22 h. ago Nigel Farage as British PM would put Irish unity ‘centre stage’ – former premier

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach last year, said it is possible Mr Farage will be prime minister in four years or nine years time.

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23 h. ago Nine years on from Brexit, most Brits want to see the UK return to the EU

Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the Conservative Party all blamed by voters who think the UK’s departure from the European Union has been a failure

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27 h. ago Jodie Marsh dances with Nigel Farage as he tries to hide face from camera

Jodie Marsh hosted a charity event to support her Fripp Farm Animal Sanctuary earlier this week, and controversial politician Nigel Farage was among the attendees

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28 h. ago John Major urges misconduct crackdown, warning of falling political standards

The former prime minister set out a code of conduct which all public servants and officials must abide by to address a series of sleaze scandals.

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47 h. ago Renfrewshire Council decision to stop using X branded 'baffling' by Reform UK councillor

Jamie McGuire, who defected from Labour to Nigel Farage's party, has urged the local authority to "reverse" the step.

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48 h. ago Horny cheats name Nigel Farage 'UK's sexiest' MP with Angela Rayner

Nigel Farage and Angela Rayner are the UK's sexiest politicians, according to a poll. Tory heartthrobs beat Labour as the sexiest party overall, with Reform UK coming third

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49 h. ago Nigel Farage's Reform UK tops Senedd election poll for first time

Another poll has suggested Labour will be decimated at the Senedd election

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58 h. ago Why Keir Starmer made Nigel Farage Britain’s ‘real opposition’

PM’s decision was controversial with some Labour strategists fearing it gave Reform UK too much credibility

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3 d. ago 'Politics on the level of pub b*llshit' Writer attacks Nigel Farage's vision for Wales

"Ludicrous, condescending, half-baked, opportunistic and plain stupid"

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3 d. ago The reeling in of Reform: Nigel Farage sees poll lead halved in a week amid infighting and backing for benefits splurge

YouGov research put Nigel Farage's insurgents on 27 per cent - down two points from last week.

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3 d. ago Nick Cave says he declined Morrissey’s request to sing ‘silly anti

Responding to a fan question, the singer said he felt the words were ‘unnecessarily provocative’ but called Morrissey ‘probably the best lyricist of his generation’Nick Cave has said that he turned down Morrissey’s request to appear on a new song in 2024, claiming that the former Smiths frontman wanted him to sing “an unnecessarily provocative and slightly silly anti-woke screed he had written”.In response to a fan question on his Red Hand Files site about his relationship with the singer, Cave said that “although I suppose I agreed with the sentiment on some level, it just wasn’t my thing. I try to keep politics, cultural or otherwise, out of the music I am involved with. I find that it has a diminishing effect and is antithetical to whatever it is I am trying to achieve.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Business secretary warned he faces prosecution if he repeats false CV claims

The business secretary was investigated by the solicitors’ watchdog over his claims

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4 d. ago Loch Lomond Flamingo Land tycoon backed Reform UK and donated £162,500 to the Tories

EXCLUSIVE: Gordon Gibb backed Nigel Farage's party at the general election as he backed cuts to immigration and tax.

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4 d. ago Jodie Marsh dances with Nigel Farage at animal fundraiser with most unusual guest list

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and former model Jodie Marsh were all smiles as they took over the dance floor with fellow famous faces, and partied at Jodie's fundraising bash

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5 d. ago British politics is in a loop and it's Farage's vision that's stuck on repeat | John Harris

Unlike Keir Starmer and his cabinet, Reform UK’s leader actually understands and exploits the rules of engagement in our digital ageAs so often happens, what Nigel Farage said on a recent visit to south Wales deserved endless pejoratives. It was ludicrous, condescending, half-baked, opportunistic and plain stupid. Even he didn’t seem to know exactly what he wanted. At a Reform UK press conference in Port Talbot, he seemed to make the case for reopening the town’s steel-making blast furnaces, before admitting that “it might be easier to build a new one”, though he also acknowledged that it would “cost in the low billions” to do so. But he had even more dizzying visions of reopened Welsh mines. “If you offer people well-paying jobs many will take them,” said Farage, “even though you have to accept that mining is dangerous.”The climate crisis, predictably enough, was not worth considering. He also did not offer any opinions about coal-related issues such as slag heaps, land slips, rive...

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5 d. ago Grooming gangs inquiry ‘must not delay action’ against child abuse, says NSPCC

Sir Keir Starmer said on Saturday he will launch a full inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after resisting pressure for months.

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5 d. ago Starmer focused on grooming victims not ‘grandstanding’, says Reeves

The Chancellor said that Sir Keir has been looking at ‘actually doing the practical things to ensure that something like this never happens again’.

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7 d. ago Jonathan Reynolds mocks Nigel Farage’s coal mines plan as an ‘absolute parody’

Nigel Farage fails to understand ‘the pride in where we’re from and what we represent’, the business secretary said

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8 d. ago Tories call for information watchdog to probe Reform UK’s data requests

Nigel Farage’s political party has requested a broad swathe of information from the councils it now controls across England.

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8 d. ago Kemi Badenoch blasts Nigel Farage's Reform over support for a burka ban saying enforcing it would be a waste of police time

She suggested that Reform's support for a ban on the Islamic outfit - which covers the whole body, apart from a gauze veil over the eyes - was 'a policy without a plan'.

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