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Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.

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Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’

Ellie Chowns calls on Keir Starmer to resign as PM at PMQs

Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch

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Reform MP Lee Anderson mocked by Angela Rayner over embarrassing by-election blunder

Olivia Barber
28 January, 2026

Lee Anderson has shared photos of himself campaigning for the Gorton and Denton by-election – in the wrong constituency

Suella Braverman speaking at National Conservatism Conference

Suella Braverman says ‘I believe in by-elections’ but rules out one in her own constituency

Basit Mahmood
28 January, 2026

‘Braverman is the very reason there should be automatic byelections if someone defects.’

Matt Goodwin, Reform's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election

Reform by-election candidate refuses to retract claim that people born in UK not necessarily British

Olivia Barber
28 January, 2026

Matt Goodwin has been criticised for his “racist” views about Britishness

Matt Goodwin, Reform's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election
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Matthew Goodwin named as Reform UK candidate in Gorton and Denton by-election

Basit Mahmood
27 January, 2026

We should point out that Goodwin is also a vocal supporter of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, an autocratic ruler known for attacks on free speech.

Andy Burnham
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Number 10 says Andy Burnham was told in advance he would be rejected as Labour by-election candidate

Basit Mahmood
27 January, 2026

No 10 “therefore interpret his application as an explicit attempt to destabilise Starmer and sow dissent, rather than – which he claims – see off the threat from Reform”

£10 notes pegged to a washing line
News

Why it’s time for CEO-to-worker pay caps

Paddy Goffey
27 January, 2026

A new approach based on CEO to worker pay gap caps could ensure execs are committed to providing a public good, as opposed to being driven solely by financial incentives.

Reform UK
News

Reform councillors condemned over posts backing ICE officers in U.S. after fatal shooting

Basit Mahmood
27 January, 2026

Pretti’s family have hit out at the ‘sickening lies told about our son by the Trump administration’.

News

Suella Braverman brutally mocked after defecting to Reform UK

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2026

In the least surprising defection ever…

Suella Braverman was rattled by Lewis Goodall's criticism of Brexiteers' assumptions
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Priti Patel has meltdown when LBC presenter points out negative impact of Brexit

Olivia Barber
26 January, 2026

Patel accused Goodall of giving a “political lecture”

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Where the Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy Needs to Go Further 

Jenny Canham
26 January, 2026

The Animal Welfare Strategy is a good start, but if it is to be a document we can be proud of, it must close gaps where cruelty is most extreme

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