two years as Rayner quits

Reform UK’s leader has told his party’s conference in Birmingham that progress made in the last year is only the beginning.

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25 h. ago Farage predicts 2027 general election in warning over Labour ‘rift’

Nigel Farage said he thinks there is "every chance now of a general election happening in 2027" as he addressed Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham shortly after Angela Rayner resigned on Friday, 5 September.

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25 h. ago Rayner’s resignation shows this government is worse than the last, Farage declares in Reform conference speech

Angela Rayner sensationally quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary just one hour before Nigel Farage took to the stage in Birmingham

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26 h. ago Watch live: Farage addresses Reform UK party conference after Rayner resigns

Watch live as Nigel Farage delivers a speech at the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham on Friday (5 September).

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26 h. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign 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 morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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