84 m. ago Labour support in London at record low, new poll finds as Reeves Budget tax raid to hammer the city

Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK surges to 23% in the capital, ahead of the Tories on 20%, with Labour on 32%

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84 m. ago Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls“It was Trumpian,” said Mark Mansfield, editor and CEO of Nation.Cymru, a small English-language Welsh news service. “It has perhaps given us a flavour of how a Reform UK government would behave towards the media.”Mansfield is referring to what he described as an attempt by a figure at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party to “bully” his publication, but he believes a wider lesson might be learned. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Nigel Farage responds to claims of 'racism and antisemitism' made by former classmates

The Reform leader responded to allegations that he made pro-Hitler jokes while at school in a tense TV interview

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10 h. ago Nigel Farage says Reform isn't a 'police force' after Nathan Gill grilling at Welsh rally

The Reform UK leader said he'd had no contact with Gill since his arrest

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10 h. ago Farage says he never engaged in racism ‘with intent’ amid schoolboy allegations

The Reform UK leader directly responded to newspaper reports about his behaviour while at Dulwich College, south London, as a teenager.

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11 h. ago ‘Never in a hurtful or insulting way’: Nigel Farage responds to schoolboy racism claims

It comes after the Reform UK leader was accused of making racist and antisemitic comments to classmates during his school days

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11 h. ago Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’

Reform leader denies engaging in racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years agoNigel Farage has broken his silence nearly a week after he was accused by about 20 people of racism and antisemitism as a teenager, by saying he “never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody”.His remarks came after the publication of a detailed investigation by the Guardian in which many of his school contemporaries claimed to be victims of, or witnesses to, repeated incidents of deeply offensive behaviour. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Tense Nigel Farage skewered in TV clash as he breaks silence on racism allegations

Former classmates from Dulwich College alleged that Nigel Farage made pro-Hitler comments, joked about gas chambers, and put someone in detention for the colour of their skin

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14 h. ago Nigel Farage heading to Scotland in days to visit town at centre of migrant hotel protests

NIGEL Farage is heading north next week for a rally in a Scottish town that has become a flashpoint for anti-immigrant protests. The Reform UK leader will gather supporters in Falkirk on December 6 for a campaign event to mark six months until the Holyrood election. Some polls have tipped Mr Farage’s party to come...

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15 h. ago Tory row erupts over jibe comparing Reform logo to Nazi badge

Conservative leader intervenes after party chair’s controversial tweet about Nigel Farage’s party

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16 h. ago Pressure mounts on Nigel Farage to launch probe into Russian influence on Reform

Labour defence minister Luke Pollard has challenged Nigel Farage to prove that Nathan Gill - who was jailed for accepting Russian bribes - was a one-off case

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18 h. ago Nigel Farage heading to Scotland for 'major' Reform UK event ahead of Holyrood election

The Reform UK leader will speak at a Falkirk hotel just a short distance from where regular anti-migration protests have been held in the town.

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22 h. ago Nigel Farage blasted over 'Russia problem' as minister launches blistering attack

Business Secretary Peter Kyle accused Nigel Farage of 'talking out of both sides of his mouth' as he claimed there is a pro-Russia 'culture' inside Reform UK

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23 h. ago Vicious row as Tory chairman compares Nigel Farage's Reform UK to Nazis

Kevin Hollinrake posted a picture of Adolf Hitler's Golden Party Badge in response to a tweet by Nigel Farage that included a golden Reform UK logo - sparking a furious backlash

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25 h. ago I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges When I see the allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his schooldays, I can’t say I am greatly surprised. There are those who believe that the Reform UK leader’s persona must have been developed to win over working-class voters, or the “red wall”. I know that it is quite in keeping with the sentiments expressed by plenty of young men in elite institutions like English public schools – the kind of men who run the world.Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics “Gas ’em all”. I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his...

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25 h. ago I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges When I see the allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his schooldays, I can’t say I am greatly surprised. There are those who believe that the Reform UK leader’s persona must have been developed to win over working-class voters, or the “red wall”. I know that it is quite in keeping with the sentiments expressed by plenty of young men in elite institutions like English public schools – the kind of men who run the world.Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics “Gas ’em all”. I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his...

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37 h. ago Reform's new small business tsar accused of spreading 'dangerous conspiracies'

Kevin Byrne, who spoke alongside Nigel Farage at a party event earlier this month, called Covid vaccinations the 'crime of the century' in one Facebook post this summer

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41 h. ago Seven out of 10 Tories believe Conservative party will prop up a Farage government

With polling suggesting the Tories are facing a wipeout, a survey of Conservative Party members by ConHome reveals that they support the idea of a deal with Reform UK

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64 h. ago Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?

Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnessesNigel Farage has denied – albeit through a spokesperson – that he ever said anything racist or antisemitic when he was a teenager.The Guardian has spoken to 20 of his contemporaries while at Dulwich College in south London who say otherwise – more than half of them on the record. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’What I struggle to understand, I say to Danny Kruger in his office at Reform UK HQ, is why a serious Conservative, with a glittering future like yours, would defect to a party led by Nigel Farage? Indeed, the defection of Kruger, a heavy-weight on the Conservative right who served on the front bench and been tipped as a possible future leader, was seen as a major coup for Reform, catching commentators off-guard. Unlike previous deserters – Andrea Jenkyns, Jake Berry, Nadine Dorries – he was a sitting MP in a safe Tory seat. Plus, he was untarnished by the boisterous excesses of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.But we’ve been around the houses a few times on this. He’s talked about his philosophy (Burkean), his Christianity (evangelical), thrown out words like “family”, “community”, “nation”. ...

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