The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Farage

The two rivals mocked each other for being a ‘clown and ‘useless’ on X, formerly Twitter

Stevens hopes her work as Welsh secretary securing record funding for Wales will help stop the party haemorrhaging votes to Reform and Plaid Cymru

NEWS ANALYSIS: After Sir Keir Starmer’s latest U-turn, has the prime minister created more problems than he has solved, Archie Mitchell asks

Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Prior to putting before parliament its plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits, the government must first complete essential groundwork that ought to have been done already – namely, consulting with those at the sharp end of the change: people with disabilities

Nigel Farage’s party would take seats from Labour and the Conservatives in outer London, the YouGov survey suggests

Reform’s George Finch, 18, will take over as interim leader of Warwickshire County Council

Laila Cunningham dramatically defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives last week, saying she was ‘tired of defending failure’

John Swinney has ruled out a coalition with Reform UK after the next Holyrood election, but has not appeared to do the same with Scottish Labour

No party would win an overall majority, but a YouGov poll suggests Nigel Farage would have the most seats by far

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