Reform’s Laila Cunningham gets reality check over drilling for more oil in North Sea
Former Labour Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon tore apart right-wing claims about oil and gas in the North Sea
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Reform criticised for ‘another unfunded giveaway’ on flights and attempting to blame high energy bills on net zero
The Green Party has said the policy is ‘dressed up as a special offer’ but will help wealthier people
BMA hits back at prime minister’s 48-hour deadline to cancel doctor strikes
‘Creating posts and improving patient care should not be dependent on calling off a strike.’
Reform’s plan to rip up workers’ rights is ‘massively out of step’ with the British public, new mega-poll reveals
The TUC and Hope Not Hate’s poll has found that the Employment Rights’ Act is ‘hugely popular’, including in Reform MPs’ constituencies
Green Party sets sights on targeting trade union members disillusioned with Labour
Zack Polanski is set to make keynote speeches at several trade union conferences
Nigel Farage gets repeatedly heckled at Reform event in London
‘We will not allow Nigel Farage’s hate to exist unopposed in London’
Police found ‘no evidence’ of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election after Reform complaint
‘Farage is a bad loser’
Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness
The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.
Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading
The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.
From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream
The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.