The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Farage

While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Labour now wants to use the damage from Brexit to combat the threat of Nigel Farage, but the union has bigger fish to fry, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

‘Reform's meetings are starting to sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council,’ said a Lib Dem spokesman

NEWS ANALYSIS: Reform UK appears to have an impregnable lead in the polls, but political editor David Maddox highlights how the cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacuum

Professor James Orr is understood to be close to JD Vance and influential in Donald Trump’s administration with his right-wing views on abortion and immigration

Linden Kemkaran told fellow Kent councillors those who disagreed with decisions would have to ‘suck it up’

The weekend was buzzing with significant developments in the cryptocurrency world. From Ripple Labs’ ambitious $1 billion fundraising initiative to bold Bitcoin predictions by Mexico’s third-richest person and a crypto-focused political agenda, the crypto space continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

Cambridge University’s James Orr was described as ‘a brilliant academic, theologian, thinker’ by Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf.

Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last election