Senior Conservative says time has come for ‘charlatan’ Nigel Farage to ‘put up or shut up’

Sir Roger Gale said the time has come for Nigel Farage to “put up or shut up”, three months on from his election as the MP for Clacton.
Week-in-Review: Why Keir Starmer is refusing to take the Reform bait

This points potentially to a wider strategy, in the short term at least, as Labour attempts to contain the Faragist peril.
MPs could face crackdown on hosting TV shows under new commons rules

Channels including GB News and LBC have shows hosted by serving MPs.
Conservative leadership hopeful says Nigel Farage ‘irresponsible and wrong’ over riots response

A Conservative leadership contender has condemned Nigel Farage as “irresponsible and wrong” in his response to recent unrest. Mel Stride, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has ruled out doing a deal with Farage’s Reform UK, branding the former UKIP boss’ comments on the far-right riots “deeply unhelpful” amid a “highly volatile situation”. Farage has […]
Election results 2024: Nigel Farage says Reform will win ‘6 million votes plus’

Nigel Farage has celebrated the exit poll’s findings, declaring Reform UK will “win many, many seats”.
Why Reform and Nigel Farage’s electoral insurgency has stalled

The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, sign-up for free and never miss this essential election briefing. In the months leading up to this election campaign, now fast approaching its terminus, Reform UK remained shrouded in political mystery. That is despite the party polling consistently in the double-digits since the start of 2024. The […]
Reform takeover: how the Conservative Party could fall into the clutches of Nigel Farage

What’s the difference between a merger, a takeover and a “reverse takeover”? Each term has been employed to describe the audacious efforts to reconstitute the British right after the general election on the 4th of July — and understand possible liaisons between the besieging populists of Reform UK and the besieged, defeat-bound Conservative Party. A […]
Prime minister Nigel Farage? Reform UK leader reveals plan for power by 2029

Reform’s manifesto launch today is another opportunity for Nigel Farage to steal the media spotlight from the Conservatives.
Nigel Farage willing to lead ‘merged’ Reform-Conservative party after election

Nigel Farage has said he would be willing to lead a merged Reform-Conservative Party after the general election.
Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for coalition with Reform to reunite ‘Tory family’

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the Conservatives need to form a “coalition” with Reform UK to avoid splitting the right-wing vote. The comments came as a YouGov survey, published on Tuesday, placed the Conservative Party just one point ahead of Nigel Farage’s Reform. The poll put Labour on 38 per cent, the Conservatives on 18, Reform […]