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Home secretary says Reform UK should back officers’ response to Epping asylum hotel unrest

Claims Essex police force bussed in antiracism activists have been denied but have spread on social media and rightwing news channels

With a huge profile and no one to appease, ‘Your Party’ starts on a better footing than new parties of the past

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COMMENT: Protesters outside a hotel housing asylum seekers have accused the local force of ‘bussing in’ anti-racism campaigners, a fallacy repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and which has taken hold on social media. But it’s not the police stirring up trouble, says Sean O’Grady

COMMENT: The prime minister has secured Britain’s biggest post-Brexit agreement – but it’s also one in the eye for Boris Johnson, who had promised to make it happen, but failed, says John Rentoul

Ex-Labour leader said it was ‘time for a new kind of political party’ to take on Starmer – but Labour grandee warns it will only help Tories and Reform

Tory leader says she can fulfil same role as Milei, a far-right leader promising big cuts to public spending

Former Labour leader said he was founding the new party, which is being referred to currently as Your Party

Does Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle mean the Reform-lite strategy is over? I don’t know and I’m not sure she does either, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

There have been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault.