Kemi Badenoch warns Tory critics that replacing her as leader won't work as she defends her 'slow and steady' plan - but admits Nigel Farage could be PM

found 2025 › May › 04 (Sun) @ 10:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Tories lost more than 600 councillors and all 15 of the councils they controlled going into Thursday's contest - among the worst results in the party's history.

Labour rebels tell PM: change or die - as voters tell MoS poll they expect Farage to be the next Prime Minister

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 22:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Speaking in the wake of Nigel Farage's 'Reform‑quake', Dan Carden, the MP for Liverpool Walton, said: 'People have had enough.'

Trade union advises staff at newly christened Reform UK councils to sign up after jubilant Nigel Farage promised Trump-esque cuts to jobs

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 22:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Mr Farage warned council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to seek 'alternative careers' after his party took control of Durham council.

'Britain wants Reform!': Nigel Farage hails 'unprecedented' local election results and says his councils will resist taking asylum seekers

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 16:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Nigel Farage has declared 'Britain wants Reform' as he boasts of the party's 'unprecedented' results in yesterday's local elections, sparking a political earthquake for Labour and the Conservatives.

This week proves Nigel Farage's PM ambition is not a wild notion

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 16:35 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

The next General Election is miles away and parties can surge and sink, but this week's results show Farage has changed the race, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

Badenoch apologises for local election results as Reform warned there are ‘no simple answers’ – UK politics live

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 08:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’

‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?

In a week of difficult lo…

An unwelcome surge of rightwing populism in Britain

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK threatens the Labour-Conservative duopoly

Downing Street ramps up efforts to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels after Reform surge in local elections

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 01:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Senior Labour politicians believe the approach is having a negative effect on the government's popularity and is playing directly into Nigel Farage's hands.

Tory wipeout as Conservatives lose every single council and Labour is decimated... while Nigel Farage's Reform bags local election landslide

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 21:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Conservative Party has lost every council it was defending in the elections after it found itself squeezed between Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.

Britain’s battered Tories ask if they still have further to fall

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from Politico EU › Politico EU

As Nigel Farage surges, the question for Conservatives is a simple, yet existential, one. Could it get worse?