Monty Python’s Eric Idle says Nigel Farage being ‘taken seriously is appalling’ The comedian will return to the UK in September for a solo tour. Evening Standard · Jul 17, 2025
MPs to tighten laws allowing foreign donations to influence UK elections Exclusive: changes will end illegitimate funding via shell firms and subject donors to enhanced tests, backed by stronger fines The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2025
Davey vows to challenge Farage and calls for ‘Swedish-style’ budget changes In a wide-ranging speech, the Liberal Democrat leader also set out calls for a major shake-up of economic and net-zero policy. Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025
Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voter, says author Samuel Earle The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2025
Keir Starmer says Tory ministers have 'questions' to answer on data leak and secret route to UK for Afghans At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025
UK politics live: Suella Braverman apologises for Tory government ‘failures’ over Afghan data breach Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2025
Davey proposes major shake-up of green energy contracts to ‘slash bills’ The Liberal Democrat leader will call for all green energy contracts to be moved to a scheme which guarantees generators a fixed price. Evening Standard · Jul 15, 2025
UK should consider banning cryptocurrency political donations, minister says Pat McFadden reacts over concerns foreign powers could use untraceable money to affect British democracy The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025
Voices: Is it time to give up on the NHS, our national religion? COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025
Corbyn, Sultana to form UK party: Flash in the pan or a ‘real alternative’? Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana plan to launch a new political party, hoping to unite Britain’s fractured left. Al Jazeera · Jul 15, 2025
Thousands offered UK asylum in secret scheme after personal data of Afghans who helped British forces leaked by mistake – as it happened Dataset containing details of thousands of Afghans who applied for relocation to UK released ‘in error’ in 2022 The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025
Miliband must match climate rhetoric with action amid broken cross-party consensus Energy and net zero secretary fought back against climate deniers on the right but key tests lie ahead The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2025
Reform council leader urges Labour to reconsider curbs on care worker visas Kent’s Linden Kemkaran writes to government to express ‘grave concern’ about possible exodus of overseas care staff The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2025
Voices: Of course poets deserve a place on Britain’s list of ‘skilled workers’ for visa applications COMMENT: Reform's Lee Anderson wants to close the book on ‘imported poets’ – but what does he think is happening, asks poet Luke Wright. Foreign poets, coming over here, taking all our line breaks? The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025
The National (Scotland) · Jul 13, 2025 Former Reform MP worked for bank while 'claiming Covid loans', reports say A FORMER Reform UK MP received a salary from an international bank during the pandemic while allegedly receiving thousands of pounds in Covid loans.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2025 At Glastonbury, I saw what England’s silent majority really looks like. Why aren’t politicians listening? Orthodox politics no longer represents how people feel about the world. Sooner or later, something will have to give, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2025 ‘An enormous scar’: the battle over solar farms and pylons as Reform UK takes aim at net zero In the fourth part of a series, we look at how climate orthodoxy is coming under fire in Lincolnshire
The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2025 Reform wants to cut council diversity roles. The problem is there are already barely any Exclusive: Party talks up sums that can be saved by cutting DEI jobs, but there are only a handful of such roles across the 10 councils it runs
The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2025 Starmer’s migrants return deal a ‘publicity stunt’ that won’t win back voters, top pollsters warn Exclusive: The warning comes as new survey of Labour members seen by The Independent reveals concerns about Keir Starmer’s wider migration policy
The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2025 Reform UK selects 18-year-old to run county council with multimillion pound budget Labour MP says taxpayers ‘deserve better’ as Nigel Farage’s party chooses teenager to be in charge of Warwickshire county council
The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2025 Voices: Keir Starmer has achieved the first half of his impossible mission COMMENT: The small boats deal with France was a negotiating triumph – but if it doesn’t work, the prime minister is doomed, says John Rentoul
The National (Scotland) · Jul 12, 2025 MP demands Ofcom investigation after BBC shows GB News clip of Nigel Farage OFCOM must open an investigation into the BBC giving “undue prominence” to Nigel Farage in its news broadcasts, an MP has said ...
The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2025 Signs of new life: is the British left making a comeback? Talk of a new party led by Jeremy Corbyn is just the latest example of a growing clamour for leftwing alliances
The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2025 Starmer had a chance to thwart the smuggling gangs – with ‘one in, one out’, he has bottled it This messy policy won’t deter desperate asylum seekers. It’s more likely to have been created to appease the likes of Nigel Farage, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights
Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2025 Reform celebrate more by-election wins taking seats from Labour and Tories Nigel Farage’s party swept to victory in polls in key general election target areas