12 h. ago Nigel Farage’s ‘racism’ at odds with school values, says Dulwich official

The Reform UK leader said he was surprised by the master’s ‘uninformed comments’.

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13 h. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s new peerages: another boost for the ermine arms race | Editorial

Sir Keir Starmer promised to bring meaningful reform to the House of Lords. He is failing to introduce itIn opposition, Sir Keir Starmer called the unelected House of Lords “indefensible”. This week, barely 18 months into his prime ministership, Sir Keir took the total of unelected peers he has appointed since July 2024 to 96. Remarkably, Wednesday’s 34 new life peerages, mainly Labour supporters, take his appointment total above those of each of his four most recent Conservative predecessors. You must go back to David Cameron to find a prime minister who did more to stuff the Lords than Sir Keir.At the last election, Labour presented itself to the voters as a party of Lords reform. The party manifesto promised to remove the remaining hereditary peers, to reform the appointments process, to impose a peers’ retirement age, and to consult on proposals for replacing the Lords with an alternative second chamber. The House of Lords, the manifesto flatly declared, was “too big”....

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20 h. ago Tories hit with another defection as former 'Red Wall' MP Ben Bradley joins Reform UK to help with DOGE drive on local councils

Ben Bradley, who was Tory MP for Mansfield until last year's general election , said Reform 'is the only party that is prepared to be different' as he announced his switch.

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43 h. ago Bolton gets first Reform councillor as former Labour member joins party

Sue Haworth, who quit Labour in August this year, has a new party allegiance

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5 d. ago Reform UK gets first House of Lords member as Tory donor jumps ship

Mr Farage announced that Baron Offord of Garvel had now joined his party - giving Reform its first member of the House of Lords.

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5 d. ago Reform UK to make its own tartan in bid to woo Scottish voters

Dr David Bull, the Reform chairman, promised the party would produce ‘scarves, hats and kilts’ for members north of the border

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5 d. ago Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online

Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillorNigel Farage is emboldening attacks on people of colour, according to a journalist allegedly subjected to racial slurs by a Reform UK council leader who the party has been forced to expel.The broadcaster Sangita Myska, whose long career in British journalism has included presenting shows for the BBC and LBC Radio, said she was told by the former Staffordshire council leader Ian Cooper that she was English “only in your dreams”, because of her south Asian heritage. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Reform deputy leader dismisses claims of Farage’s past racism as new witnesses come forward

Richard Tice says testimony by about two dozen people about party leader’s school days is ‘made-up twaddle’Reform UK’s deputy leader has described a celebrated film director and a large and growing group of corroborating witnesses as liars over their allegations of Nigel Farage’s teenage antisemitism and racism.With the bigotry row continuing to dog Reform, whose lead in the national polls has slipped in recent weeks, Richard Tice turned on those who claimed to have been abused and those who say they saw it. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Three former Tory MPs defect to Nigel Farage's Reform accusing Kemi Badenoch's party of 'losing trust' of voters

Jonathan Gullis - the ex-MP for Stoke-on-Trent North - said he was abandoning the Conservatives after 18 years to join Nigel Farage's insurgents.

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1 week ago Setback for Jeremy Corbyn as Your Party opts for collective leadership

A collective model which puts a committee of members in charge was backed at the conference.

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1 week ago Budget has preserved Starmer’s job until at least May elections, say Labour MPs

While some call budget ‘tactical victory’, few MPs believe it is enough for Labour to beat ReformUK politics live – latest updatesLabour MPs have said they believe Keir Starmer’s leadership is safe until at least the May elections, after a budget that avoided any major damaging measures but which few MPs believe will revive the party’s fortunes.More than a dozen previously loyal MPs told the Guardian they did not believe the budget would shift the fundamentals required for the party to beat Reform. “It only delays what is inevitable,” one minister said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reform Party chair banned from the road following drink driving conviction

The politician was driving over the legal alcohol limit

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage jokes late Queen could have been 'Putin sympathiser'

Keir Starmer had demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the party’s former leader in Wales being sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for

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2 w. ago Starmer calls on Farage to apologise to his alleged victims of racial abuse at school

Prime minister says Reform leader’s explanations about alleged comments are ‘unconvincing to say the least’Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.The Guardian reported last week the testimony of Peter Ettedgui, who said a 13-year-old Farage “would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls“It was Trumpian,” said Mark Mansfield, editor and CEO of Nation.Cymru, a small English-language Welsh news service. “It has perhaps given us a flavour of how a Reform UK government would behave towards the media.”Mansfield is referring to what he described as an attempt by a figure at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party to “bully” his publication, but he believes a wider lesson might be learned. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reform breaks silence on ‘treacherous’ Nathan Gill over taking Russia bribes

Zia Yusuf has become the first senior figure in Reform to comment on the party’s former leader in Wales after he was jailed for taking money from the Kremlin

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage urged to root out Reform links to Russia after jailing of Nathan Gill

Party’s former leader in Wales admitted taking payments to make statements in favour of RussiaNigel Farage is facing calls to investigate and root out links between Reform UK and Russia after one of its former senior politicians was jailed for 10 years for accepting bribes from a pro-Kremlin agent.Keir Starmer said Farage had questions to answer about how this happened in his party. Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform UK in Wales, admitted taking payments to make statements in favour of Russia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Former Reform leader in Wales is jailed for 10 years for accepting pro

Russia is seeking to bribe Britain's MPs to undermine our democracy, police warned today as the former head of the Reform UK party in Wales was jailed for taking cash to back Putin's allies.

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2 w. ago Starmer calls Farage ‘spineless’ over tackling racism in Reform party

Prime minister says Reform UK leader has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged comments at school which included songs about HolocaustKeir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of being “spineless” when it comes to tackling racism in his party after the Guardian revealed allegations he made xenophobic and antisemitic comments while he was at school.The prime minister said the Reform UK leader had “questions to answer” about the comments and chants alleged, which included songs about the Holocaust and accusations of bullying towards ethnic minority schoolboys. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Starmer calls Farage ‘spineless’ over failure to tackle racism in Reform party

PM says Reform UK leader also has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged racist comments and chants when at school UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of being “spineless” when it comes to tackling racism in his party after the Guardian revealed allegations he made xenophobic and antisemitic comments while he was at school.The prime minister said the Reform UK leader had “questions to answer” about the alleged comments and chants, which include songs about the Holocaust and accusations of bullying towards minority ethnic schoolboys. Continue reading...

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