5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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Tories’ controversial Elections Bill could break international law, says QC
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Protestors gather outside Parliament in bid to stop Cambo oil field development
MPs are being urged to reject plans to ramp up oil extraction near Shetland.
Planned national insurance hike labelled regressive move that will disproportionately hit the youngest and poorest
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