The Latest Breaking News from Reform

PROFESSOR John Curtice has weighed in on John Swinney’s plan to win a second Scottish independence referendum ...

Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has begun a tour that will take in every Welsh constituency before May’s Senedd elections

Rupert Matthews has joined Nigel Farage’s party as he says the ‘dark heart of wokeness’ needs removing from the justice system.

COMMENT: As home secretary Yvette Cooper announces £100m to pay for more border officers and new surveillance technology, among a raft of key measures, Sean O'Grady admits that there is no silver bullet to stop illegal immigration – and that slow, unshowy progress risks playing into Reform UK’s hands

Downing Street indicates that further hostage releases are not required for move to go ahead next month

It is said the centre cannot hold, but what if it does? That’s a frightening recipe for more stasis and more rage, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims

Kitty Thompson, head of campaigns at CEN, said offering solutions for coastal communities could also help the Conservatives challenge Reform.

Their green energy conversation went nuclear, but could the engineering manager and the retired maths teacher agree on Brexit?

COMMENT: Passionate intensity has always tended to be found at the extremes, writes John Rentoul, and new research into party loyalty shows that Labour and the Conservatives are both at risk

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: With parliament now in recess, the prime minister can spend his summer working out a new direction for his turbulent administration, says Andrew Grice – he could do well to remember a key value that Labour ought to stand for