Author: Miles Donavan

“We know what his real priorities are…Reform don’t care about working class kids or their families.” Nigel Farage is facing growing criticism after saying he will oppose the Labour government’s decision to lift the two child benefit cap, which will see hundreds of thousands of children across the country lifted out of poverty. During the last budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the removal of the cap which she said would benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year and reduce child poverty by 450,000, according to the OBR. The two-child benefit cap was introduced by Osborne as Conservative…

It shouldn’t surprise us that Reform aren’t concerned with renter’s rights, given that the party’s leader Farage opposed the Renters’ Rights Bill. A Reform UK councillor has been criticised for the ‘heartless’ and ‘ruthless’ manner in which he evicted a mother and her sons from one of the properties he owned, after her mental health deteriorated and she fell into rent arrears. David McLennan, who owned seventeen properties, was described as being only motivated by money when he took the decision to turf the family out of their home. McLennan became Reform’s first elected councillor in Scotland after he won…

Farage called the racial slur Chris Parry made about the deputy prime minister “over the top” Nigel Farage has finally said that Chris Parry, Reform’s mayoral candidate for Hampshire and the Solent, should apologise for saying David Lammy should “go home” to the Caribbean. In February, he claimed London-born Lammy’s “loyalties” lie in the Caribbean, where his parents emigrated from.  Last month, it emerged that the former Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy had questioned the loyalty of at least eight other politicians who are not white. Parry made comments questioning the loyalties of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, London Mayor…

The Reform leader was gifted accommodation and passes to attend the Formula 1 in December Nigel Farage accepted a £10,000 gift from an autocratic petrostate, the United Arab Emirates, the latest update to his register of Members’ interests shows.  The entry states that Farage accepted £10,000 from the Government of Abu Dhabi, run by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to attend the Formula 1 and “meetings” in December. The record reveals that the Reform leader accepted accommodation and a VIP “paddock” pass worth £4,500 to attend the race-car competition in early December. Farage also had meetings with senior Emirati…

The public know that Farage and Reform, who openly call for a return to austerity and privatising vital services, are not the answer on the cost of living. In a boost to the Labour government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, more Britons say they believe that a Labour government would be better on tackling the cost of living than Reform UK. The findings were made during a poll carried out by YouGov, which asked the public which government they think would be better for tackling the cost of living. Around 35% of those asked said they believed a Labour government…

That a journalist was shouted down with shouts of ‘boring’ over such serious allegations of racism and antisemitism shows you how disgraceful Reform UK are. An ITV journalist was shouted down at a Reform UK press briefing earlier today, when he questioned Nigel Farage about his alleged racist and antisemitic abuse against fellow pupils at Dulwich College. Over recent weeks, Nigel Farage has been hit with allegations of racism and antisemitism dating back to his time as a student at Dulwich College in the 1970s and 80s. According to The Guardian, one of Farage’s classmates, the Bafta-winning director Peter Ettedgui,…

Reform had promised to scrap the two-child benefit limit, but Farage says his party will now vote against lifting it Reform UK has made a major U-turn on its policy on the two-child benefit limit, which Labour has announced it will scrap.  Despite the party committing to abolishing the policy, Nigel Farage told journalists that Reform’s five MPs will now vote against Labour’s bill to lift the limit. The two-child limit prevents families from claiming Universal Credit and housing benefit for more than two children. It is estimated that lifting the limit, which was introduced by the Tories in 2017,…

“There’s been no evidence of Doge anywhere in sight.” Leader of the Labour group in West Northamptonshire, councillor Sally Keeble, has said that Reform’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) initiative “seems to have been a complete non-event”. “Despite all the noise, nothing has happened,” she told Left Foot Forward. She added “It’s been a complete damp squib.” Keeble said that Reform claimed in July that they had saved almost £1 million over three years on a Microsoft software contract. However, she said “It seemed that all the preparatory work for that had been done by the Conservatives.” The Labour councillor…

What a hypocrite… Reform UK’s hypocrisy knows no bounds, with one of its MPs, Lee Anderson, accepting hundreds of pounds worth of freebie football tickets despite criticising others for doing the same. According to Anderson’s register of interests, the MP for Ashfield received £750 worth of hospitality from Nottingham Forest in November, it has been revealed by anti-Reform campaign group Reform exposed. The tickets were given out by Nottingham Forest for their UEFA Europa League match against Malmo. Hospitality tickets for the club include match tickets with premium seating, and complimentary drinks. While Anderson had no problem accepting the freebies,…

“What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling, and unacceptable in decent society.” Elon Musk’s X has been slapped down by the technology secretary Liz Kendall, after thousands of “deepfakes” images sexualising women and children appeared on the platform over the new year period. Grok AI, Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, is still being used to digitally undress and produce degrading images, predominantly of women and minors.  This is despite the social media platform having pledged to suspend users who generate them. Yesterday, Kendall warned the world’s richest man that “the UK will not tolerate the…