3 h. ago Reform UK chairman vows to use 'every instrument of power available' to stop migrants being housed in council areas his party now controls

Reform, led by Nigel Farage, gained more than 600 council seats and took control of 10 local authorities in Thursday's local elections .

Society

3 h. ago Reform will use ‘every instrument’ to resist asylum hotels in areas it runs

Party chairman Zia Yusuf said he was ‘realistic’ about the fact the levers of change at a local level ‘pale in comparison’ to Westminster powers.

Events

4 h. ago Anas Sarwar admits Labour government must go 'further and faster' to counter surge of Nigel Farage's Reform

Anas Sarwar has warned his Labour colleagues at Westminster need to better deliver on election promises to counter the surge of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Politics

4 h. ago Downing Street fury at Farage plot to tie up Starmer government in legal challenges

Exclusive: Reform’s new Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns has revealed that Farage plans to use the party’s control of councils across England to launch a series of legal challenges to block Labour government policy on net zero and housing asylum seekers

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4 h. ago Labour minister Lucy Powell ‘mortified’ over grooming gangs remarks

The Leader of the Commons appeared to describe the grooming gangs issue as a ‘dog whistle’ during a Radio 4 debate.

Politics

4 h. ago Labour's Wes Streeting dismisses calls for fellow Cabinet minister Lucy Powell to resign after she claimed grooming gangs is a 'dog whistle' issue

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said Lucy Powell, the Leader of the House of Commons, was 'mortified' about her comments and was 'right' to apologise for them.

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4 h. ago Wes Streeting sends 'telly' message to voters and makes Nigel Farage 'airtime' comment

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he knows voters are 'shouting at the telly' to tell Labour they are not feeling the change that was promised at the election

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5 h. ago Kemi Badenoch admits Nigel Farage could become prime minister after Tories’ local elections ‘bloodbath’

The Tory leader was speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg after devastating local elections results, which left one pollster warning she only has 12 months to save her party

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5 h. ago Streeting: Reform UK a ‘real threat’ to Labour and ‘serious opposition force’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Nigel Farage’s party has tapped into the frustration of voters.

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5 h. ago Streeting says Reform are real threat and may become Labour’s main rivals

Health secretary asks public to give government time as he calls Farage’s party a ‘serious opposition force’Politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has said Reform is a real threat and could replace the Conservatives as the main opposition party by the next election, as he urged the public to give Labour the “benefit of the doubt”.The health secretary said Nigel Farage’s party was being treated as a “serious opposition force” after Reform’s success in the local elections, where it narrowly won a byelection from Labour and took 677 council seats, gaining control of 10 councils. Reform took most seats from the Conservatives, who lost 674, while Labour lost 187. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Kemi Badenoch warns Tory critics that replacing her as leader won't work as she defends her 'slow and steady' plan

The Tories lost more than 600 councillors and all 15 of the councils they controlled going into Thursday's contest - among the worst results in the party's history.

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6 h. ago Streeting admits Reform could be main opposition by next election – UK politics live

Health secretary tells Sky News that the party are ‘definitely a threat’ following byelection and council resultsLabour targets international students claiming asylumThe Conservatives will come back from their poor results in the local elections but it will have to be a “slow and steady” effort, party leader Kemi Badenoch has said, PA reports.She told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme: “I am sorry to all of those councillors who’ve lost their seat”. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Nigel Farage swipes the Tories 'will never recover' following their local elections wipeout

The Tories lost more than 600 councillors and all 15 of the councils they controlled going into Thursday's contest - among the worst results in the party's history.

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12 h. ago Nigel Farage 'targeting Scotland next' after election victory

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The Reform leader said Scotland will be seeing 'a lot more' of him soon.

Politics

16 h. ago Farage: Reform UK has ‘supplanted’ Tories after local elections sweep

The Reform leader said the Conservatives will ‘never recover’.

Politics

16 h. ago WES STREETING: 'NHS tech upgrade will be a revolution for cancer care'

WES Streeting says plans to upgrade NHS cancer care from a service “fax machines” to ground breaking new technology will be a “revolution” for millions of patients.

Science

16 h. ago Millions of cancer patients promised faster diagnosis with help of new tech tool

The tool, called Cancer 360, brings cancer patients’ data into one central system and is to be rolled out soon, the DHSC said.

Science

17 h. ago Trade union advises staff at newly christened Reform UK councils to sign up after jubilant Nigel Farage promised Trump

Mr Farage warned council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to seek 'alternative careers' after his party took control of Durham council.

Politics

20 h. ago Starmer urged to change course, not go ‘further and faster’ after Reform gains

One Labour MP said the response from Downing Street was ‘nonsense’ while another said the party needs a ‘change of plan’.

Politics

24 h. ago 'Britain wants Reform!': Nigel Farage hails 'unprecedented' local election results and says his councils will resist taking asylum seekers

Nigel Farage has declared 'Britain wants Reform' as he boasts of the party's 'unprecedented' results in yesterday's local elections, sparking a political earthquake for Labour and the Conservatives. 

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