Ben Goldsborough: ‘Reform’s prison plan is a sick joke – and criminals are the ones laughing’
If you think Reform UK are the hard-men of law and order, think again. Behind the tough-guy act is a soft-touch scam that would be funny — if it weren’t so dangerous. They talk a big game. They shout about cracking down on crime. But their prison plan? It’s a disaster waiting to happen. It’s […]
Farage urged to rule out Liz Truss joining Reform UK after ally’s defection
Reform UK has been challenged to rule out recruiting Liz Truss to its ranks, after her one-time party chairman, Sir Jake Berry, became the latest former Conservative MP to defect from the Tories. The Liberal Democrats described Berry, who like Truss lost his seat at the 2024 general election, as an “architect of economic disaster” […]
Former Conservative cabinet minister David Jones joins Reform UK
A former Conservative cabinet minister has announced he has left the party to join Reform UK. Jones, who was the MP for Clwyd West from 2005 until standing down in 2024, said he had quit the Tories after “more than 50 years of continuous membership”. Jones served as secretary of state for Wales under David […]
Ex-Reform deputy launches new party to rival Nigel Farage
The new party will be known as Advance UK, Ben Habib said in a post to X (formerly Twitter).
Nigel Farage on track to become PM with ‘historic’ majority, new poll indicates
Nigel Farage’s party would win 377 seats, with the Labour and Conservative parties both experiencing a dramatic drop in support.
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 […]
Doge is absolutely the last thing local authorities need right now
Despite the fanfare of Reform UK’s Doge initiative, AI and tech experts alone will not solve the problems besetting local authority finances. If only it were that simple. As Reform sends its Doge team into Kent County Council for the first of its “local government efficiency audits”, I am sure they will learn this soon […]
Scottish Labour by-election win hailed as ‘message to Farage and his mob’
Scottish Labour’s victory in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election has been described as a “message to Farage and his mob” by the triumphant candidate. In a result that confounded predictions, Scottish Labour’s Davy Russell won the seat from the SNP, formally held by minister Christina McKelvie before she died in March, by a majority […]
