Trump ally Nigel Farage makes gains in UK local elections
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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The British are a famously phlegmatic nation, not given to revolutionary fervor or radical politics. The UK is the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world and has had a remarkably stable ...
Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform U.K. makes gains, and a new era of multiparty politics takes shape.
The 2026 elections are shaping up to be a seismic moment for politics in the UK. Across England’s local elections, Labour is facing up to a devastating result while Reform UK has picked up hundreds of seats. Throughout the day as results come in from across England, Scotland and Wales, our panel is providing context, analysis and expert insights.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The UK may have chosen not to join the American-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, but it has not been able to escape the political fallout. The question of whether to intervene has proven agonizing for ...
Reform U.K., the rising right-wing populist political party threatening to eclipse the Conservatives in British politics, has just scored its biggest defection yet. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman appeared alongside Reform leader Nigel Farage at a ...
Nigel Farage could barely contain his glee on Monday when he unveiled former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi as his latest high-profile recruit to Reform UK. Things were not always so collegiate between the two men. Farage once described Zahawi as having no ...
Nadhim Zahawi, who was briefly chancellor under Boris Johnson, has defected to Reform UK despite previously criticizing its leader Nigel Farage, on Nov. 5, 2021. (Dean Calma / Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) MANCHESTER, England (CN) — A former ...
The Regional Manager of Reform UK in Cumbria has said local election results across the country represent a ‘seismic political shift’.