David Deans Political reporter, BBC Wales News Getty Images Sir Keir Starmer spoke at Welsh Labour’s conference on Saturday Nigel Farage’s plans for steel in Wales could result in the cancelling of 5,000 jobs, the prime minister has claimed. Sir Keir Starmer used his speech at the Welsh Labour conference on Saturday to attack the...
Reform UK has announced it would give non-doms the chance to avoid many UK taxes by paying a £250,000 fee, with the proceeds going to people on the lowest incomes. Non-domiciles (or non-doms) live in the UK but have a permanent home overseas for tax purposes. Under Reform’s plan, non-doms would pay the fee for...
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC In the first week of 2025, Nigel Farage told me his ultimate goal was to become prime minister. It stuck in my mind that he chose to add: “I’m not joking.” Nobody in the two traditional main parties finds his stunning success this week funny. “Farage is...
EPA Nigel Farage has hailed Reform UK’s gains in Thursday’s elections as “unprecedented” and “the end of two-party politics”. The party has taken control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election now counting has been completed. Many of these wins...
Reform UK’s candidate to be the first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, has appeared to contradict her party’s leader Nigel Farage over their outlook on children with special educational needs, or SEND. Dame Andrea, a former Conservative minister, has spoken publicly about both her and her young son having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
Mr Daniel was hit by Akins, who was driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson. Akins had pulled out into the path of Mr Daniel, who had been cycling home from work. In a victim impact statement, Mr Daniel’s wife, Savanna, said his death had been “like hell and a nightmare I’m not waking...
As Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn prepare for their fight on Saturday, BBC Sport looks back to 1990 when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr fought for the WBO middleweight title. READ MORE: Inside 934 days of Eubank v Benn carnage Pictures courtesy of DAZN. Available to UK users only. Read full article at...
An Afghan man accused of threatening to kill Nigel Farage while he travelled to the UK has appeared in court. Fayaz Khan, 25, is alleged to have posted a video on TikTok in October, where he made a gun gesture and told the Reform party leader he was going to “pop pop”, Westminster Magistrates’ Court...
A row has erupted between Nigel Farage and Britain’s biggest teaching union after it branded Reform UK a “racist and far-right” party. National Education Union (NEU) members at their annual conference called for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates. The NEU’s general secretary, Daniel Kebede, claimed there were “an awful...
Paul Seddon Political reporter PA Media Nigel Farage has dismissed a suggestion from Kemi Badenoch that Reform UK and Tory councillors could enter into coalitions after next month’s local elections. Speaking earlier, Tory leader Badenoch told the BBC her party’s local leaders would be free to share power with Reform if it was required to...
Alex Forsyth Political correspondent Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Media Men are prepared to sacrifice family lives for successful careers in a way many women aren’t, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said. Speaking at an event in Parliament, Farage argued people should judged on merit in the workplace, not on certain characteristics. When asked...