Support for Labour has dropped to a new low of 21% while the Conservatives lead on 26%, ahead of Reform on 25%. The cost of living was the top concern while climate change barely made the top 10. Time to sack Ed Miliband?
Reform UK would be on course to win in May’s local elections – except Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has axed key votes. "They're terrified of us. The whole system is rotten," the party said.
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform’s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
The Conservatives have told Keir Starmer that "it is not far-Right to stand up for the victims" of child sexual abuse and that "smearing people who raise those issues is exactly how this got covered up in the first place".
It isn't so much that the Tories are getting more popular as that Labour is getting less so. Which illustrates a more general predicament for the Tories and any other party that might have aspirations to government.
In an unexpected development, two men seen in CCTV footage attacking police officers at Manchester airport in July have been charged by the CPS and the police officers involved have all been cleared. Only took five months.
Elon Musk has backed Reform U.K. after meeting Nigel Farage at Donald Trump’s home in Florida, tweeting his agreement that "Britain needs Reform".
A civil servant said she felt forced to resign from her job at the Department of Work and Pensions after being investigated for sharing posts from Reform U.K. on her personal Facebook account.
Reform MPs have been banned from asking questions about the teenager accused of the Southport massacre in Parliament, Nigel Farage has revealed, amid concerns about the public being kept in the dark.
We have a situation where there are two major Right-leaning parties and they refuse to work together. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for disaster in the first-past-the-post electoral system.
