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Most Reform UK voters would back wealth tax on very rich, poll suggests

Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025

Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’

Party claims its policies would eliminate ‘black hole’ Rachel Reeves faces in the budget – but Labour says the ‘fantasy numbers don’t add up’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2025

Farage and Badenoch step up Budget pressure on Reeves

Both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch will set out alternatives to the tax rises Rachel Reeves is set to unveil.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2025

Starmer ‘not available for Budget meeting’, says Swinney

The First Minister claimed it was easier for him to meet Donald Trump than the Prime Minister.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2025

Minister urges Labour MPs to ‘look closely’ at asylum plan amid backbench outcry

Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce sweeping changes in the Commons on Monday, including an overhaul of human rights laws.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2025

Reform MP invites Mahmood to join his party, saying he ‘welcomes’ and ‘recognises’ her rhetoric – as it happened

Shabana Mahmood tells MPs asylum system is ‘out of control and unfair’ amid Labour backlash over proposals

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2025

Chancellor's Budget raid will make 500,000 more people in London and South East pay 40% income tax rate

Rachel Reeves is set to impose a ‘stealth tax’ in her Budget on November 26 with a further two-year freeze on income tax thresholds

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2025

Angela Rayner’s reappearance is a further damning of Starmer’s leadership

COMMENT: Editorial: With Labour in turmoil and the Budget still more than a week away, the resurgence of the prime minister’s former deputy adds further complication that Keir Starmer could do without

The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2025

How to stop the rise of Reform UK? Expose its contradictions

Letters: The victory of Nigel Farage’s party at the next election need not be inevitable, writes Les Bright. Plus letters from Nick Moss, and Dr Margherita de Candia and Dr Marianna Griffini

The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2025

Irish Labour leader Ivana Bacik says Irish unity stance is not about Sinn Fein

‘It’s something I believe fundamentally in,’ the leader of the Irish Labour party said.

Evening Standard · Nov 16, 2025