Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited faced Companies House action over four consecutive years of delayed filings The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025
Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about Starmer, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025
There are plenty of ways to humanely control British borders. So why isn’t Keir Starmer using them? Labour’s incoherent asylum policies are vilifying refugees. A better and more compassionate route is possible, says the Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025
‘Like going to the in-laws’: Conservative conference to be steeped in apathy As Kemi Badenoch faces a make-or-break gathering her biggest challenge will be to make herself appear relevant The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025
Conservatives to take UK out of ECHR if it wins election, Badenoch announces Shadow attorney general Baron Wolfson of Tredegar KC tells Tory leader ECHR restricts Government policy but warns withdrawal is not a ‘panacea’. Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2025
Conservatives to take UK out of European Convention of Human Rights if it wins election The declaration was made ahead of the party’s upcoming conference in Manchester The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2025
First female Archbishop of Canterbury still an outlier among world's top religious leaders For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597 The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2025
Mapped: The areas threatened by Reform’s controversial pro-fracking agenda revealed New analysis identifies parliamentary areas that could be vulnerable to development for fracking if Nigel Farage’s party were to get into government The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2025
Green leader warns of authoritarian ‘alarm bells’ in conference speech Zack Polanski, the newly elected leader of the Green Party, criticised Labour and Reform in conference speech on Friday. Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2025
Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhood, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025
Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025
Zack Polanski warns Keir Starmer’s Britain is descending into authoritarianism The politician is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2025
Kemi Badenoch is just ‘a Reform tribute act’, claims Ed Miliband as he lashes out at Tory climate policy The energy secretary has written for The Independent condemning the Tory leader’s decision to ditch net zero policies The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2025
UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – as it happened Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025
Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2025 Kemi Badenoch ‘staying the course’ to fix Tory party despite ‘tough times’ The Conservative leader said blows traded between Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage were ‘not serious behaviour’.
Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2025 Labour are ‘handmaidens’ to Reform, Green Party leader to tell conference Zack Polanski will also insist that migrants and refugees ‘are part of what makes Britain great’.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025 Reform UK council in Nottinghamshire ends ban on local journalists Shut-out of Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025 Our former Welsh leader ‘betrayed us’, says Reform candidate Llyr Powell has come under scrutiny for his links to Nathan Gill, having worked as his constituency caseworker while he was an MEP.
Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2025 Badenoch brushes off defection of former Tory armed forces minister to Reform Sarah Atherton lost her seat in last year’s general election.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025 Inequality and despair bolster Reform UK in Kent Letters: Cllr Teresa Murray on how the Reform-run council in Kent is driving hostility towards asylum seekers and dismantling public services. Plus letters from Peter Riddle and Paul Kane
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025 Voices: A racist and sexist locker-room culture still exists at the Met I left five years ago COMMENT: The BBC’s ‘Panorama’ investigation into Charing Cross police station has unveiled more shocking behaviour. As former Met Police officer Shabnam Chaudhri writes, nothing has changed – and it must
The National (Scotland) · Oct 2, 2025 I went to Anas Sarwar's DJ set at Labour conference. Never again “WE will reject Reform and beat the SNP… I’m ready to win,” Anas Sarwar told a crowd of students at a Labour conference event and late night…
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025 Nadine Dorries is back – with her incisive thinking and deranged conspiracy theories Dorries is a woman of no regrets for whom the past isn’t just another country, it’s a parallel universe
Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2025 Former Conservative armed forces minister joins Reform UK Former Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton has joined Nigel Farage’s party and hopes to stand in the Welsh Parliament elections.
The National (Scotland) · Oct 2, 2025 Reform UK councillor's car-crash STV interview slammed by Falkirk council leader THE leader of Falkirk Council has slammed a Reform UK councillor’s interview where she referred to being "born and bred here" during a…