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Nigel Farage brutally mocked after trying to explain why Reform MPs walked out of PMQs

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

“Petulant hissy fit man having highlighted the very reason why he is unfit for office then plays on it to the crowd of paying gullibles.”

Nigel Farage at PMQs

Reform’s growing list of policy U-turns

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Reform has dropped its pledge to part-nationalise water and energy companies in its latest U-turn

Richard Tice goes on lengthy rant about an investigation into his taxes

Reform’s year in power in local government: A year of tax rises, cuts and defections

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Nothing but broken promises, council tax rises and infighting among its councillors.

Nigel Farage responds to school racism allegations

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Reform UK deputy Richard Tice slammed for saying mental health is ‘modern equivalent of back pain’

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2025

Reform UK have once more shown how out of touch and lacking in compassion they are, after the party’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice compared mental health difficulties to ‘back pain’. He made the horrendous comments while appearing on LBC takingtest

Kemi Badenoch
News

Kemi Badenoch repeats ‘absurd’ race swap conspiracy theory spread by Elon Musk

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2025

A post on X claiming the boy the Adolescence protagonist is based on was black, not white, went viral and was commented on by Musk.

Badenoch and stride
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Tories brutally mocked over press conference backdrop

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2025

The Tory party’s latest attempt to cut through to voters has failed, after it was brutally mocked over a press conference backdrop that looked like an ‘abandoned mattress’. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride had organised thetest

A teachers' pay protest
News

New research illustrates how teachers’ pay lags considerably behind other professions

Chris Jarvis
1 April, 2025

The National Education Union say this research illustrates the need for its demands for significant pay improvements

A photo of a ballot box
News

Tories set to make significant losses to Reform UK in local elections

Olivia Barber
1 April, 2025

‘Reform UK look like the main gainers as they could take control of eight councils to gain their first real power-base in local government.’

A photo of a protest against the bedroom tax
Opinion

The North is still suffering inequality as a result of 12 years of the Bedroom Tax

India Gerritsen
1 April, 2025

Ending the bedroom tax is one step towards tackling regional inequality—because where you live, and what you can afford, shouldn’t hamper your future

Opinion

The 91% fudge: How planning delays are being spun to hide a broken system

Chris Worrall
1 April, 2025

MHCLG’s latest figures say 91% of planning applications were decided on time in the last quarter of 2024. Housing columnist Chris Worrall explains why that figure hides the real story

Victoria Atkins
News

Tories accused of hypocrisy as shadow minister accepts free Cheltenham tickets

Olivia Barber
1 April, 2025

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins accepted two tickets to the Cheltenham races, while the Tories criticised Reeves for accepting concert tickets

A photo of Keir Starmer speaking in the Commons
News

Green Party co-leader accuses Keir Starmer of ‘dancing to Farage’s tune’ over small boats

Olivia Barber
1 April, 2025

‘The only way to stop people being forced into the hands of people smugglers is to introduce safe routes for people to seek safety in the UK.’

A photo of Julia Davies, a member of Patriotic Millionaires UK
News

Patriotic Millionaires member perfectly sums up why a wealth tax would be fair

Olivia Barber
31 March, 2025

“No matter what the lobby groups who don’t want to tax wealth will tell us, it is not going to be a problem for wealthy people to pay that.”

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