The UK government is preparing to make it harder for migrants to secure permanent residency as part of a wider plan to reduce immigration. Under current rules, migrants can apply for indefinite leave to remain after five years of living and working in the UK. The government now plans to increase that period to up…
Reform UK has been handed a record-breaking polling lead just days after taking hundreds of council seats across England in May 1’s local elections. Nigel Farage’s party now sits 12 points clear of the Conservatives and seven clear of Labour. Reform is now also the only one out of the top three parties to have…
As Reform UK celebrates its latest successes in the local elections, speculation is rife about what its growth in popularity could mean for the party and its political fortunes. Both the Labour and Conservative parties were left bruised by the 2 May elections, with Labour losing the previously safe Runcorn and Helsby constituency in a…
The chairman of Reform UK has vowed to “remoralise” young people and “end all this woke nonsense” following his party’s success in the local elections. As the right-wing party continues to rise, Reform’s chairman Zia Yusuf told Sky News’ Sunday with Trevor Phillips just how they want to change the country. He said: “What we…
Reform UK has emerged as an electoral force. Nigel Farage’s right-wing party won 10 councils, two mayoralties and a parliamentary by-election during Thursday’s polls. Wes Streeting, speaking for the government on Sunday, acknowledged Reform is “a real threat” to Labour and is being treated as a “serious opposition force”. “In that spirit,” Streeting added, “I…
Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, speaks at a party press conference. With a stunning sweep across local councils and a historic by-election victory, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has done what many thought impossible: cracked Britain’s long-standing two-party dominance, and now it’s coming for Downing Street.Formed from the ashes of the Brexit Party, Reform UK…
Published on May 03, 2025 09:23 AM IST Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party won a parliamentary seat in a by-election. The Reform UK party also won the mayoralty and several local council posts on Friday. Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage said it is a huge victory. Farage also declared that the party was now…
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is “in business” as an electoral force. That’s the view of polling guru Sir John Curtice after Farage’s party took control of councils from the Tories and Labour and gained an MP in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. The professor told the BBC that before the elections, it would have been…
A handful of Kneecap festival performances have been cancelled as counter-terrorism police investigate footage which allegedly shows the band calling for the deaths of MPs and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”. Politicians are pushing for the group to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up while artists including Pulp, Paul Weller, DJ Annie Mac, Massive…
LONDON (AP) — Voters in many areas of England go to the polls Thursday in local elections that provide a test of feeling about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour government, 10 months after it was elected in a landslide. Both Labour and the main opposition Conservative Party are bracing for losses in the midterm…