Author: Miles Donavan

‘We need MPs who vote the way they tell the public they think’ Labour MP Barry Gardiner has torn apart Reform UK’s stance on violence against women and girls, accusing Nigel Farage and his MPs of voting against legislation designed to keep women safe. This comes after Reform held a conference on women’s safety on Monday, and claims that women and girls’ safety is at risk due to immigration and crime committed by migrants.  In a head-to-head on GB News with Reform’s chair Zia Yusuf, Gardiner pointed out that Reform MPs’ voting records tell a different story. Gardiner said that…

Farage ‘pocketed £40,000 to deliver a keynote speech in September for Nomad Capitalist – an organisation that encourages people to flee the UK for global tax havens’. Yet another incident which reveals how Nigel Farage’s priorities don’t lie with advancing the interests of working communities, but rather wealthy elites! The Good Law Project has revealed how Farage, leader of Reform UK, is playing a double game when it comes to his claims that the UK is suffering from a brain drain because ‘entrepreneurs are allegedly fleeing from the UK’  due to tax laws. The organisation reports that Farage ‘pocketed £40,000…

Baroness Jacqui Smith condemned Runcorn and Helsby MP Sarah Pochin following her remarks… Baroness Jacqui Smith has condemned Reform’s bigotry and dog-whistle politics, slamming  the far-right party for fanning the flames of division. Baroness Jacqui Smith condemned Runcorn and Helsby MP Sarah Pochin following her remarks at a press conference, where she declared Britain is no longer a “safe haven” for women because of the threat posed by migrants from Muslim countries. Baroness Smith, a life peer who has been serving as Minister of State for Skills since 2024, told LBC: “Where I take issue with Reform is that whilst…

Brown says that Labour can resume its ‘historic role and take 500,000 children out of poverty without dropping manifesto commitments’. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the Labour government to hike gambling taxes in order to tackle child poverty. It comes amid predictions that child poverty in the UK is due to hit a record 4.8 million children by 2029. Writing in the Guardian, Brown said that Labour can resume its ‘historic role and take 500,000 children out of poverty without dropping manifesto commitments’. The former Labour leader has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes so…

The former Tory chancellor has now dabbled in holiday planning, arranging the trip for Trump’s VP The US Vice President JD Vance had his holiday to the Cotswolds planned by the former chancellor under David Cameron’s government, George Osborne.  As reported in The Financial Times, Osborne has arranged accommodation and meetings, and Cameron, who lives in Dean, where Vance has been staying, has also been on hand to provide advice on where to go. On the Political Currency podcast last year, Osborne said JD Vance was a friend of his. He said Vance “was an admirer of the Cameron government…

“I think unfortunately Mr Tice might well be trying to whip up an issue there.” In another demonstration of Reform’s inclination towards inciting unrest, the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice has said he would encourage men to form more patrol groups to protect women. At Reform’s conference on women’s safety on Monday, Reform MP for Runcorn and Helsby Sarah Pochin said it was “no surprise” British men are forming street patrol groups due to the threat posed to women’s safety by immigration. On Times Radio yesterday, Tice made alarming remarks endorsing more ‘vigilante’ patrol groups. In an open goal for…

‘You just didn’t seem to take much notice of it when the perpetrators were white.’ LBC presenter Ben Kentish has hit back at Nigel Farage and other senior Reform figures over claims that small boat arrivals are making women and girls unsafe. At the Women for Reform conference on Monday, Greater Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns said she no longer feels safe walking in the street.  Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran claimed “illegal migration is harming women and girls”, while Sarah Pochin MP argued the threat to women’s safety comes from “young, military-aged males” arriving by small boats. Nigel Farage…

It comes as former Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes so she can lift benefit restrictions at her autumn Budget. A clear majority of the British public support raising taxes on online gambling in order to fund efforts to tackle child poverty, a new poll has found. The poll, carried out by YouGov found that 70% of Britons would support raising taxes on online gambling, following Gordon Brown calling for an increase in the levies to fund efforts to tackle child poverty. Only 16% of those asked said they opposed the move. It…

The Green Party has said the Conservatives “are attempting to look just as cruel as Reform” Kemi Badenoch’s suggestion that asylum seekers should be housed in camps instead of hotels has been slammed by historian Dr Tessa Dunlop. The Tory leader made the comments yesterday while meeting locals in Epping, an area where there have recently been anti-migrant and far-right protests outside an asylum hotel. Dunlop condemned Badenoch’s choice of the word “camp”, recalling Britain’s role in establishing the world’s first concentration camps during the Boer War in South Africa in 1900. On the Jeremy Vine show, the historian said:…

‘What I’m not getting is what your actual policy ideas are’ Andrea Jenkyns failed to explain Reform’s asylum seeker policy and the link between migration and women’s safety in a car crash interview yesterday. Speaking to Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy after Reform’s conference on ‘women’s safety’, Jenkyns said Reform would “process” and deport asylum seekers living in Britain. Guru-Murthy pointed out that more than half of asylum seekers are granted leave to remain after being assessed.  Jenkyns said migrants would only be “processed” to determine their country of origin, but didn’t clarify if their claims would be assessed. In an…