Author: Miles Donavan

The polling also shows that Brexit is also much more likely to be considered a failure (38%) than a success (24%) by GE2024 Tory voters. In what marks a significant shift in opinion on Brexit among Conservative Party voters, a new poll has found that even Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged the UK economy. The poll, carried out by YouGov for campaign group Best for Britain, found that people who say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general election are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure for the UK (46%)…

Before the local elections, Reform circulated a leaflet attacking the CEO’s salary and comparing it to the PM’s pay Reform-led Derbyshire County Council has defended raising the salary of the council’s chief executive to over £200,000. Despite having previously criticised the ‘highly expensive’ post before the local elections, the council’s Reform leader, Alan Graves, has said he will keep the chief executive role following the current council boss’ resignation. Once appointed, the new chief executive will earn £181,018 per year as before, but will now also be able to earn a £20,000 annual performance related-bonus. In September 2021, then Conservative-led…

The ceasefire deal is being celebrated, but there are also concerns Israel could backtrack, and that it won’t end the decades-long occupation The news of a ceasfire deal in Gaza have been welcomed, but groups fear Israel could renege on the agreement and warn it won’t end the occupation of Palestine. After 734 days of Israel’s war in Palestine, it has been announced that a ceasefire will begin in Gaza within 24 hours after this evening’s Israeli cabinet meeting. This comes after Donald Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal. Israel confirmed that…

Prioritisation of corporate wealth and privatisation have threatened our heritage and eroded our culture far more than immigration ever has Chris Hinchliff is the Independent MP for North East Hertfordshire. Our country is on its knees. From institutions seemingly incapable of common sense, to public services facing a constant battle to stave off crisis, 14 years of Tory misrule have left us in a quagmire of dysfunction. Getting a doctor’s appointment is a mad scramble, our schools are crumbling, our parents can’t get the social care they deserve, trains are delayed, and our rivers are treated like open sewers. From…

The Reform deputy leader claimed UNRWA trucks were the ‘slowest’ to distribute food, but Israel banned the agency from making aid deliveries in March Richard Tice went on a trip to Israel at the end of September, where he met with Israeli ministers, amid the government’s ongoing siege in Gaza, which a UN inquiry recently declared is a genocide.  Following his trip, Tice wrote a piece in ‘Conservative Woman’, a right-wing blog that has published articles containing conspiratorial claims, falsely claiming that the famine in Gaza is “a blatant lie”. In his piece, he asked “Why is UNRWA the slowest…

The Reform leader has raked in a further £189,000 from side jobs since May this year Reform leader Nigel Farage has declared yet more income from jobs outside of being an MP, taking the total he has earned from ‘second jobs’ since the 2024 election to over £1.1 million.  Farage updated his register of interests this week — his first update since May — to include payments made to him several months ago. Parliamentary rules require MPs to register any changes to their financial interests within 28 days. It appears that several of Farage’s latest declarations were registered after the…

“Reform UK confirmed the posts have since been removed from its social media accounts.” Reform UK have once more landed themselves in trouble after being made to delete social media posts which used copyrighted images in material for a by-election. The Labour party sent a legal letter to Llŷr Powell, Reform UK’s by-election candidate, asking the party to cease using the copyrighted material for the upcoming Caerphilly by-election, the BBC reports. It adds: “On 7 October, Labour gave the party 24 hours to remove an image featuring the first minister and candidate Richard Tunnicliffe, warning that failure to do so…

“Enoch Powell did the same in the 1960s and it was a wholly destructive contribution to a civilised society.” In stark contrast to some in his party who have decided to engage in a race to the bottom with Reform UK, Tory peer Lord Heseltine has slammed Nigel Farage’s party as the ‘equivalent of 1930s right wing fascists’. In what amounts to some of the most scathing criticism of Reform from any Tory politician, Lord Heseltine urged his party to denounce the “populist extremism” of Nigel Farage. Speaking to a fringe meeting, Lord Heseltine added: “We will never, never, have…

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned that the Tories’ plan to leave the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) will undermine and undo workers’ rights. While Tory leader Kemi Badenoch announced this week that her party would take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights if it wins the next election, more voters prefer the UK to remain a member of the ECHR than those who wish…

Despite Reform’s “net stupid zero” line, more than half of their supporters back renewables More than half (53%) of Reform UK voters back their pensions being invested in renewable energy. This support for renewable energy is at odds with Reform’s pledge to scrap net zero and cut renewable subsidies if it wins power. Just under a third of Reform voters (32%) said they opposed this type of retirement investment, with only 14% saying they are strongly opposed. Research by the New Economics Foundation found Reform’s anti-environment pledge could cost 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion from the economy. The YouGov…