Welsh Labour have retracted social media posts after a formal legal letter was issued by Reform UK. The posts implied Reform’s Caerphilly candidate, Llŷr Powell, had links to Vladimir Putin – an accusation the party firmly denies. They also referred to bribes taken by a former Reform leader. Newyddion S4C has been told the letter...
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Getty Images Michelle Mone was made a Conservative peer in 2015 Baroness Michelle Mone says she has “no wish to return” to the House of Lords as a Tory peer. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Mone should be stripped of her peerage after a firm linked to her, PPE Medpro, was ordered to repay £122m...
Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali has defended his criticism of a Leeds-based Rabbi and Israeli Defence Force (IDF) reservist. Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch had accused Ali of playing a key role in the wave of threats that drove him from his home. Green leader Zach Polanski has been under pressure to take action but is...
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told the BBC she was “disappointed” pro-Palestinian protests went ahead on Thursday in the wake of the terror attack that killed two men outside a synagogue in Manchester. “I do think that carrying on in this way does feel un-British, it feels wrong,” she said of protests planned for this...
Kate WhannelPolitical reporter PA Media Newly-elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski will accuse Labour of being “handmaidens” to Reform UK when he addresses his party’s autumn conference later today. Polanski will say that immigration is not the “real threat” to high streets, homes and the NHS – claiming that comes from austerity and an economic...
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told the BBC she was “disappointed” pro-Palestinian protests went ahead on Thursday after the terror attack that killed two men outside a synagogue in Manchester. The home secretary also called for demonstrators to “step back” from plans to hold marches in coming days. “I do think that carrying on in...
Charlotte WrightPolitical Editor, South East PA Media Green Party leader Zack Polanski spoke to Charlotte Wright ahead of the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth The leader of the Green Party has dismissed being labelled as “radical”, despite saying he wants to legalise all drugs, as he looks to boost success in the South East. Speaking...
Getty Images Mone dismissed the court ruling as “an establishment win” for the government Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said Baroness Michelle Mone should be stripped of her peerage. A company linked to the Glaswegian entrepreneur, PPE Medro, has been ordered by the High Court to repay £122m to the UK government for breaching a...
A former Welsh Conservative MP says she has joined Reform UK and wants to stand for the party in next May’s Senedd election. Ex-Wrexham MP and former junior defence minister Sarah Atherton left the Tories earlier this year. She now wants to be a Reform candidate in the new Fflint Wrecsam constituency having “put her...