29 h. ago Man City XI vs Aston Villa: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup, injury latest for Premier League

Changes expected for a huge clash in the Champions League race

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29 h. ago Costa Coffee customers furious and cry 'justice' as chain makes huge change in shops

Costa Coffee has made a big change, and it's safe to say it has not gone down well with customers

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30 h. ago Reform surge in local elections could hand Lib Dems seats and hammer Tories who have the 'most to lose', polling guru says

Professor John Curtice said Nigel Farage's party might not be the 'big winners' from the contests on May 1 despite high levels of support.

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40 h. ago Nigel Farage claims Labour's 'lunacy' Net Zero policies are the new Brexit

Nigel Farage and Ed Miliband squared off over Net Zero yesterday, with the Reform leader predicting the issue could become the 'new Brexit '.

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51 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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51 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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51 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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55 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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55 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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56 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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57 h. ago Dad's wake up call after collapsing in a supermarket next to his daughter

A health scare forced Kenny to make a huge change to his life

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63 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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65 h. ago Huge schools change this week to save parents £450 is 'something the Tories would never do'

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told the Mirror the Tories' only idea is giving private schools their tax breaks back - on the eve of free breakfast clubs opening at schools across England

Economics

66 h. ago Huge change to Wrestlemania 41 match as WWE legend drops out due to injury

Wrestling legend Rey Mysterio will not be competing at Wrestlemania 41 tonight, having had to pull out of his scheduled match last minute due to an injury suffered last night

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66 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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2 d. 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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2 d. ago Britain's Got Talent makes huge change to live shows for the first time ever

The new twist is sure to heighten tensions in this year's semi-finals

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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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