7 h. ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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10 h. ago Ronan Keating publicly defends Rylan Clark by dedicating song to him live onstage after backlash to TV star's controversial immigration comments

Rylan, 36, was embroiled in controversy last week, after his comments about migrants on This Morning, during a discussion about Reform leader Nigel Farage 's plans for mass deportations.

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10 h. ago Nigel Farage says MORE former Tory ministers will join Reform UK following Nadine Dorries' defection

The Reform leader admitted his party's 'biggest weakness' is that it lacks 'experience at government level'.

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11 h. ago Brian Cox slams ‘bully’ Nigel Farage in scathing rant on ‘misinformed’ Reform UK leader

Brian Cox has slammed Nigel Farage as a “bully” who is "misinformed” in a scathing assessment of the Reform UK leader.

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11 h. ago Boris Johnson would never be welcome in party, Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf says

Zia Yusuf branded the former Conservative leader ‘one of the worst prime ministers in British history’.

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24 h. ago KEMI BADENOCH: Rayner tried to dodge £40,000 in stamp duty as she plotted to hammer you and your home with more tax. The hypocrisy of it...

For weeks Labour ministers claimed that Angela Rayner had done nothing wrong. The Prime Minister defended her and refused to sack her.

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26 h. ago Green Party leader says he feels 'compassion' for Angela Rayner but calls on Farage to quit over tax affairs

The newly elected leader said he sympathises with the former Deputy PM and asks whether Reform UK’s Nigel Farage should also quit

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28 h. ago Jailed tweeter Lucy Connolly gets hug from Nigel Farage as she tells Reform party conference: 'Unchecked immigration is a danger to my child and everyone else's child'

Lucy Connolly was released from prison last month after being jailed for stirring up racial hatred in a tweet where she called for 'mass deportation now' and told people to 'set fire' to migrant hotels.

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29 h. ago Nigel Farage told to 'sever all ties' with Reform UK conference speaker who says 'Covid vaccines may have caused the King and Princess of Wales's cancer'

Dr Aseem Malhotra made claims about the pharmaceutical industry, politicians and the World Health Organisation during a speech at the Birmingham event on Saturday.

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29 h. ago Keir Starmer's reshuffle leaves Labour with 'strongest team'

As the PM completed a shake-up of his top team following the resignation of Angela Rayner, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Darren Jones claimed it was better than ever

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30 h. ago Lucy Connolly tells Reform UK conference she would ‘love’ to work with party

The party’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, welcomed her comments in his speech immediately after her live interview for a podcast.

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31 h. ago Morrissey 'politely' turns down invite from Nigel Farage's Reform party

'Morrissey is apolitical and has not ever joined a political party - or voted - in his entire life'

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33 h. ago Nigel Farage says Reform WILL deport Afghan women back to the Taliban if they arrive in Britain via small boats

The Reform UK leader has promised to deport 600,000 migrants over five years if his party wins power at the next general election.

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33 h. ago Nigel Farage confirms he would send women asylum seekers back to Taliban in Afghanistan

It comes after confusion over the Reform UK leader’s position on the issue

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35 h. ago Reform MP claims Nigel Farage’s tax affairs ‘irrelevant’ to the public

Reform deputy leader Richard Tice wanted to take the spotlight away from Nigel Farage’s tax affairs amid concerns over whether he used a legal loophole to not pay the full stamp duty on his constituency home in Clacton

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37 h. ago Reform’s conference has the energy of a MAGA tribute act – but write off Farage at your peril

There was a palpable sense that Nigel Farage really could be Britain’s next prime minister at this year’s Reform conference - but is the party is ready? Not everyone was convinced, writes Millie Cooke from the NEC in Birmingham

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37 h. ago ‘Farage No. 10’: All the merch being sold at the Reform party conference in Birmingham

‘Football-style’ merch has taken the lead at this year’s party conference

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38 h. ago Nigel Farage says claim he didn't pay £44k stamp duty like Angela Rayner is 'disgusting'

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he had bought a house in his constituency of Clacton, Essex but it was reportedly his partner Laure Ferrari who paid £900,000 for the property

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47 h. ago Farage to close Reform conference after telling activists to be ready for an election

Reform UK leader to close event having said party’s successes are ‘only the beginning’.

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48 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Harman claims ‘there is a way back’ for Rayner after resignation in tax scandal

Keir Starmer’s major cabinet reshuffle saw a dozen cabinet positions change, including the foreign minister and home secretary

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