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COMMENT: In directing their fire at Nigel Farage, Reform’s opponents risk building him up, helping him seize the agenda – and further exposing their own limitations and failures over immigration, says Andrew Grice

The Trades Union Congress says while AI could have transformational potential, it also risks entrenching inequality

Reform UK leader cuts loose with far-right anti-immigration rhetoric, but still finds little pushback from Labour or Tories

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Reform UK’s plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission will be popular, but it is unworkable. It will also give the prime minister a winning idea – about how he should now assume a pivotal role in updating international…

Keir Starmer has refused to criticise Nigel Farage’s speech where he outlined his plans to deport 600,000 asylum seekers which he called a…

COMMENT: According to its thin and unconvincing immigration plan, Reform UK expects the British government to pay the Taliban and the Iranian regime to take back its asylum seekers – and yet the party still has no answers for many crucial questions, says John Rentoul

Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said Vladimir Putin and others were stalling peace talks and having ‘unrealistic’ asks.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage laid out details of his plans for mass deportation of migrants as the small boats crisis continues to grow, but The Independent’s political editor David Maddox has heard all the same rhetoric before

Keir Starmer has left the door open to signing deportation deals with the Taliban after Nigel Farage set out Reform UK’s plans for mass…