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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Holyrood candidates pledge to resist Tories’ post-Brexit border regime
Campaigners fear the ‘hostile environment’ will soon be extended to thousands of EU nationals.
“Privatisation by stealth”: Dozens of MPs slam private takeover of 49 GP practices
Left-wing MPs are sounding the alarm over a US insurance giant’s new ‘partnership’ with surgeries in London.
England’s local elections: What you need to know
Democracy Club’s network of volunteers have trawled through thousands of nomination papers for England’s local elections in May. Here’s what they learnt.
Plans to make misogyny a crime miss the point
The strategy fails to address the root cause of misogyny – male violence against women.
Interview: transparency campaigner on the lobbying industry
Tamasin Cave tells us how the Greensill scandal exposes the utter lack of oversight
How to tackle the rot in the lobbying system
The lobbying rules in the UK are not fit for purpose — how can we fix them?
The UK’s digital skills divide is becoming a chasm. Here’s how to tackle it
As employer demand for digital skills continues to grow, the report shows that digital skills training has is declining.
Young French people are increasingly likely to vote for Le Pen. Why? And what can be done?
Macron may make it over the line in 2022. But the long term trends in France are seriously concerning.
Greensill is only the tip of the iceberg – and our watchdogs are toothless
Poor regulation is the result of a broken political culture.
The NHS shows the way in approaches to climate change
The NHS is the model of how the state can democratise action on climate change.