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GB News blames Reform’s Derbyshire defeat on tactical voting rather than local failures

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The right-wing network’s coverage cast the defeat not as a judgement on Reform’s local performance, but as evidence of an emerging ‘Stop Reform’ plot.

Why a Tory-Reform pact suits the right-wing press more than either party – for now

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Editors may relish the drama, but behind the scenes they must be tearing their hair out as the feud escalates. “Stop fighting each other and end the Labour nightmare,” pleaded the Daily Mail, like a weary parent begging quarrelling children to behave.

Right-Wing Watch

More Scots would back independence if Reform entered government, poll suggests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

“Given support for independence remains tied, Brexit alone is clearly not a catalyst that can itself prompt a surge in support for separation — but, on the basis of this poll, the advent of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister may well be.”

A photo of a Scottish independence protest with a Saltire flagm with the word "yes" imposed on it

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Rachel Reeves leaving Downing Street to deliver her budget
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The government’s budget is simply managing decline

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The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth

Nigel Farage speaking at cryptocurrency event
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Nigel Farage rakes in another £200,000 from second jobs

Olivia Barber
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The Reform leader has made over £1.3 million from second jobs since he was elected as an MP in July 2024

Rachel Reeves delivering the Autumn Budget today
News

The Budget takes steps to tackle cost-of-living crisis but the government must go further, say Labour MPs

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27 November, 2025

Many MPs have welcomed the abolition of the two-child limit but say the government should have focused on making the super rich pay more tax

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Shadow chancellor Mel Stride on BBC Breakfast
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Mel Stride says scrapping the two-child limit is the ‘wrong choice’

Olivia Barber
27 November, 2025

The Tory MP thinks scrapping a policy that has pushed hundreds of thousands of children into poverty is the ‘wrong choice’

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
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Covid corruption commissioner chases down nearly £400m of dodgy Tory Covid contracts, says Rachel Reeves

Basit Mahmood
26 November, 2025

“Tory contracts handed out by Tory ministers to Tory peers and Tory friends and well that money belongs in our schools and in our hospitals and we are getting that money back.”

Rachel Reeves delivering the Autumn Budget today
News

Five key takeaways from the Autumn Budget

Olivia Barber
26 November, 2025

There were some radical choices in Rachel Reeves’ Budget, but some will leave low and middle-income workers paying the price for reducing the national debt

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Labour confirms abolition of two-child cap which will reduce child poverty by 450,000

Basit Mahmood
26 November, 2025

The removal of the cap will benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year and reduce child poverty by 450,000, according to the OBR.

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Farage’s former classmate calls his racism denials “fundamentally dishonest”

Olivia Barber
26 November, 2025

“He is being fundamentally dishonest in everything that he says there.”

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More than 500 immigration law experts speak out against Labour’s asylum proposals

Olivia Barber
26 November, 2025

Experts argue that the policies are “gimmicks” designed to make the government look tough, but they are not evidence-based

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