Author: Miles Donavan

“It was a really kind of thin-skinned, petulant schoolboy response” Former SNP MP Hannah Kennedy-Bardell tore into Nigel Farage’s “petulant” reaction to a BBC journalist quizzing him over allegations of racism from his school days yesterday. Appearing on Sky News’ Politics Hub, Kennedy-Bardell denied Reform activist Tim Montgomerie’s claim that the BBC questioning Farage about the allegations was evidence of a “bias issue”.  The former SNP MP for Livingston said Farage had been called out for “pretty horrific” stuff and said there was a bit of “just deserts” to it. “He’s probably feeling just a dash of what the person…

The donation made by Claudia Harmsworth has led to some speculation as to who the Daily Mail could back at the next election, It’s been revealed that the wife of the owner of the Daily Mail made a £50,000 donation to Reform UK earlier this year. According to the latest details released by the Electoral Commission, Claudia Harmsworth donated the funds to Nigel Farage’s party on September 30. Harmsworth is the wife of Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, i and Metro. It comes as it was also revealed that Reform had secured the largest ever single donation by…

Ian Cooper is being probed by the party over racist social media posts Nigel Farage has said that his party’s racism probe into Ian Cooper, the Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, “doesn’t look very good”. Farage said that Reform is “going through due process” after it emerged that Cooper had been given a “top fan” badge for his frequent interactions with white supremacist Facebook page The European Race. Cooper has also made offensive posts on social media directed at the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, David Lammy, presenter Sangita Myska and lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu.  Asked by a journalist at…

The Reform leader lost his cool when questioned over the racism allegations from his school days Nigel Farage told a BBC journalist he would not speak to them until the broadcaster issued an apology, during a fiery press conference yesterday. The Reform leader became visibly irritated at journalists as he was questioned about the allegations of racism from his school days. A BBC journalist put to Farage comments made earlier by Reform deputy leader Richard Tice in an interview with the Today programme’s Emma Barnett.  Tice had dismissed the allegations as “made-up twaddle”.  The journalist pointed out that Farage himself…

“We do not need people like him in British politics.” Reform’s Zia Yusuf was branded ‘typically rude’ during his appearance on BBC Question Time yesterday, as he made a needless dig at an audience member. An audience member simply sought clarification on Reform’s immigration policies, asking whether it meant for example if a care worker who had worked in the country for 40 years would be sent back to ‘where they came from’ when they reached 65. Yusuf rudely responded: “So if you had paid attention to what we were announcing, you would not have that view.” At this point,…

Electoral Commission records show that on the 2nd September 2025 Reform UK accepted the donation. While much has been made today of Reform UK receiving the largest ever single donation by a living person to a British political party, we also should not let it go unmentioned that the party has also received thousands of pounds from Heathrow, as it campaigns against net zero targets. Latest Electoral Commission records show that Reform has received a record £9m donation from cryptocurrency investor and aviation entrepreneur Christopher Harborne. Reform leader Nigel Farage has been a supporter of cryptocurrency, announcing in May that…

Tice’s remarks have been called “utterly deplorable” Reform’s deputy leader has been roundly condemned for describing the racism allegations against Nigel Farage from his school days as “all made-up twaddle”. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Emma Barnett, Tice dismissed the allegations that Farage had joked about gassing Jewish people or told a Jewish classmate, Peter Ettedgui, that “Hitler was right”. Barnett noted that, as a prefect, Farage is also alleged to have put a pupil in detention because of the colour of their skin. In addition, the Reform leader allegedly called students from ethnic minority backgrounds the P-word…

Ministers are working to ban political donations made with cryptocurrency, believing that such donations pose a risk to the integrity of the electoral system, not least because the source can be hard to verify. Voters are supportive of a ban on donations to political parties using cryptocurrencies, a new poll has found in a blow to Nigel Farage. Ministers are working to ban political donations made with cryptocurrency, believing that such donations pose a risk to the integrity of the electoral system, not least because the source can be hard to verify. However, it is unlikely any such ban will…

Reform UK’s biggest donors this quarter include Christopher Harborne, the party’s own chief fundraiser, and a company twice threatened with strike-off Reform UK received £10.5 million in donations between July and September this year, far outstripping any other political party. Nigel Farage’s party raised more than four times Labour’s £2.5 million. The Conservatives recorded £7 million in donations, while the Liberal Democrats reported £2.2 million, roughly half of which came from public funding. Only a very small proportion of Reform’s donations came from public funds (£227,000). The majority came from big private donations. Who are Reform’s biggest donors this quarter?…

The leader of Staffordshire County Council is a ‘top contributor’ on a white supremacist Facebook page The Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, Ian Cooper, has been accused of racism and supporting white supremacist content on social media. Cooper, who was a parliamentary candidate for Nigel Farage’s party in a 2023 by-election in Tamworth, has a “top fan” badge for Facebook page The European Race. The page posts about “duplicating white genes” and how “the white race is god’s chosen”.  A “top fan” badge is given to users who are considered among the page’s most “active and engaged” supporters.  Reform…