When far-right activists once again halted a Swale council meeting last week, the most striking development did not come from the public gallery but from Reform councillors who later appeared determined to excuse, and even endorse, the disruption. And Reform’s rhetoric is earning them the backing of the extremists who have now twice caused meetings […]
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Reform welcomes endorsement from thousand-men-a-day sex worker
The Guardian’s John Crace described it as a “black swan event”. Keir Starmer launched a joke at Prime Minister’s Questions and, improbable though this sounds, it actually landed. MPs from every party except Reform UK were, if not quite rolling in the aisles, audibly gleeful. The cause of the chortles (and even a few guffaws) […]
Local council chaos and scandal threaten Reform’s national ambitions
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK stormed into local government in May 2025, winning hundreds of seats across England and seizing control of county councils once thought impregnable. It was hailed as a political earthquake, a populist breakthrough that would reshape local democracy. We have already taken a close look at what happened in Kent where, as […]
The bells ring out as Reform’s Xmas party is cancelled
’Tis the season to be jolly – unless you’re Reform UK’s Deputy leader Richard Tice, who recently discovered that Croydon’s Grand Sapphire Hotel has more spine than his party’s vetting committee. The venue cancelled Reform’s Christmas knees‑up after locals pointed out that “festive cheer” doesn’t usually involve Lee Anderson shouting about migrants over turkey and […]
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking Russian bribes
A former Brexit Party MEP, whose name features in messages between the convicted former Welsh Reform Party leader Nathan Gill and his Russian handler, has denied taking bribes David Coburn, the former UKIP Party leader in Scotland and later a Brexit Party MEP, was approached at his French chateau by the BBC and asked about […]
Day of reckoning for Reform UK’s Russian agent
Disgraced former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill was today sentenced at the Old Bailey to ten and a half years years in prison, after admitting eight counts of bribery linked to a covert Russian influence operation inside the European Parliament. Once viewed as a rising figure on the British populist right, Gill pleaded guilty […]