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Racism

Reform UK

Ex-Reform leader faces council racism investigation

Basit Mahmood
12 February, 2026 (2 weeks ago)

It is not the first time that the Reform group on Staffordshire County Council has been embroiled in racism allegations

Reform UK
News

Reform forced to drop another candidate over ‘abhorrent and sickening’ social media posts

Olivia Barber
30 January, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

Mike Manning made racist comments online and described the Nazis as “peace-loving”

Laura Anne Jones
News

Reform Senedd member suspended over Chinese slur says she is ‘not a racist’

Olivia Barber
14 January, 2026

Laura Anne Jones was suspended from the Senedd over a racial slur but says she is ‘not a racist, by any stretch of the imagination’

A Stand Up to Racism demonstration
Opinion

When shame left the room: racism, immigration, and Britain’s moral retreat

Claire Jones
9 January, 2026

Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence, immigration narratives & the media. Can we reverse this fall? 

Nigel Farage has been criticised over his Glasgow schoolchildren comments
News

5 Reform disasters this week: Your weekly round up of where it’s going wrong for Farage’s party

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2026

Whether it’s their actions in local government, or Nigel Farage’s latest scandal or what their candidates and members are up to, here’s where it’s gone wrong for Reform this week.

Nigel Farage speaking at cryptocurrency event
News

Journalist shouted down at Reform press briefing when asking Nigel Farage about alleged racist and antisemitic comments

Basit Mahmood
7 January, 2026

That a journalist was shouted down with shouts of ‘boring’ over such serious allegations of racism and antisemitism shows you how disgraceful Reform UK are.

A photo of an NHS protest with the Left Foot Forward logo in the top right corner
News

Letters to the editor: What progressives can learn from 2025

LFF Reporter
23 December, 2025

We asked progressives from across the political spectrum about what lessons they think we need to learn and how to fight back in the year ahead.

Chris Parry refused to apologise for his offensive comments
News

Reform candidate refuses to apologise for saying David Lammy should ‘go home to the Caribbean’

Olivia Barber
16 December, 2025

Chris Parry would not confirm that the former foreign secretary’s “primary loyalty” is to the UK

Starmer
News

Keir Starmer takes apart Reform during PMQs: Tells Farage ‘chaos and division’ are his life’s work

Basit Mahmood
10 December, 2025

“It’s not a coincidence Mr Speaker, because chaos and division is the Member of Clacton’s life work.”

Reform UK
News

Reform councillor defends candidate from party’s own racist supporters

Basit Mahmood
10 December, 2025

Rather than welcoming Addy, Reform supporters and accounts supportive of Reform claimed that he ‘shouldn’t be eligible to stand for election in Britain’, while others called for his deportation.

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