Author: Miles Donavan

Whatever then happened to Gullis’ principles. A clip has resurfaced and is doing the rounds online of former Tory deputy chairman Jonathan Gullis insisting he would never defect to Reform UK, after the former MP did exactly that and joined Nigel Farage’s party. Gullis is among three ex-Tory MPs to have joined Reform in recent days, which also included Chris Green, former Bolton West MP, and Lia Nici, who represented Great Grimsby. Gullis says that he has left the Conservative Party because he believes it has “lost touch with the people it was meant to serve”. However, in what will…

“An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure.” Keir Starmer made a jibe about Tory defections to Reform and the reports of a Reform-Tory election pact at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Starmer’s joke came in response to Tory MP George Freeman, who said he had recently been the target of an AI deepfake video announcing his defection to Reform.  The MP for Mid Norfolk said: “As colleagues will know that’s about as likely as Reform moving from pub populism to a coherent programme for government.” Freeman said he was “delighted to reassure my chief whip that I am and always…

The removal of the cap will benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year and reduce child poverty by 450,000, according to the OBR. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has slammed the Conservative Party for pushing lies and false narratives over the lifting of the two-child cap, after the Tories opposed scrapping the measure which will left nearly half a million children out of poverty. During the budget last week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the government would be lifting the two child cap which pushed hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. The removal of the cap…

The hotel has cancelled the booking after people complained about the venue hosting “racist cronies” Reform UK has had the venue for a London Christmas dinner fundraiser cancelled just days before the event was due to take place. Members of the local community in Croydon, London protested against the Grand Sapphire Hotel hosting the event tomorrow (Thursday 4 December), leading to its cancellation yesterday. Last week, Inside Croydon reported that members of the Croydon Muslim community were “deeply offended” that the hotel, which is owned by Pakistani-born millionaire Suleman Raza, would host a Reform UK event. In one post on…

Farage claims he wouldn’t work with the Tories, but 21 former Tory MPs have joined his party… Nigel Farage has been mocked over the irony of him calling claims that he would work with the Tories “ludicrous”. In reality, with many ex-Tory members flocking to Farage’s party, Reform is increasingly being called the “Tory Party 2.0”. On X last night, Farage wrote: “A false story in the FT tonight claims Reform would do a deal with the Tories. “After 14 years of dishonesty and lies they should never be forgiven. The idea I’d work with them is ludicrous.” He added:…

Farage claims he wouldn’t work with the Tories, but 21 former Tory MPs have joined his party… Nigel Farage has been mocked over the irony of him calling claims that he would work with the Tories “ludicrous”. In reality, with many ex-Tory members flocking to Farage’s party, Reform is increasingly being called the “Tory Party 2.0”. On X last night, Farage wrote: “A false story in the FT tonight claims Reform would do a deal with the Tories. “After 14 years of dishonesty and lies they should never be forgiven. The idea I’d work with them is ludicrous.” He added:…

One donor said the Reform leader described a Tory-Reform pact as “inevitable” Nigel Farage has told donors he expects to do a deal between his party and the Tories before the next general election. One donor told the Financial Times that either a deal or a merger with the Tories would be done on Farage’s terms, in part because he felt betrayed after the pact he tried to make with the Tories at the 2019 election. One of the individuals who spoke to the FT said that Farage had described a pact or merger as “inevitable” but said it would…

A new report also found that UK business investment is 12 to 18 per cent lower than it would have been if Britain had stayed in the EU. The penny has finally dropped at the Telegraph, after the newspaper was forced to admit that Brexit has been an ‘unmitigated economic disaster’. Amid mounting evidence of the economic harm done by Brexit, with one recent study highlighting how it had reduced GDP by as much as 8%, a comment piece in the right-wing paper which campaigned to leave the EU, lamented the ‘disastrous economic consequences’ of Brexit and its failure to…

Why doesn’t Farage launch an investigation into his party on Russian links? Voters are more likely to say that Reform UK is ‘pro-Russia’ than anti-Russia, a new poll has revealed in a fresh blow to Nigel Farage. The poll, carried out by YouGov, found that 28% of respondents believe Reform is pro-Russia compared to 13% who say it is anti-Russia. The poll findings come at a time when Reform is under growing scrutiny over its links to Russia after the party’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for accepting bribes…

Labour continues to seek closer ties with the EU and is aiming to make a deal to rejoin the Erasmus scheme within weeks The prime minister Keir Starmer slammed the “wild promises” made about Brexit that have not been fulfilled during his annual foreign policy speech at the Guildhall yesterday. In his speech, Starmer said that the Brexit vote was a “fair, democratic expression”, but said that the way that the UK’s departure from the EU was sold and delivered was “simply wrong”.  He said: “Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled. We are still dealing…