PopCons reassemble and Jacob Rees-Mogg is the sanest person in the room The tone is relentlessly delusional – to listen to this lot you’d think the last 14 years were a socialist paradise The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2024
Mapped: Reform won five seats, but made gains in hundreds Reform support ate into the Conservative vote The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024
Who are the five new Reform MPs elected across the UK? Everything you need to know Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party made a dramatic statement at the general election, winning more than four million votes and taking a significant bite out of support for the Tories. The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024
Tories turn on Suella Braverman as she is hit with furious backlash after LGBTQ flag 'monstrous' outburst The former Home Secretary faces huge backlash after criticising the flying of the Progress Pride flag to ‘show how liberal and progressive we are’ Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2024
'Fox is in the henhouse,' warns Lee Anderson as he and Nigel Farage get to Parliament They lined up in Westminster’s Great Hall with other Reform MPs Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2024
‘I am not AI’: Reform UK candidate accused of being bot speaks out Real life human Reform candidate Mark Matlock thinks there’s no such thing as bad publicity The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact details The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024
Outrage as Suella Braverman brands Pride flag flying ‘a horrible political campaign’ Former home secretary condemns ‘liberal Conservatives’ in her latest rant, facing backlash from her own party The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2024
Tories split over timeline to elect leader with Sunak hoping to quit by autumn Some senior figures in party fear appointment of interim replacement for ex-PM could present Nigel Farage with an ‘open goal’ The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024
Suella Braverman’s Tory leadership bid ‘dead before it starts’ as key ally expected to back rival The former home secretary’s expected campaign to take over from Rishi Sunak has been dealt an early blow as Danny Kruger is set to support Robert Jenrick if he runs The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2024
‘Disproportionate’ UK election results boost calls to ditch first past the post Campaigners for electoral reform say outcome has renewed pressure for proportional representation The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024
Is UK bucking Europe’s trend of moving to the right? Labour’s landslide victory gave hope to progressives worldwide but may be as much practical as ideological The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024
Suella Braverman losing support as potential party leader, Tories say Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Kemi Badenoch, who have all ruled out deal with Reform, seen as more viable candidates The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024
‘Nobody can fix the country’: voters in former Blair town sceptical of change Let down by broken Tory promises of levelling up, some in Newton Aycliffe and across north-east turned to Reform The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024 Labour candidate defeated by Farage reveals safety fears during campaign Jovan Owusu-Nepaul tells of vitriol from Reform supporters and says he was concerned for safety of those around him
The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2024 Braverman warns Tory party will cease to exist unless it neutralises Farage and Reform The Tory leadership contest has kicked off with a warning that the Conservative Party could cease to exist as an electoral force if things do not change
The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024 Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford
The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024 ‘Everyone is fed up’: Reform sets sights on Labour stronghold Barnsley – but Farage still divides opinion Labour has long had a grip on the South Yorkshire town but Reform is hot on the party’s heels after taking a third of the vote in Barnsley South
The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024 I’m hoping my son, aged five, has the makings of a political commentator We’ve tried to instil values, but he has no awareness of the political system – does that matter?
The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2024 Meet James McMurdock, the fifth Reform MP that nobody expected Exclusive: Reform UK’s shock fifth MP reveals he will make some sacrifices to enter Parliament but is ‘up for the challenge’
The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024 No Boris Johnson, no deals with Nigel Farage: it’s time for the Tories to get serious The party must look to a new generation and restore its reputation for economic competence
The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024 ‘Honeymoon will be very, very short’: rightwing media is set to turn on Starmer The new Labour government won’t have long to prove itself before the press holds its feet to the fire, as the Sun has promised
The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024 Resist ‘idiotic’ move to the right in leadership race, top Tories urge Senior figures tell the party not to rush into choosing a new leader, citing 2005 and David Cameron as a successful precedent
The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2024 Farage does not want ‘Tory poison’ in his party as he plans Reform’s path to power Exclusive: Nigel Farage mapped out his plans over a 4am cup of tea – and it does not involve the Tories
The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2024 Nigel Farage just 364,474 votes shy of becoming leader of the opposition, analysis shows Reform UK won 14 per cent of votes in Thursday’s general election, but has gained just five MPs, due to the even spread of its support around the country