Reform UK group leader at Cornwall Council resigns from role
Yet another resignation will add to the sense that Reform is a party in chaos, with a number of councillors having quit since the local elections in May.
Basit Mahmood
Reform’s DOGE unit fails to find savings in Kent
Now it seems that the unit’s first test case has utterly failed, with Kent County Council considering a 5% hike in council tax.
8 Reform UK councils ‘set to hike taxes’ despite party promise to cut tax bills
“A budget consultation for next year opens the door to council tax rises up to a maximum 5 per cent.”
Nobel committee chair roasts Trump: ‘We only give the award to people of courage and integrity’
When Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked why Trump wasn’t given the award, he suggested Trump wasn’t worthy.
Bridget Phillipson pushes the government to abolish two-child benefit cap in full
Phillipson is pushing for the cap to be lifted in full, the Guardian reports.
Even Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy, poll finds
The polling also shows that Brexit is also much more likely to be considered a failure (38%) than a success (24%) by GE2024 Tory voters.
Reform UK deletes social media post after Labour legal threat
“Reform UK confirmed the posts have since been removed from its social media accounts.”
Lord Heseltine slams Reform UK as ‘equivalent of 1930s right wing fascists’
“Enoch Powell did the same in the 1960s and it was a wholly destructive contribution to a civilised society.”
TUC warns Tory plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers’ rights
The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.
Unlike Kemi Badenoch voters want the UK to remain a member of the ECHR, poll finds
The Trades Union Congress has warned that withdrawing from the ECHR would also amount to an attack on workers rights