Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains
Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch a...
Keir Starmer makes late pitch to voters turning to Greens and Reform
As Labour faces record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections, prime minister says rivals are unfit to leadLabour is braced for record-breaking...
Reform and Plaid likely to benefit from polarisation of Welsh politics
Polls suggest Reform could win most seats in Senedd election but party is unlikely to be able to form governmentUK politics live – latest updatesOn a ...
Apps, activists and an ‘air war’: Essex campaign is test of Reform UK’s professionalisation
Nigel Farage’s party sees local elections as showcase for a sleeker approach borrowing from an unlikely sourceNigel Farage was midway through his walk...
‘Grotesque’: parties criticise Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas
Pledge ahead of local elections dismissed as ‘not a serious policy’ and ‘profoundly un-British’Coming just days before millions go to the polls, Zia Y...
Vote Lib Dem or ‘regret it’ living under a Reform council, Davey tells voters
Party leader says vote for Labour or Greens in closely run seats will result in Reform victory at local electionsVoters in the home counties will “reg...
Reform government could cause Truss-style chaos, says renewables industry
Lobbyist Tara Singh says stripping projects of subsidy contracts would undermine investor confidence in UKBritain could be beset by levels of economic...
Reform UK council backs release of beavers amid party row over rewilding
Councillors in Leicestershire support move in efforts to reduce flooding as Reform faces divisions on nature policyA Reform UK council has backed the ...
Dig Deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly ...
Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road
Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legi...
Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life
Ellen Mulvey ran up huge betting losses online and wrote ‘addiction is the worst disease’ before she diedA family is calling for wholesale reform of t...
Royal Mail investigating claims that postal worker ‘binned Reform UK election leaflets’
Message on private Facebook group for staff said: ‘I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me!’Royal Mail is investigating allegations that a postal...
Reform UK asks steel bosses to draft ‘alternative strategy’ for industry
Rival to government plans would scrap net zero policies, as party aims to woo sector after decades of job lossesReform UK has asked steel bosses to dr...
‘Toxic’ views of Reform UK candidates raise questions about party’s vetting
Hope Not Hate campaign identifies election hopefuls calling for a ‘white Britain’ and complaining of ‘kowtowing to the black community’A Reform UK can...
Shabana Mahmood swears at hecklers over Reform UK comments
Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigrationShabana Mahmood has told “white liberal” hecklers t...
Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100,000 in corporation tax
Deputy leader ran shell companies that reportedly did not pay tax on profits from 2020 to 2022, during which time his firm donated £1.1m to partyRicha...
Two more Reform local election candidates accused of offensive posts
Labour calls on Nigel Farage to sack candidates and says his party’s checks ‘clearly not fit for purpose’Reform UK’s checks on candidates are “clearly...
