Lord Frost floats Tory pact with Reform by 2028: ‘We can’t go into an election divided’
Lord Frost has reflected on the prospect of a Conservative pact with Reform UK as the two right-wing parties continue to fight it out in the polls. The former cabinet minister told attendees of the annual Margaret Thatcher conference over the weekend that “pacts or arrangements will have to be on the agenda” if the […]
A new Lowe? Reform UK’s civil war will be a protracted farce
Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe have been at loggerheads over political strategy for months. But the Reform row burst definitely into the public domain last week after Lowe voiced his grievances in an interview with the Daily Mail. Reform will fail if Farage maintains his “messiah” complex, Lowe suggested. He cast acid aspersions on the […]
Ben Goldsborough: ‘Reform claim to put Britain first, but their words betray them’
Reform UK like to wrap themselves in the Union Jack, but at the slightest breeze it is pulled back to reveal they’re clad head to toe in the Kremlin’s colours. This isn’t hyperbole. From every word uttered to every act they undertake we can see they don’t stand up for forgotten communities. No. Instead, they […]
How Reform’s own Rupert Lowe became a threat to Nigel Farage
Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe is, on paper, everything party leader Nigel Farage could hope for in a Reform parliamentarian.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reform UK chair calls Boris Johnson ‘one of most damaging PMs in history’
Boris Johnson will go down as “one of the most damaging prime ministers in this country’s history”, the Reform UK chair has insisted. Zia Yusuf said the increase in net migration during Johnson’s tenure in 10 Downing Street was “a total betrayal of everybody who voted for Brexit”, as he ruled out the prospect of […]
Nigel Farage is vulnerable
Faragism thrives, like its international counterparts, in a milieu of deepening disillusion.
