4 h. ago Nigel Farage's plot to win over the lefties: Reform leader to 'commit to restoring winter fuel payments and scrapping two

The Reform leader is expected to announce his new promises in a speech next week in a speech where he will also accuse the PM as 'one of the most unpatriotic prime ministers in our history.

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7 h. ago Farage ‘backs scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payments’

His Reform UK party is riding high in the opinion polls.

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8 h. ago Pulp Fiction's Tim Roth shares nickname for Reform's Nigel Farage as he digs out Tories

Pulp Fiction star and Hollywood Brit Tim Roth revealed he liked to rhyme the Reform leader's last name with the leafy crucifer, despite his concerns for the far-right party's growing popularity

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38 h. ago Reform UK's new mayors take centre stage: Nigel Farage's troops join other regional leaders for talks with Angela Rayner... as Deputy PM warns 'you have to deliver'

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Greater Lincolnshire mayor, and Luke Campbell, the Hull and East Yorkshire mayor, both attended the meeting alongside 12 other mayors.

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62 h. ago Reform advert targeting Anas Sarwar branded 'blatantly racist' by Scottish Labour

A social media advert by Reform UK has been branded “blatantly racist” by Scottish Labour.

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’ | Editorial

Three decades on from Robert Putnam’s account of fraying social ties in the US, new research in Britain identifies similar dangersThirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert Putnam has a right to feel vindicated. In a lecture this spring, Prof Putnam, now 84, warned his audience that, amid levels of polarisation and distrust higher than at any time since the civil war, the US was “in danger of going to hell in a handcart”.Britain is still, thankfully, a long way from the poisonous toxicity of Trump-era America, notwithstanding the ominous rise of Reform and Nigel Farage. But research published this week by the More in Common polling group paints a worrying portrait of communities in which there is a widespread sense of social disconnection, high levels of distrust among the young and a felt loss of shared spaces and rituals.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage mocked by Scots MP after Reform leader jets off on holiday and misses EU debate

Farage has made at least nine trips abroad since he was elected as MP for Clacton last year.

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage admits he's skipping the Commons this week as he's on HOLIDAY

The Reform UK leader - who is reported to be in France - was forced to admit he is away from Westminster after facing growing questions over his absence.

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer warns rebellious Labour MPs that Reform is now their 'main rival' and they have a 'moral duty' to stop Nigel Farage becoming PM

The Prime Minister lashed out at the Reform leader as 'a state-slashing, NHS-privatising Putin apologist' as faced the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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6 d. ago Leading Scottish think tank changes name to avoid clash with Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Reform Scotland has rebranded and will now be known as Enlighten.

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7 d. ago Reform UK launches war on LTNs: Nigel Farage's party will axe hated green roads schemes in all 10 of its newly

LTNs were introduced in 2020 and have been championed by politicians like London mayor Sadiq Khan as being positive for pedestrians and cyclists.

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7 d. ago Reform steps up call for rape gang inquiries after triumph in council polls

Nigel Farage plans to mobilise his new regional power base of Reform councillors to try to force the Government to act on the scandal of child sex grooming gangs .

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer 'says Tories are finished and Nigel Farage's Reform are real opposition'

A source with knowledge of Keir Starmer's thinking has said Nigel Farage's Reform are the 'real opposition' and the Tories are finished after brutal attacks on Kemi Badenoch

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage's Reform is more of a threat to Labour in Scotland, says Professor Sir John Curtice

In an exclusive interview with The Steamie podcast, we take a look at what to expect in the 2026 Holyrood election.

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1 week ago SNP accuses Keir Starmer of 'lying down' for Nigel Farage over immigration as Reform close in on Labour

The SNP government has hit out as Labour for pandering to Reform UK on immigration.

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1 week ago Lowe hits out at ‘coward and viper’ Farage after CPS say he will face no charges

Former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe will face no charges over claims he threatened the party chairman.

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1 week ago Rupert Lowe: Threats investigation against ex Reform MP dropped

Rupert Lowe insisted the accusations, and his suspension from Reform, were a politically motivated retaliation for his criticism of leader Nigel Farage

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1 week ago Peter Mandelson: 'I can't imagine Nigel Farage ever being PM'

Reform took control of seven local councils, winning hundreds of seats, in the parliamentary by-election earlier this month

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1 week ago Peter Mandelson plays down idea of Nigel Farage as PM after Reform local elections victory

Lord Mandelson said he takes Nigel Farage ‘seriously’, but dismissed the likelihood of the Reform leader becoming prime miniter

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1 week ago Shock London poll: Nigel Farage’s Reform overtakes Tories in London as Labour slumps

Shock London poll: Nigel Farage’s Reform overtakes Tories in London as Labour slumps  London Evening Standard

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