13 h. ago Keir Starmer warns Wales that Nigel Farage will treat us like 'fools' in scathing attack

The Prime Minister said Nigel Farage 'takes people for fools'

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3 d. ago Morgan McSweeney: Labour’s election fixer draws fire as welfare rebellion looms

Chief of staff to UK prime minister argues government needs to head off Nigel Farage by leaning to the right

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3 d. ago Morgan McSweeney: Labour’s election fixer under fire as welfare rebellion looms

Chief of staff to UK prime minister argues government needs to head off Nigel Farage by leaning to the right

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8 d. ago Deputy FM accuses Leo Varadkar of reinventing himself after Irish unity comments

Emma Little-Pengelly took a swipe after he said that Irish unity would become ‘centre stage’ if Nigel Farage became UK prime minister.

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9 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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2 w. ago Former TV presenter David Bull named new chairman of Reform UK

His appointment comes after businessman Zia Yusuf resigned from the position last week.

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3 w. ago Zia Yusuf returns to Reform UK just 48 hours after quitting as chairman

The 38-year-old businessman said his decision to stand down had been the result of ‘exhaustion’ and working for 11 months ‘without a day off’.

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3 w. ago Farage as Prime Minister? 'Red flag' reason why voters aren't convinced

Could Nigel Farage really be headed for No.10? As Reform UK surges and many see the party as the main opposition over the Tories, we asked if you thought the right-winger could be our next Prime Minister

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3 w. ago Scots have every reason to fear Nigel Farage as Prime Minister

Record View says 'it’s little surprise some Scots would consider leaving the Union to escape a Farage-led UK.'

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3 w. ago Rise of Nigel Farage's Reform UK boosts support for Scottish independence

A new poll puts support for Yes at 54 per cent

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3 w. ago Scottish independence support surges over fears Nigel Farage could be next Prime Minister

The Reform UK leader is expected to campaign in Scotland for the first time since 2019 ahead of this week's Hamilton by-election.

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3 w. ago Is Starmer's failure putting the union at risk? Support for Scottish independence hits record 54% amid Reform surge

A Norstat poll found 54 per cent backed the separatist cause north of the border, the joint highest ever detected by the firm.

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4 w. ago Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too | Gaby Hinsliff

His tax-and-spending maths may be bonkers, but while Labour dithers, the Reform leader knows just what his voters wantIf Nigel Farage has a secret weapon, it is his seeming refusal to take things seriously.His habit of repairing to the pub at any opportunity – though in private, he’s said to barely drink now – and the cheerfully unabashed amateurishness of his operation have long made other politicians look stuffy by comparison. But the chaos is also, as it was for Boris Johnson, a means of defence.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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last month Do you think Nigel Farage could be Prime Minister? Take our poll and have your say

Keir Starmer has launched a ferocious attack on Nigel Farage shortly after a poll revealed the Reform UK leader is British voters' last choice to be Prime Minister

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last month Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans are ‘Liz Truss all over again’, prime minister tells workers in MerseysideThe Conservatives are “sliding into the abyss”, Keir Starmer has said, as he described Nigel Farage and Reform as the main challengers to his Labour government.During a hastily arranged visit to a glass factory in St Helens, the prime minister castigated Farage as a fake defender of working people and compared him to Liz Truss as someone whose fiscal plans would crash the economy. Continue reading...

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last month Farage ‘introducing poison into politics’, warns Starmer amid row over Reform ad

The Prime Minister suggested Reform UK is creating a ‘toxic divide’ with a campaign video it produced ahead of a Holyrood by-election.

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last month Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west EnglandStarmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause Truss-style meltdownWhen “something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true”, water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.Asked about the “threat” which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:I think it’s really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they’ve made and we know – gosh, don’t we just know – what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.When something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.Now, had I come on your programme and said, ...

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last month Where's the cash coming from, Nige? Keir Starmer challenges Farage over Reform's £85bn spending plans

The Prime Minister joined the Tories in taking aim at Mr Farage's economic literacy today after he unveiled plans for an £85billion spending splurge if Reform wins power.

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