82 m. ago Another Scottish Tories councillor defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Another councillor has defected from the Scottish Conservatives to Reform UK

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3 h. ago Tenth Scottish Tory councillor defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

South Lanarkshire councillor Poppy Corbett has become the latest member of local government to join Nigel Farage's party from the Conservatives.

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4 h. ago Farage claims Trump’s Ukraine approach is ‘turning Putin into a winner’

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from the Trump administration’s approach to a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire deal, claiming it is ‘turning Putin into a winner’.

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4 h. ago Farage confirms he wants new NHS funding model but Labour says plan would lead to huge patient bills – UK politics live

Nigel Farage has tried to fend off claims that Reform UK would force people to pay to see a doctorNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, also told Today that the UK should negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the US. This should include agriculture, he said. Farage acknowledged that in the past talks on this have been held up by Britain not wanting to allow food imports produced to America’s less rigorous standards, but he claimed the solution was just to give consumers a choice. He said:Now there’s been some concern about chlorine-treated chicken etc, but there is an answer to that which is label things, let consumers decide I would allow consumers in America to buy our products and consumers here to buy their products, and provided we have the right labelling, that’s good.It looks like Nigel Farage has had the full indoctrination at Mar-a-Lago. No one in this country wants chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves.Farage wants to sell out our hard-working British farmers for...

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5 h. ago Chlorinated chicken: Is it safe and will it be sold in British supermarkets?

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he would agree to allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US

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6 h. ago Nigel Farage wants huge change to how NHS is paid for that would hit families in the pocket

Nigel Farage has suggested that some British families could be forced to pay health insurance to use the NHS if he was Prime Minister - but Labour analysis shows eyewatering costs

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6 h. ago Farage distances himself from Trump approach to Ukraine ceasefire

The Reform UK leader has previously accused the West of provoking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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22 h. ago Nigel Farage in sexism row over '1970s' comments about women's 'life choices'

Asked if Reform UK could use more women senior roles, the party leader said: "I've spent my entire life trying to appeal to women - I've had a bit of trouble with them once or twice"

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22 h. ago Nigel Farage on how the UK has 'blown it' on US tariffs and why he won't be 'bullied' by Elon Musk

The Reform UK leader also ruled out a deal with the Tories saying ‘we despise them’ and branding Conservative MPs ‘stuffy, boring old bastards’

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22 h. ago Farage brands Tories ‘stuffy’ and ‘boring’ as he talks up Reform vote chances

Mr Farage told journalists in Westminster he found the House of Commons ‘very odd’, and claimed the European Parliament had been ‘better organised’.

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23 h. ago Farage rails against equality policies and says he is ‘not a fan’ of Andrew Tate

The Reform UK leader praised Donald Trump’s US administration for scrapping policies aimed at improving equality in American workplaces.

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24 h. ago Nigel Farage rules out election deal with Tories branding them 'stuffy boring old b******s' and claiming Net Zero will be major vote battleground

The Reform leader said he would rather his party replaced the Tories as the home of rightwing voters and questioned counterpart Kemi Badenoch 's work ethic in a scathing attack.

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40 h. ago Nigel Farage is 'paid an unspecified sum' to settle with NatWest in debanking scandal

It is understood that after NatWest agreed to pay Farage damages he has now withdrawn the threat of potential civil and criminal proceedings.

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43 h. ago Farage receives NatWest apology in settlement over debanking dispute

The bank has apologised to the Reform UK leader and the terms of the agreement are confidential, according to a joint statement.

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45 h. ago Nigel Farage says ‘spirit of Cromwell alive and well’ as he slams smoking ban

The MP for Clacton said: ‘There are some of us that like a smoke. We do. We even go for a few pints at a pub.’

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52 h. ago Sir John Curtice: 'Inevitable' the SNP will be at the core of next Scottish Government

The polling guru also says the independence debate could be reignited thanks to the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

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54 h. ago ‘A capitalistic cowardice’: big law firms being threatened by Trump face pressure to speak out

Trump signed executive orders aimed at firms challenging his administration’s priorities, roiling the legal communityDonald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms and attorneys who challenge his priorities are roiling the legal community, with some capitulating to the administration’s demands amid mounting pressure on the US’s biggest firms to speak out.The president signed an executive order on Tuesday targeting the firm Jenner & Block over its previous employment of Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor who worked on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s connections to Russia. The order came after Trump issued similar executive orders targeting three other firms – Covington and Burling, Perkins Coie, and Paul Weiss – over their representation of his political rivals. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago 'Credible evidence' in harassment claims against MP Rupert Lowe found by KC, Reform say

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe lost the Reform whip earlier this month amid allegations

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3 d. ago Kemi Badenoch is 'not doing enough' to earn a hearing from voters says only Tory metro mayor Lord Houchen ahead of local elections

Lord Ben Houchen hit out at the leadership, saying it needed to start putting forward concrete Tory ideas now to help see off the threat from Nigel Farage's Reform UK.

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3 d. ago What is Dominic Cummings doing now, as he breaks silence following dinner with Nigel Farage?

The former adviser speaks out for the first time since having secret dinner with Reform Party leader Nigel Farage

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