Nigel Farage made a dramatic entrance on a JCB as he launched Reform UK’s local election campaign at what the party claims is their “biggest-ever” rally in Birmingham on Friday. The event, held on 28 March, has been billed by the party as “the biggest ever launch rally in modern British political history”. Reform UK…
Nigel Farage has attacked both Labour and the Tories as he launched Reform UK’s Local Election campaign in Birmingham. The Clacton MP, who was joined by around 10,000 Reform UK members at the Utilita Arena, set out his stall ahead of a major test for the populist party on May 1. Farage entered the stage…
Nigel Farage has urged Tory peers to condemn Angela Rayner’s local election cancellations in the House of Lords today in a bid to hand 5.5 million Britons the chance to vote. This morning, the Reform UK leader unusually put his weight behind Green and Liberal Democrat peers who have tabled “fatal motions” to avert Rayner’s…
Reform is set to take control of Doncaster, where Energy Security Ed Miliband is an MP, from Labour at the local elections in May, according to a recent poll. The poll, conducted by Electoral Calculus for The Telegraph, predicts that Reform will take control of eight councils in less than seven weeks’ time, with the Conservatives…
The UK economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.1 per cent in January, delivering a blow to chancellor Rachel Reeves in advance of her high-stakes Spring Statement this month. Friday’s monthly GDP figure from the UK’s Office for National Statistics was below both the 0.1 per cent growth predicted by economists polled by Reuters and December’s 0.4…
Foreign Secretary David Lammy ripped into Russia at the UN today in an extraordinary tirade referencing slavery, “Putin’s imperialism” and his African heritage. Addressing delegates at the United Nations’ HQ in New York City, Lammy directly took aim at Russia’s envoy to the organisation, Vasily Nebenzya, as he “called out” imperialism. Lammy said: “I say…