Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe: not clear whether Nigel Farage can ‘deliver the goods’
A prominent Reform UK parliamentarian has appeared to question whether his party can succeed under Nigel Farage’s leadership. Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, has said it is “too early” to tell whether his party leader can “deliver the goods”. In an apparent warning to Farage, Lowe added that Reform will only thrive […]
Ukraine developments leave Nigel Farage and Reform exposed
If there was ever a story that stands taller than Westminster’s towering walls, this would be it: Donald Trump has ordered the US administration to suspend all military aid to Ukraine. In the most troubling development since Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House meeting on *checks notes* Friday, it was announced overnight that the US […]
‘Very unwise’: Nigel Farage suggests Zelenskyy was ‘rude’ in White House meeting
Nigel Farage has suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy was “rude” and “very unwise” in his approach to his now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. The meeting between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart was convened so the two leaders could discuss the raw materials deal and the US administration’s attempts to end the war in […]
Swinney argues Nigel Farage is an ‘accomplice to Russian agenda’ with ‘racist’ worldview
First minister of Scotland John Swinney has labelled Nigel Farage an “accomplice to the Russian agenda” and an “apologist” for the Kremlin. The comments, which the Reform UK leader would refute, came in Swinney’s first Bute House press conference as first minister on Wednesday morning. Less than 24 hours after Scottish government’s budget passed its […]
Donald Trump is the ‘bravest man that I know’, says Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage has hailed Donald Trump as the “bravest man that I know” hours after contradicting the US president’s claim that Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator”. Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC, the Reform UK leader claimed that Trump’s political comeback in the United States is driving a resurgence […]
From Starmer to Farage: what responses to Trump’s attack on Zelenskyy reveal
Donald Trump’s evisceration of diplomatic consensus and disdain for multilateral action is remaking the world order at a pace spectator governments, most of all those in Europe, are struggling to comprehend. Every social media tirade, standard diplomatic procedure dictates, should justify some new summit so agreed action can be considered and implemented. Earlier this week, […]
What Keir Starmer risks with his Reform blitz
Keir Starmer is starting the week with a full-frontal assault on the party he considers to be his gravest threat and on the issue that defines its menace: it’s Labour versus Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in a totemic tussle over immigration. The Home Office launched a publicity blitz this morning, as Labour seeks to persuade […]
Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ comes with traps for Badenoch and Farage
The constitution and EU relations minister delivered a major speech this morning setting out the framework for the government’s “Brexit reset”. Nick Thomas-Symonds, a longtime close ally of the prime minister who resides in the Cabinet Office, revealed that the government’s negotiating position will be moulded by the interlinked imperatives of “prosperity, safety and security”. […]
Farage pledges to ‘improve’ Brexit deal, but EU meeting shows PM is ‘rejoiner at heart’
Nigel Farage has said the prime minister’s meeting with European leaders on Monday night shows he is a “rejoiner at heart”. Speaking on Monday, Keir Starmer reiterated that the UK rejoining the EU is “not going to happen” but that a “better, closer relationship” on trade and security could be achieved as he arrived for […]
Nigel Farage is vulnerable
Faragism thrives, like its international counterparts, in a milieu of deepening disillusion.
