Reform UK has surged in the UK local elections after taking council seats from the Labour Party, with Keir Starmer’s party haemorrhaging seats as local authorities began declaring overnight. Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK gains exceeded 210 seats when results were in from 37 of the 136 councils in the early hours of Friday, while Labour…
Polling has opened across England, Scotland and Wales in a series of local, mayoral and parliamentary contests – the biggest electoral test Keir Starmer and the Labour government have faced since the 2024 general election. As millions of people across Britain go to the polls on Thursday, party leaders are poised for a set of…
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner resigned from the UK government on Friday after she admitted underpaying property tax on a new home. Her resignation is a new blow for prime minister Keir Starmer. Ms Rayner is the eighth, and the most senior, ministerial departure from Mr Starmer’s team, and the most damaging yet after the…
British deputy prime minister Angela Rayner was fighting for her political future on Wednesday after acknowledging she had underpaid property tax owed when she bought an apartment in a southern English seaside resort. Ms Rayner, who is also Britain’s housing minister, has been under scrutiny for days over her purchase of a flat in Hove,…
Nigel Farage has promised the mass deportation of irregular migrants in Britain, as he vowed to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Reform UK leader said his party would also disapply the 1951 UN Refugee Convention for a five-year period, along with “any other barriers” that would prevent…
UK homelessness minister Rushanara Ali has resigned after reports emerged that she evicted tenants from her East London property before increasing the rent by almost £700 a month. In a letter to British prime minister Keir Starmer, she said that remaining in the role would be “a distraction from the ambitious work” of the government….