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COMMENT: The Reform UK leader’s warning of civil disobedience on a vast scale – following outbreaks of violence over asylum seekers – has hijacked the national conversation. But there are ways the government can take back control, says Andrew Grice

In today’s newsletter: A year into opposition, Kemi Badenoch’s​ party is still searching for its place in UK politics

Labour MP warned taxpayers ‘deserve better’ before George Finch, 19, was put in charge of Warwickshire County Council

COMMENT: Nigel Farage’s plan to halve crime – by spending £17bn on building ‘Nightingale prisons’, jailing for life those convicted three times, and sending Britain’s worst offenders to jail in El Salvador – simply doesn’t add up. But should we be worried that neither Labour nor the Tories seem able…

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The Reform council leader said police should have ‘the proper backing’ to shoot people

Giving 16-year-olds the vote is good, not least to stop the rightward lurch, but real change would mean scrapping first past the post, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Reform UK leader claims UK will see ‘civil disobedience on vast scale’ unless migrants stop arriving in UK on small boats

Don’t believe the stats that show violent crime is going down, says Farage: just turn the graphs the other way up and use your own data