3 h. ago Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like

Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reality22 May 2025: a new dawn for Lancashire. Outside Preston’s grand old county hall, 53 brand new Reform UK councillors in turquoise ties – and one petite woman with an enormous turquoise hair bow – are hot-footing it past a gaggle of protesters for their first full council meeting. Most keep their heads down and get into the building as quickly as possible. But Joel Tetlow, a first-time politician who has made a few unfortunate headlines before even taking his seat, is intrigued. He stands in the doorway, vaping, as a demonstrator bellows: “Reform is a far right party and Nigel Farage is a racist and a fascist!”Tetlow – late 40s with a full head of vertiginous hair, wearing a powder-blue three-piece suit – insists he isn’t bothered. “They don’t know us as people,” he shrugs. “It’s a word...

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3 h. ago Why Reform UK’s new champion means Scottish Tories can’t rely on their usual strategy to win votes

Scottish Conservative hopes that Reform’s bunch of misfits would struggle in the heat of the election campaign have evaporated with the defection of political heavyweight Malcolm Offord

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7 h. ago Reform UK councillors 'could be killed without safety measures': Warning after protestors storm meeting

Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, claimed councillors were left petrified after demonstrators interrupted a Staffordshire council meeting on Thursday.

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9 h. ago Reform is now the UK's biggest party as it overtakes Labour and hails 'huge milestone'

Nigel Farage's party boasts 263,631 paid-up members, according to its own 'live counter' on its official website.

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14 h. ago Farage claims Reform is now UK’s biggest party as Labour membership plummets

According to an internal leak Labour has lost 100,000 paid up members since the election leaving Reform UK as the UK’s biggest party

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18 h. ago Reform membership overtakes Labour for first time after Keir Starmer's party suffers 100,000 plunge in numbers since election

Leaked figures suggest Keir Starmer's party has lost around 100,000 activists in the wake of his historic win.

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18 h. ago Reform UK: All the politicians who have defected as more Tories announce move

Here is a list of politicians who have recently defected to Reform UK

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21 h. ago Reform UK hails first election in Scotland as 'dam breaking' moment

Nigel Farage said his party's success in the Whitburn and Blackburn by-election had "sent a huge message to the Scottish political establishment”.

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25 h. ago Nigel Farage's former school responds to 'profoundly distressing' racism claims

Reform UK leader says he was surprised by master at Dulwich College master’s ‘uninformed comments’

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37 h. ago Headmaster of Nigel Farage's school issues statement over racism allegations

A Dulwich College master has said allegations of racist behaviour by the Reform UK leader when he was a pupil are 'profoundly distressing'

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37 h. ago Lammy demands Farage cleans racists out of Reform after vile attacks

The deputy prime minister intervened after being subject to racist abuse from Reform UK politicians

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38 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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41 h. ago Bonnie Blue backs Reform UK as she faces deportation over 'barely legal' stunt

Controversial content creator Bonnie had been getting up to no good on her infamous Bang Bus tour down under, but now she has made another bizarre dip into politics praising Farage

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42 h. ago Reform councillor sends two emails in first six months of job

Northumberland County Councillor Shaun Knowles has been accused of ‘wasting taxpayer money’

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42 h. ago Staffordshire council thrown into chaos over Reform UK racism row as cops swarm

Staffordshire County Council's first meeting since leader Ian Cooper's resignation over racist social media remarks was suspended as protesters chanted in the chamber targeting two other councillors

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45 h. ago Police called as council meeting descends into chaos after Reform UK race row

The first full Staffordshire County Council meeting since the resignation of leader Ian Cooper, following a racism row and his expulsion from Reform UK, was suspended as police were called

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46 h. ago Bonnie Blue endorses Nigel Farage as she claims there are ‘too many people in the UK’

The adult content creator, real name Tia Billinger, said she is ‘not knowledgeable about politics’, but backed Reform UK’s policies on tax and immigration

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46 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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46 h. ago Adult star Bonnie Blue throws her weight behind Reform UK in surprise political endorsement

Controversial online star Bonnie Blue wades into politics with a nod to Reform UK’s immigration and inheritance tax plans

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54 h. ago Angry Ginge's former teacher breaks silence after I'm A Celebrity win

Morgan Burtwistle, known as Angry Ginge, has become the first social media star to win I'm a Celebrity, taking over half the votes as his former teachers at Salford City Academy speak out

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