
Keir Starmer says despite pressure he will not change position on Iran war
“There’s been a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war and I’m not going to change my position on the war.”

“There’s been a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war and I’m not going to change my position on the war.”

He also cited serious concerns around candidate selection as one of the reasons he decided to stand down.

Discussing Goodwin on the News Agents, presenter and journalist Emily Maitlis described him as an ‘embarrassment to Reform’.

Party leader Nigel Farage had vowed to professionalise vetting process

Reform says it is “working on recruiting those people as we speak” out of a fear “every unelected body in the country will be hostile to us.”

‘Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch for wanting to ‘dive in with both feet into the war without thinking through the consequences’.

The right-wing party has lost at least 67 candidates since May 2025,

That Reform’s policy chief feels comfortable sharing a stage with someone who holds such disgraceful views speaks volumes of the kind of values Farage is comfortable with.

Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures

It’s not the first time that the Reform-led council has been embroiled in a racism scandal.