Labour rejects Nigel Farage’s non-dom plan as ‘bonanza for billionaires’
Nigel Farage’s new proposal for wealthy foreign residents is a “bonanza for billionaires” that would create a “massive black hole in the country’s finances”, Labour has said. Ellie Reeves, the chair of the Labour Party, insisted that working people would be left to foot the bill for what she termed “dangerous and unfunded Liz Truss […]
Rachel Reeves: Reform UK ‘tough on workers, tough on patients but soft on Putin’
The chancellor has claimed Reform UK is “tough on workers, tough on patients but soft on Putin”. Delivering a speech to the GMB union conference in Brighton on Tuesday, Rachel Reeves said that Nigel Farage is “not on the side of the heroic people of Ukraine”. The attack came as the chancellor unveiled a £14.2 […]
Week-in-Review: Reform UK’s incompetent insurgency
All of a sudden, a transatlantic trend: populist leaders who promised to slash bloated budgets are instead cutting ties with their efficiency tsars. Elon Musk, ex-presidential adviser, and Zia Yusuf, former Reform UK chairman, have succumbed to the same fate. The manner in which their shared destiny was realised — and the synchronicity of the […]
Reform UK split over burqa ban as chairman labels stance ‘dumb’
An apparent split has emerged within Reform UK after the party’s newest MP, Sarah Pochin, called for a ban on burqas in Britain “in the interests of public safety”. The MP, who won the recent Runcorn and Helsby by-election with a margin of just six votes over Labour, asked her first question at PMQs on […]
Nigel Farage’s policies labelled ‘Trussonomics on steroids’ after major speech
Nigel Farage vowed to introduce tax breaks for married couples and abolish the two-child benefit cap in a major speech seeking to position Reform UK as the true opposition to Labour. Delivering a pro-family pitch, Farage said lifting the two-child limit is the “right thing to do” as it would make having children “a bit […]
Farage only cares about his ‘own self-interest and personal ambition’, says Labour
The Labour Party has launched a pre-emptive attack on Nigel Farage, branding him a “private-educated stockbroker and career politician” whose policies would harm working families, hours before the Reform UK leader is due to deliver a major speech. In a statement, Labour chair Ellie Reeves accused Farage of having “only ever cared about his own […]
UK-EU summit: Lib Dems urge PM to ignore Brexit ‘dinosaurs’ Farage and Badenoch
Ed Davey has called on the prime minister to be “bold and ambitious for our country” and disregard “dinosaurs fighting old battles”.
Rupert Lowe hits out at ‘viper’ Farage and promises ‘alternative’ to Reform UK
The comments came as it was announced that the former Reform MP will not be charged after facing allegations of making threats.
Reform UK ‘flag ban’ presents target for Labour
Reform UK’s fresh batch of local representatives are busily bedding into their new offices across the country. And as Nigel Farage’s teal troops descend on England’s town halls, Westminster is steadily adjusting to the new political reality precipitated by the local elections. The Labour and Conservative parties are still reeling — reckoning with respective backlashes […]
Week-in-Review: Reform plots reckoning for Keir Starmer — and irrelevance for Badenoch
The Runcorn and Helsby by-election will be seen as the moment Nigel Farage first made good on his totemic warning, issued at the commencement of his parliamentary career: “We’re coming for Labour”, the Reform leader declared at his Clacton count last July, “be in no doubt about that.” Who would doubt it now? Insurgent political […]
