19 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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43 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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48 h. ago Voices: Everyone wants prison reformed – even Reform. Labour must be bold

There is widespread public support, even among Nigel Farage’s supporters, for increasing community sentences for non-violent crime, writes Andrea Coomber, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform

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64 h. 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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69 h. ago Missing Nigel Farage humiliated AGAIN by Keir Starmer's brutal e

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has savagely ridiculed Nigel Farage for being on holiday while Parliament is still sitting causing MPs from across the house to burst out laughing

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2 d. ago Did Nigel Farage just lose $100m? Elon Musk says he'll do a 'lot less' political spending despite previously hinting at mega

The world's richest man told a business event in Qatar he had 'done enough' after bankrolling Donald Trump's successful US presidential campaign last year.

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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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3 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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3 d. ago Nigel Farage skips crucial EU update to go on holiday in latest shameless move

Nigel Farage has whined about the Government's EU reset agreement, but it turned out he missed a key update to the Commons because he has gone on holiday

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3 d. ago 'Absurd' SNP accused of supporting Nigel Farage by opposing UK

The SNP Government has "tied themselves in knots to set themselves against this deal", according to the Scottish Secretary.

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage HUMILIATED by Keir Starmer leaving major question unanswered

Prime Minister Keir Starmer took aim at outspoken Nigel Farage after he savaged the new UK-EU deal yet was not present in the chamber during the PM's statement on the agreement

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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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5 d. ago Negotiations go ‘down to the wire’ as Keir Starmer seeks EU reset deal

Reports suggest disagreements over fishing rights and youth mobility have presented last-minute stumbling blocks to an agreement.

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5 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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5 d. ago EU talks going ‘to the wire’ as Starmer prepares to announce deal

The Prime Minister has said the agreement would be ‘another step forwards’ for the UK.

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6 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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6 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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6 d. ago Voices: The Tories ‘sliding into oblivion’? Keir Starmer should be careful what he wishes for

Mocking the Conservative Party may win applause, but it also helps Nigel Farage dominate the stage, writes John Rentoul. The prime minister should be trying to prop Kemi Badenoch up instead of boosting Reform

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage 'on side of bad bosses not workers' with pub banter comment

The Reform UK leader has lashed out at Labour's bill, moaning that protecting staff from harassment will stifle free speech in pub debates - but workers who have suffered from abuse have hit back

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6 d. ago Ed Miliband says 'I'm 100% up for a fight with Nigel Farage' over Net Zero

The Energy Secretary gave a cast-iron promise Net Zero targets won't slip - and told Reform UK's anti-Net Zero leader: "Bring it on. Theirs is the ideological, extreme position"

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