Reform UK’s ICE-style deportation plan condemned as ‘sadistic’ Zia Yusuf sets out proposals and calls migration an ‘invasion’, as rights groups decry ‘grotesque’ measures The Guardian - UK · Feb 23
Reform UK’s deportation command will not face same issues as Ice in US – Yusuf The party said it would set up a unit to ‘track down, detain and deport’ people in the country illegally. Evening Standard · Feb 23
How Nigel Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain could put thousands at risk of deportation Farage says the plan would save over £200bn – but the figures have been called into question The Independent UK · Feb 23
What is Reform UK's proposed visa ban for six mostly Muslim countries? Reform UK’s new home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, revealed details of the ‘visa freezes’ during a speech in Dover Evening Standard · Feb 23
Peter Mandelson arrest latest: Peer released on bail as Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s family issues statement The ex-Labour peer is being questioning after he was alleged to have leaked senstive information to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary The Independent UK · Feb 23
As Pauline Hanson’s One Nation roars back, what can Australia learn from the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK? It may not just be immigration and economic anxiety at play but also a sense of cultural anger and loss. Vigilance is needed The Guardian - AU · Feb 22
My late brother’s struggles in school inspired Send overhaul, Starmer says The reforms come as part of a major overhaul of the education system in England being set out by the government on Monday The Independent UK · Feb 22
Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search The Guardian - UK · Feb 22
Reform plans ICE-style borders agency for UK under new migration plan Amnesty International UK accused Reform UK of scapegoating migrants to ‘justify mass deportations and expanded police surveillance’ The Independent UK · Feb 22
'Don't demonise' young Londoners, Reform's Zia Yusuf warned as he backs far more stop and search to cut knife crime Nigel Farage’s party is also calling for ‘visa freezes’ on Pakistan and other countries if they refuse to take back migrants with no legal right to stay in UK Evening Standard · Feb 22
Nigel Farage accused of ‘Maga stunts’ for saying he was denied access to Chagos Islands Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelago The Guardian - UK · Feb 22
The Guardian view on Scottish Labour: Keir Starmer needs Anas Sarwar’s act of betrayal to pay off Editorial: The leader of Scottish Labour will use its spring conference to demonstrate that he is his own man. Ironically, the prime minister’s survival may depend on his success The Guardian - UK · Feb 22
Ex-defence secretary accuses Nigel Farage of ‘performing Maga stunt’ with failed Chagos ‘aid mission’ Former defence secretary Ben Wallace hit out at Nigel Farage’s actions, saying that no MP can visit the Chagos archipelago without pre-clearance and accusing him of performing Trump-style stunts The Independent UK · Feb 22
Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections? The Guardian - UK · Feb 22
The Conversation · Feb 22 The Epstein scandal has battered Britain’s political establishment. Can the radical-right Reform party benefit? The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office will heap yet more pressure on the beleaguered government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The Independent UK · Feb 21 We will halve disadvantage gap in schools, ministers say in landmark education reforms The government will reform how schools get targeted disadvantage funding as part of an attempt to tackle the gap in achievement between pupils from poorer backgrounds compared with their more affluent peers
The Guardian - UK · Feb 21 Don’t be fooled by recent good news, the UK economy is still in a precarious state Labour MPs may clamour for bolder spending, but – like their Tory and Reform counterparts – they ask for the unaffordable
The Independent UK · Feb 21 What Reform UK’s senior figures really think about women and families As Reform UK surges in the polls and attempts to get its top team ready to fight an election, The Independent has taken a look at exactly what key figures in the party have said about marriage, women, abortion and fertility – and what it might mean for policy
The Guardian - UK · Feb 21 Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women? Critics link Farage’s ‘Trump-lite’ condescension to female journalists to Reform’s moves against women’s rights
The Guardian - UK · Feb 21 Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour’s appeal? After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK
The Independent UK · Feb 21 How this forgotten corner of Manchester could redefine the age-old battle between the left and right A by-election in Gorton and Denton on Thursday could see a new frontier emerge in British politics, as Dan Haygarth finds out
The Independent UK · Feb 21 Sir Ed Davey to warn that Trump’s America ‘cannot become Farage’s Britain’ The UK Liberal Democrat leader will warn against the rise of Reform UK as he addresses his party’s conference in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Evening Standard · Feb 20 We are Conservatives, and no longer all things to all people – Bowie The shadow Scottish secretary urged party members to ‘never apologise’ for being Conservative.
The Conversation · Feb 20 Who will win in Gorton and Denton? What the results of every byelection since 2010 tell us The fight is on for the Gorton and Denton byelection on February 26. It is a three-way contest between Labour, Reform and the Greens. According to Electoral Calculus, a site which runs regular MRP (multi-level regression post stratification) surveys, Reform will win with 32% of the vote, the Greens will…
Evening Standard · Feb 20 'On a knife edge': Thousands of undecided voters set to sway Gorton by-election race between Reform, Greens and Labour Nigel Farage, Green leader Zack Polanski and Sir Keir Starmer’s party are battling it out in a heated contest