2 h. ago Welsh county's youngest ever councillor with a past that doesn't define him

The Reform UK member was voted in at a by-election earlier this year

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5 h. ago Lammy urges Reform’s newest MP to ‘get some help’ over ‘conspiracy theories’

During a statement on the Middle East, the Foreign Secretary said Sarah Pochin should ‘get off social media’.

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6 h. ago What is Reform UK's proposed Britannia Card? Nigel Farage's 'bonanza for billionaires' explained

The party said the policy would ‘encourage the return of wealth and talent to the United Kingdom’

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6 h. ago Labour MPs ready to rebel against welfare reforms despite deselection threat

MPs claim that they have been threatened with suspension from the party and even deselection ahead of crunch welfare vote next week

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11 h. ago Farage’s ‘bonanza for billionaires’ would cost UK £34bn a year, warns tax expert

Reform UK believes the plans for a Britannia card will make the UK ‘incredibly attractive’ to the wealthy, but tax expert Dan Neidle has warned it will leave a massive black hole

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11 h. ago ‘Billionaires’ bonanza’: Labour derides Reform plan to offer tax exemptions to wealthy

Nigel Farage defends policy to top up poorest workers from £250,000 ‘landing fee’ on rich UK newcomersUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesNigel Farage has defended his plans to attract wealthy individuals to the UK with a £250,000 fee for 10 years of residency and a special tax regime, as Labour called it a “billionaires’ bonanza”.In a press conference in London, the leader of Reform UK said he wanted to win back very wealthy people leaving the country, and encourage them to spend and create jobs in the UK. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Farage’s ‘Robin Hood tax’ would cost UK £34bn a year, warns tax expert

Reform UK believes the plans for a Britannia card will make the UK ‘incredibly attractive’ to the wealthy, but tax expert Dan Neidle has warned it will leave a massive black hole

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15 h. ago Nigel Farage's Britannia Card plot to help billionaires avoid taxes mocked

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is planning to let wealthy business tycoons pay £250,000 for a so-called Britannia Card, which would excuse them from taxes on overseas earnings and inheritance tax

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15 h. ago Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship council as Nigel Farage eyes gains in London

Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship council as Nigel Farage eyes gains in London  London Evening Standard

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16 h. ago Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship London council as Nigel Farage eyes political gains across the capital

EXCLUSIVE: Westminster councillor Laila Cunningham is quitting the Conservatives saying she can no longer ‘defend failure’

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26 h. ago Reform unveils plan to top up poorest workers from £250,000 fee on rich UK newcomers

Nigel Farage will outline Britannia Card policy that could give the low paid £600 to £1,000 extra a yearReform UK are to offer wealthy foreigners and returning British expats a bespoke tax regime in exchange for a one-off payment of £250,000 with all funds collected redistributed to Britain’s lowest-paid workers, the party claims,.The proposal, dubbed the Britannia Card, is due to be unveiled by party leader Nigel Farage later this week. It promises a 10-year residence permit and a return to the controversial “remittance basis” of taxation, allowing cardholders to shield overseas income from UK tax and avoid inheritance tax entirely. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago MPs' shock as former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe reveals he had pet labrador put down with a rifle

Colleagues were shocked after it emerged Mr Lowe - now sitting as an independent MP - asked his gamekeeper to shoot 17-year-old Cromwell in the back of the head at his Gloucestershire estate.

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47 h. ago Reform UK would win if general election held tomorrow, poll suggests

Ipsos survey finds Nigel Farage’s party has a nine-point lead over Labour

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47 h. ago Reform UK would general election tomorrow, new poll suggests

Ipsos survey finds Farage’s party has a nine-point lead over Labour

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47 h. ago MPs' shock as former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe reveals he had pet labrador put down with a shotgun

Colleagues were shocked after it emerged Mr Lowe - now sitting as an independent MP - asked his gamekeeper to shoot 17-year-old Cromwell in the back of the head at his Gloucestershire estate.

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48 h. ago Reform 'set to repeal assisted dying legislation in next general election' if it passes through Lords

Nigel Farage's party is expected to promise to reverse the law in its next manifesto, assuming the legislation passes in the Lords.

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48 h. ago Nigel Farage becomes latest MP to cast doubt over Lucy Letby murder conviction

The Reform UK leader was responding to a powerful article in the Daily Mail by Sir Jeremy Hunt, who was Health Secretary when the babies died at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

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55 h. ago Reform is on course to WIN next General Election, new poll shows

The voting intention for Nigel Farage 's party's was more than double that of the Tories , who languished in third with 15 per cent, compared to Labour's 25 per cent and Reform's 34 per cent.

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60 h. ago Voices: Could Angela Rayner’s squeeze on landlords hurt the very people it’s supposed to help?

The deputy prime minister’s plans to reform the rental housing market are well-intentioned – and built on ideas first mooted by Michael Gove – but, says James Moore, if they end up restricting supply, renters will suffer the consequences

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64 h. ago ‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands

In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areasWhen Nigel Farage called for the nationalisation of British Steel on a visit to the Scunthorpe steelworks this spring, it was a marked change in direction for a man who had spent almost all of his political career campaigning for a smaller, Thatcherite state.Two years earlier, he had questioned why British taxpayers’ money should be thrown into keeping the fires of the very same blast furnaces burning. Back in 2018 he told an interviewer: “I supported Margaret Thatcher’s modernisation and reforms of the economy. It was painful for some people, but it had to happen.” Continue reading...

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