Labour calls on Reform’s Matt Goodwin to reject aides’ ‘racist content’ Members of Gorton byelection candidate’s team reported to have expressed support for far-right groups The Guardian - UK · Feb 15
Reform by-election candidate said it was ‘insane’ to jail man who said ‘burn asylum hotels’ Exclusive: It comes after The Independent revealed that Matt Goodwin called for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check The Independent UK · Feb 15
UK far right lines up behind Rupert Lowe in challenge to Reform MP who fell out with Nigel Farage and has backing of Elon Musk launches anti-immigration party in Great Yarmouth The Guardian - UK · Feb 15
Reform and Greens undermining UK commitment to Nato, Cooper says Foreign secretary says Reform not taking Russian threat seriously while Green leader leaves open possibility of leaving alliance The Guardian - UK · Feb 15
Dining across the divide: ‘Parents giving their kids smartphones, then asking for bans are outsourcing their responsibilities’ An Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan might not agree on football teams, but could they find common ground on mobile phones and AI? The Guardian - UK · Feb 15
Truth is the most ‘dangerous weapon’ against Russia, UK says as it hits back at denial over Navalny’s death Labour foreign secretary Yvette Cooper suggested Moscow could face new sanctions, while his widow has called for Vladimir Putin to be held accountable The Independent UK · Feb 15
Union leaders issue new leadership ultimatum to Starmer Prime minister told a summit in Munich that he ‘ended the week much stronger’ than he started it after attempts to oust him from Downing Street The Independent UK · Feb 14
Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison The Guardian - UK · Feb 14
Ex-Reform MP who came to blows with Farage launches new political party – with very similar name Rupert Lowe once accused Nigel Farage’s group of a ‘brutal smear campaign’ against him The Independent UK · Feb 14
UK migration could be negative this year – how will that hit the economy? Universities, builders and health trusts are feeling the squeeze, as thinktank says effect of zero net migration could be similar to Brexit The Guardian - UK · Feb 14
‘Lamps would go out across Europe’ under Greens or Reform, Starmer to claim The Prime Minister will suggest the two parties would pose a risk to Britain and Europe’s security during a speech in Munich. The Independent UK · Feb 13
Rupert Lowe launches new political party after controversial Reform UK exit Restore Britain formally launched on Friday evening The Independent UK · Feb 13
‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check The Guardian - UK · Feb 13
Only the Tories believe in keeping UK together, Badenoch tells Welsh conference The Conservative leader was speaking to party members in Llandudno ahead of Senedd elections in May. Evening Standard · Feb 13
The Conversation · Feb 13 Votes at 16: the UK government has a fight on its hands – but are politicians all missing the point? The UK government has unveiled plans to lower the voting age to 16 for general elections, heralding the delivery of a Labour pledge first made in 2010.
Evening Standard · Feb 13 Zack Polanski says Labour Party is ‘over’ after taking ‘votes for granted’ The comments come ahead of the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election with the Greens and Reform UK looking to take the seat from Labour
The Guardian - UK · Feb 13 Left or right, Keir? Labour factions jostle for influence in post-McSweeney No 10 Soft left senses chance to push Starmer into progressive pivot, but leftward turn would be fiercely resisted by some
Evening Standard · Feb 13 Nigel Farage's Reform UK could 'come through the middle' to win Gorton and Denton by-election - new analysis A split in the Left-leaning vote may pave the way for a Reform victory, says Rob Ford, Professor of Political Science at Manchester University
The Guardian - UK · Feb 13 Reform UK’s Kent council faces ‘extreme risk’ after passing first budget Councillors vote for 3.99% council tax increase while mounting ‘attack on the vulnerable’, opposition says
The Guardian - UK · Feb 13 If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
The Guardian - UK · Feb 12 Labour and Reform candidates clash over women feeling threatened by far-right rhetoric Angeliki Stogia tells Matthew Goodwin, who turned up to event with security, ‘women are scared to leave the house’
The Guardian - UK · Feb 12 Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile Editorial: Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gift to divisive forces in British society
The Conversation · Feb 12 Matt Goodwin’s ‘English ethnicity’ rhetoric: it’s important to ask why politicians want to sort people into categories For Reform parliamentary candidate and former academic Matt Goodwin: “Englishness is an ethnicity that is deeply rooted in a people that can trace their roots back over generations.” By contrast, he argues, liberal progressives believe “anybody can be English as long as they sign a piece of paper and identify…
The Independent UK · Feb 12 Reform by-election candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’
The Independent UK · Feb 12 Britain leads world when it comes to migration concerns, major poll finds More than one in five (21 per cent) Britons say immigration is the biggest problem the country faces, but the issue barely registers as a top concern elsewhere