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

Basit Mahmood
Today

“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
Today

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
Today

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

Nigel Farage responds to school racism allegations

Latest Posts

Ukraine

Mike Buckley: What would a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine look like?

Mike Buckley
16 March, 2022

‘Putin will suffer consequences enough, potentially costing his leadership. But for now, the priority must be ending the war as quickly and completely as possible.’

MBS

‘Going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy strategy’: Boris Johnson slammed for begging Saudi dictator for help

Basit Mahmood
16 March, 2022

‘Saying we are not going to rely on Russia and then going to Saudi Arabia is not an energy strategy.’

Rachel Hopkins MP: Defending BTECs is vital to a progressive skills agenda

Rachel Hopkins
16 March, 2022

‘Under the Conservative Party’s rule, the skills agenda has been nothing more than an afterthought. Apprenticeship starts have fallen by 38%, the number of adult learners has dropped by 4 million’

Nadine Dorries at London Tech Week 2021

Online Safety Bill returns to Parliament amid chorus of criticism even from Tories

John Lubbock
15 March, 2022

Nadine Dorries announced the return of the Online Safety Bill, but even Conservatives worry that it will chill free speech online.

Daniel Kawczynski

Tory MP deletes Twitter account after claiming it would be ‘immoral’ for Britain to take in more Ukrainian refugees

Basit Mahmood
15 March, 2022

His comments also drew criticism from his own Tory association

Refugees

Diane Abbott MP: The government should be more like the British people when it comes to welcoming refugees

Diane Abbott
15 March, 2022

‘Ministers have offered delay, misdirection, legalism and conditionality. By contrast the public has offered concern, donations, and some are even willing to open their homes’.

Russia protest

‘They’re lying to you’: Editor interrupts Russian TV news broadcast with ‘no war’ protest

Basit Mahmood
15 March, 2022

‘No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.’

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
14 March, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Oligarch mansion

‘Putin go f*** yourself’: Squatters occupy mansion owned by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska

Basit Mahmood
14 March, 2022

“You occupy Ukraine, we occupy you.”

Sajid Javid speaking on the Health and Care Bill in the House of Commons

Sajid Javid defends ‘economic relationship’ with Saudi Arabia after country executes 81 people in single day

Basit Mahmood
14 March, 2022

“While it is to be welcomed that we don’t send money to Putin of course, would we want to deals with the Saudis, noting their human rights record?”

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