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...
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...
PA Media Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s publicly-funded security detail has been cut by 75%, the party’s head of policy has claimed. Zia Yusuf said the decision had been taken two weeks ago by parliamentary officials for “inexplicable reasons”, with party donors stepping in to “ensure that his security is shored up”. The Commons authorities...
The government should fit solar panels to “pensioner bungalows” as part of a strategy to combat Reform UK, a Labour MP has said. Jo White, the MP for Bassetlaw, said voters needed to see a “tangible benefit” from Labour’s climate policies – and she called for grants for heat pumps and solar panels to be...
It is just 14 months since the general election. Not yet 500 days. Labour has a working majority of 161. But here on the banks of the Mersey, it really doesn’t feel like that. I am reminded of Conservative conferences of old, where a circus would accompany Boris Johnson from the railway station to each...
Getty Images Eluned Morgan warns voters not to “gamble” on Reform’s “divisive noise” or Plaid’s “fantasy politics” Labour is facing a “hell of a fight” against the “divisive nationalism” of Plaid Cymru and Reform, Wales’ first minister has told the party’s Autumn conference. Eluned Morgan accused her political opponents in the May Senedd election of...
Andy Burnham has warned against “underestimating the peril the party is in” at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference. The mayor of Greater Manchester continued his criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership at events at the Liverpool conference, telling audiences he would not shy away from debate on Labour’s future. Despite a backlash...
Jennifer McKiernanPolitical reporter Starmer: Reform policy is ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’ Sir Keir Starmer has labelled Reform UK’s policy of scrapping indefinite leave to remain as “racist” and “immoral”. The policy, which could effectively lead to hundreds of thousands of people who are here legally being deported from the UK, was announced by party leader Nigel...
The prime minister has warned Reform UK “will tear this country apart” ahead of the Labour party conference. Arriving in Liverpool on Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said Reform’s plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) for legal migrants was one of “the most shocking things” Nigel Farage’s party had said. Sir Keir said the...
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to making statements in favour of Russia while being an elected member of the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, from Llangefni on Anglesey, admitted eight counts of bribery but denied one charge of conspiracy to commit bribery. It was alleged...