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Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime AgencyThe rise in public support for Reform UK – and Nigel Farage’s own prediction that he expects to be the UK’s next prime minister – has put the party and its leader in unfamiliar territory.Their policies and candidates are coming under greater scrutiny, and now, so is their funding. Continue reading...
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After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."
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The Reform UK leader tells the BBC it is "only fair" that it is the electorate who judges him.
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Reform keeps Tice on the bench, sending in attack specialist Yusuf in effort to take back control as byelection stunt unravelsYou can often tell when Reform is running scared and losing control of the political narrative, because that’s the time Richard Tice is put back in his box. Everyone but Dicky knows that Dicky is a halfwit. A man whose very life force is dependent on Nigel Farage’s continued existence. Without Nige there would be no Dicky. He is the tick with no autonomous nervous system.
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Last month, Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted of 18 counts of sex abuse against two women when they were children.
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Dan Thomas has given his backing to Nigel Farage, who triggered a by-election in Clacton on Tuesday.
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Exclusive: Andrew Bailey says no policy changes were made as a result of pressure from crypto tycoon-backed Reform leaderUK politics live – latest updatesThe governor of the Bank of England has broken his silence about the pressure Nigel Farage put on him to drop a cryptocurrency policy that could be costly for Reform UK’s billionaire backer, saying he is “able to spot” and resist lobbying.Andrew Bailey’s comments, in a letter seen by the Guardian, come as Farage’s decision not to disclose a £5m
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Ruth Ellis was hanged at London's Holloway Prison in 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover David Blakely.
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His byelection stunt shows he is clearly rattled by a perilous position. Wildcards rarely endure: his future is behind himBritain’s politics was never so weird. First, the people of Makerfield choose who should be the new prime minister. Now the people of Clacton are to confirm the man who is currently his most popular challenger. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is still running ahead of all other parties, and he is ahead of all other current leaders. It would be foolish to underestimate him.Farage is
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Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David BlakelyUK politics live – latest updatesRuth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, has been granted a conditional pardon in light of evidence that she was a victim of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour.Ellis was executed in 1955, aged 28, after she shot and killed her partner, David Blakely, who she met two years earlier while working in the nightclub she managed. Continue reading...
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The Reform UK leader faces a challenge from Count Binface as the main parties rule out standing in Clacton.
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Exclusive: victims commissioner and domestic abuse commissioner call for pause on planned releasesA failure to put in place safeguards ahead of a change to the law that will result in offenders being released early will leave abuse victims at risk, ministers have been warned.In a rare coordinated intervention, the victims commissioner and the domestic abuse commissioner have written separately to ministers urging them to immediately pause planned early releases of offenders convicted of crimes a
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There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies insteadThe new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme at no cost to public welfare: in fact, it would greatly reduce the harm we will suffer.Sorry, did I say £21.7bn? That’s the figure the government has been putting in its pr
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A legal case on behalf of some 700,000 people against the country’s biggest housebuilders could be a catalyst for much-needed industry reformEvery new government – at least for the past decade or so – has come into office with a promise to build more homes. New ministers don a hard hat, take a trip out to a recently completed development and smile indulgently as a bright young couple get given the keys to a smart-looking new-build. Then follows a speech about aspiration.The unspoken truth will b
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Campaigners fear report into disability benefits will seek to make cuts despite assurances that would not be its aimDisability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to findA government review of the personal independence payment (Pip) disability benefit, ordered after ministers were forced to abandon proposed £5bn cuts to the payment last year, is due to be published this week. This is what we know so far. Continue reading...
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In the fifth of a series on nationalisation, we look at utilities – including the cost of ending private ownershipWill Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state?Atlee: the postwar blueprint that inspires BurnhamHow council housebuilding is central to Burnham’s visionHow Burnham aims to shake up UK transportWhen the former Undertones frontman turned campaigner Feargal Sharkey backed Keir Starmer for prime minister in 2024, he hoped that the Labour leader would be the man to clean up Bri
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The party's deputy leader Richard Tice says he found out payments to his company had been flagged to the agency, after questions from the media.
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The government wants to abolish leasehold, but replacing it could prove far more complicated
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The Reform UK leader says he wants an "establishment versus the people by-election" but Labour calls it a "circus".