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Reform UK loses another by-election called after councillor quit days into role

Despite the loss, Nigel Farage’s party was able to add three new councillors to its ranks in elections held in Kent and Essex

Evening Standard

Labour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projects

Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts

The Guardian - UK

Reform spent just £5.5m on the 2024 election, while Labour’s majority cost £30m – new data

The 2024 election was the most expensive in British political history, new figures confirm. Across parties, candidates and third parties, a whopping £94.5 million was spent. This compares with £72.6 million in 2019, which was a record high.

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Here's why Reform are issuing threats to firms over renewables

REFORM UK have issued a threat to energy firms bidding for renewables contracts, in its latest attempt to bring an end to net zero policies.

The National (Scotland)

Commons Leader rolls out Oasis puns to describe year since Labour’s election

Lucy Powell, who represents Manchester, also urged the Tories to Stop Crying Their Heart Out over their defeat last July.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Giving 16 year olds the vote? Where will this madness end - with babies at the ballot box?

No, you can't get married when you're sixteen. And even if you could, 'love' shouldn't bestow you with the franchise.

Evening Standard

Reform 'sabotaging' Scotland's energy industry, blasts John Swinney

REFORM UK’s threat to companies over clean energy contracts is “sabotaging” Scotland’s renewables industry, John Swinney has said.

The National (Scotland)

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Sixteen-year-olds to be allowed to vote as ministers set out reforms

Labour’s manifesto committed the party to lowering the voting age for parliamentary elections.

Evening Standard

Reform’s anti-renewables stance ‘putting jobs and energy bills at risk’

Industry says party’s threat to strip wind and solar subsidies if it enters power undermines national interest

The Guardian - UK

Reform tells energy firms it would scrap their clean power subsidies

Richard Tice has written to firms giving them ‘formal notice’ that Reform would tear up contracts designed to boost green energy investment.

Evening Standard

Reform gives power companies ‘formal notice’ it plans to scrap their clean energy subsidies

‘The political consensus that has sheltered your industry for nearly two decades is fracturing,’ MP says

The Independent UK

UK's Starmer Suspends Several Labour Rebels

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suspended several lawmakers on Wednesday as he tried to reassert his authority over his ruling Labour party following a rebellion over welfare reforms.

International Business Times

Reform-led Durham county council scraps climate emergency declaration

Durham is thought to be first UK local authority to rescind its statement, in a move condemned as a ‘very dark day’

The Guardian - UK

Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK?

The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voter, says author Samuel Earle

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The Independent UK

Voices: Kemi Badenoch is ‘wrong and strong’ – particularly when it comes to the two-child benefit cap

COMMENT: First it was maternity leave, then the gender pay gap – does the Leader of the Opposition actually care about women and families at all, asks Ava Vidal

The Independent UK

Voices: Is it time to give up on the NHS, our national religion?

COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul

The Guardian - UK

Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy

Growing number of campaigners urge government to ensure green investment is not done ‘on backs of the poor’

Al Jazeera

Corbyn, Sultana to form UK party: Flash in the pan or a ‘real alternative’?

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana plan to launch a new political party, hoping to unite Britain’s fractured left.

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The Guardian - UK

Is Reform UK a radical party or a home for ‘disgruntled former Conservatives’, asks James Cleverly

Ex-home secretary questions Farage party’s sales pitch and says councils could struggle if they mismanage key services

Evening Standard

Cleverly hits out at populist ‘fantasy’ amid London mayor bid speculation

The senior backbencher called for greater accountability in politics by reducing the ‘cloud of quangos’ in the system.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands offered UK asylum in secret scheme after personal data of Afghans who helped British forces leaked by mistake – as it happened

Dataset containing details of thousands of Afghans who applied for relocation to UK released ‘in error’ in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Reform-run councils once known for green policies expected to scrap climate pledges

Former Durham county council climate lead calls motion to rescind climate emergency declaration ‘reprehensible’

The Independent UK

Reform defector left Tories after mayoral candidate selection row involving Theresa May’s husband

Exclusive: A prospective Tory candidate for a mayoral race next year has switched to Reform after he was not added to a shortlist following an interview with Sir Philip May

The Guardian - UK

Reform council leader urges Labour to reconsider curbs on care worker visas

Kent’s Linden Kemkaran writes to government to express ‘grave concern’ about possible exodus of overseas care staff

The National (Scotland)

Former Reform MP worked for bank while 'claiming Covid loans', reports say

A FORMER Reform UK MP received a salary from an international bank during the pandemic while allegedly receiving thousands of pounds in Covid loans.

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