Author: Miles Donavan

“I am making the jump to join them today, I urge others to do so too.” The former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has announced he has joined the Green Party. Russell-Moyle served as the MP for Brighton Kemptown from 2017-2024. Lloyd Russell Moyle was suspended from the Labour Party in advance of the 2024 general election following a complaint about his behaviour eight years prior. As a result, he was not permitted to stand for Labour in that election. At the time, Russell-Moyle described the complaint as ‘vexatious and politically motivated’. Early in 2025, it was revealed that the Labour…

Roz Savage MP argues that our resurgence will come from strong, empowered, connected communities For decades, politicians of all parties have promised to push power out of Westminster and closer to the people. Yet the UK remains one of the most centralised democracies in the developed world. Local government raises just 5 per cent of all tax revenue, compared with an OECD average of around 30 percent. Decisions that shape our daily lives – housing, transport, planning, energy, health, skills and more – are still made by ministers and civil servants who may never have set foot in the communities…

Farage has yet to publicly address the allegations The prime minister and multiple cabinet ministers, have described the new allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his school days as “repulsive” and are calling on the Reform leader to address the claims. The Guardian said that in legal letters, Farage emphatically denied saying anything racist or antisemitic when he was a teenager, however he has yet to publicly address the allegations.  Keir Starmer told journalists that Farage “needs to explain the comments, or alleged comments that were made, and he needs to do that as soon as possible”.  On Tuesday,…

Once again it shows how Reform are not fit for office. Yet another Reform UK politician has been suspended, as Nigel Farage’s party continues to make the headlines for all the wrong reasons. This time, Reform’s only member of the Senedd has been suspended from the Welsh Parliament for using a racial slur in a Whatsapp group. Laura Anne Jones used an offensive Chinese slur in a discussion about the threat of the Chinese government utilising TikTok for espionage. Yesterday evening, the Welsh parliament voted for Jones, who defected from the Tories to Reform in the summer, to be suspended…

“Our international colleagues deserve clarity over their futures, not to be used as political footballs by politicians” The General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Professor Nicola Ranger, has called Labour’s plans to make it harder for migrants to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain “immoral” and “a betrayal” of international NHS staff. In May, Labour announced plans to extend the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain from five to ten years. The government has also said that claiming benefits will affect applicants’ eligibility. The changes appear to be an attempt to address concerns about immigration stirred by…

Members of the group talked about stockpiling weapons to carry out domestic terrorism Another Reform councillor has been suspended by the party, this time for belonging to a far-right WhatsApp group.  Reform has suspended Lancashire County councillor Tom Pickup, and will sit as an independent, pending an investigation. In the group, members made Islamophobic statements and talked about stockpiling weapons including crossbows and petrol bombs to carry out domestic terrorism. The group is understood to have been set up by far-right rapper Missus Kent, whose real name is Jodie Goodban or Scott (married name). Scott performed at Robinson’s anti-immigration Unite…

‘It’s kind of medieval’ President Trump, who has a history of making obscene and bigoted remarks, has once more caused widespread outrage after calling a female reporter ‘piggy’. The Republican made the comments during a clash with reporter Catherine Lucey, onboard Air Force One on Friday, after she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and the possibility of the House voting to release all of the files related to his case. Trump claimed he had no idea what Epstein was talking about when he wrote that the now-president knew about “the girls,” before saying he had a “very bad…

Alan Mendoza hasn’t always had good things to say about Nigel Farage Reform’s newest Tory defector, Alan Mendoza, previously said that Nigel Farage’s leadership of UKIP reminded him of a “tinpot dictatorship”.  Mendoza, a founder and the current executive director of right-wing foreign policy and security think tank Henry Jackson Society, has now been appointed Reform’s chief advisor on global affairs. He will now sit as a Reform councillor on Westminster Council, alongside Laila Cunningham, who defected to the party in June. Yesterday, Mendoza announced: “Some personal news: I have taken the difficult decision today to resign from the Conservative…

“I’d inform her that the Budget is actually next week. We’ve only got one week to go.” Only last week the right-wing press were cheering on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after claiming that she was ‘beginning to find her feet at PMQs’, and yet Badenoch endured yet another humiliating appearance in the Commons today after making a major gaffe. Badenoch attempted to embarrass the Labour government over an alleged ‘U-turn’ over increasing income tax in the budget set to be delivered next week. Government sources said that the Chancellor decided against raising income tax rates at the Budget after receiving…

A sloppy edit turns Trump into a crusader against bias, stepping in to protect us from a broadcasting corporation already leaning his way  The debate over the BBC’s misleading edit of Donald Trump’s Capitol Hill speech is quite a muddle. Trump is performatively posturing with a line about how the BBC has deeply wounded his reputation by wilfully presenting him as a ‘radical, aggressively stirring violence at the White House, when in fact he’s simply a benign, peace-loving moderate’.  Tangled in the rigging  The muddle begins with Trump effectively accusing the BBC of rigging his speech. However, the speech was…