Wales Senedd elections are a ‘referendum’ on Starmer, claims Farage Party leader and Welsh counterpart launch Reform UK manifesto in Newport The Guardian - UK · Mar 5
Donald Trump Mocks Keir Starmer As 'No Winston Churchill' After Iran Caving Donald Trump's claim that Keir Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' has intensified scrutiny of Britain's Iran policy shift, exposing Cabinet tensions over legality, loyalty to Washington and the legacy of past interventions. International Business Times UK · Mar 5
Welsh election is referendum on Starmer’s premiership, says Nigel Farage Speaking at Reform’s Welsh manifesto launch on Thursday, the party leader said the vote in May would ‘end Labour dominance’ in Wales. Evening Standard · Mar 5
Crypto investor based in Thailand donates further £3m to Reform Christopher Harborne’s gift is latest to party’s election war chest and comes amid calls for cap on political donations The Guardian - UK · Mar 5
Mahmood’s immigration plan is Labour’s last chance to stem tide of extremism from left and right NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox looks at how Shabana Mahmood’s intervention on asylum and immigration plays into the debate about the future direction of the Labour Party and why she has emerged as a candidate to replace Keir Starmer The Independent UK · Mar 5
Wes Streeting hits out at Reform UK over Matt Goodwin comments: ‘Return to age-old racism’ IN FULL The Independent UK · Mar 4
Streeting accuses Reform of ‘return to age-old racism’ after by-election candidate’s comments about being British Exclusive: Wes Streeting appears to distance himself from claims – made by both Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer – that the Gorton and Denton by-election was fought on ‘sectarian’ lines The Independent UK · Mar 4
Former Labour councillors join Reform UK Sir Robin Wales, the former Labour mayor of Newham, and Clive Furness, who also served on the council, have joined Reform UK. Evening Standard · Mar 4
Farage unveils two Labour defectors as he makes a push for London votes Nigel Farage admits his party lacks ‘experience on the front line’ as he welcomes a controversial former mayor and ex-council leader The Independent UK · Mar 4
Longest-serving London Labour mayor Sir Robin Wales joins Reform UK Sir Robin Wales accuses the Labour Government of ‘losing its moral compass’ as he joins Reform UK Evening Standard · Mar 4
Labour 'risks losing 600 seats' in London local elections in worse nightmare than Gorton disaster Sir Keir Starmer’s party is facing tough battles against the Greens, Reform UK, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems Evening Standard · Mar 4
Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Mar 4
One in five Reform members want non-white British citizens to be removed from UK, poll finds Reform members are generally ‘more pessimistic, angry and extreme than the British public’, according to the study’s author The Independent UK · Mar 4
The Guardian - UK · Mar 3 Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate
The Independent UK · Mar 3 Rachel Reeves highlights missing Nigel Farage as she brands Reform UK a ‘Tory tribute act’ IN FULL
The Guardian - UK · Mar 3 Labour to scrap government power over elections watchdog amid fears of abuse MPs and campaigners had warned law imposed by Tories could be used by future leaders to ‘undermine democracy’
Evening Standard · Mar 3 Zack Polanski's Greens surge in London - could they even be in first place ahead of Labour? New poll comes ahead of the May local elections when Labour is expected to suffer heavy losses in the capital
The Independent UK · Mar 3 End of a special relationship: Why it is over between Starmer and Trump NEWS ANALYSIS: Donald Trump’s interviews have revealed that his close relationship with Keir Starmer is finished, political editor David Maddox explains that the breakdown is much more than a disagreement over Iran
The Independent UK · Mar 3 Greens leapfrog Labour into second place after historic by-election win, poll shows YouGov said the Greens’ popularity comes as a result of the Gorton and Denton by-election, a victory which caused the party to appear a more viable option and less of a wasted vote
The Independent UK · Mar 2 Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing review – Jonathan Ross’s experiment is a dismal exercise in culture-war needling 2/5 They say opposites attract... or maybe they’re just chained together. Channel 4’s new reality series fails to find the fun in mismatched contestants tethered to each other for money
The Independent UK · Mar 2 Embattled Starmer tells Labour MPs his leadership represents the ‘mainstream majority’ The prime minister addressed a meeting of Labour MPs for the first time since the party suffered a humiliating defeat last week in Gorton and Denton
Evening Standard · Mar 2 ‘Mainstream majority’ do not want Farage or Polanski as PM, Keir Starmer says The Prime Minister spoke to backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2 UK politicians are in a race to the bottom – but there is a simple, unexpected way to help refugees The home secretary is seeking to make refugee status temporary. Let’s go in the opposite direction and fight for an essential right, says Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2 Farage emulating ‘his hero Trump’ in deriding byelection results, says new Green MP Reform leader says without evidence that his party’s candidate came first among UK-born voters, as Hannah Spencer takes seat in parliament