Author: Miles Donavan

MemberPartyConstituencyVoteJack AbbottLabourIpswichAyeDiane AbbottLabourHackney North and Stoke NewingtonNoDebbie AbrahamsLabourOldham East and SaddleworthNoShockat AdamIndependentLeicester SouthNoZubir AhmedLabourGlasgow South WestNoLuke AkehurstLabourNorth DurhamAyeSadik Al-HassanLabourNorth SomersetAyeBayo AlabaLabourSouthend East and RochfordNoDan AldridgeLabourWeston-super-MareAyeHeidi AlexanderLabourSwindon SouthAyeDouglas AlexanderLabourLothian EastAyeRushanara AliLabourBethnal Green and StepneyNoTahir AliLabourBirmingham Hall Green and MoseleyNoRosena Allin-KhanLabourTootingNoJim AllisterTraditional Unionist VoiceNorth AntrimNoGideon AmosLiberal DemocratTaunton and WellingtonNoCallum AndersonLabourBuckingham and BletchleyAyeFleur AndersonLabourPutneyNoLee AndersonReform UKAshfieldNoStuart AndersonConservativeSouth ShropshireNoStuart AndrewConservativeDaventryNoTonia AntoniazziLabourGowerAyeSteff AquaroneLiberal DemocratNorth NorfolkAyeEdward ArgarConservativeMelton and SystonNoScott ArthurLabourEdinburgh South WestNoJess AsatoLabourLowestoftNoJames AsserLabourWest Ham and BecktonNoJas AthwalLabourIlford SouthAyeVictoria AtkinsConservativeLouth and HorncastleAyeCatherine AtkinsonLabourDerby NorthNoLewis AtkinsonLabourSunderland CentralAyeJosh BabarindeLiberal DemocratEastbourneAyeGareth BaconConservativeOrpingtonNoKemi BadenochConservativeNorth West EssexNoCalvin BaileyLabourLeyton and WansteadAyeOlivia BaileyLabourReading West and Mid BerkshireNoDavid BainesLabourSt Helens NorthNoAlex BakerLabourAldershotNoRichard BakerLabourGlenrothes and…

With the company’s future looking precarious, trade unions have issued a joint call calling for the company’s nationalisation. Trade unions, including the TUC, GMB, Unison and Unite have joined forces to issue a joint-call for Thames Water to be brought into full public ownership given the company’s troubles. The call comes after the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, yesterday said the government is stepping up its preparations for temporary nationalisation of Thames Water, indicating it will reject pleas from the company’s creditors for leniency from fines and penalties. The debt-ridden company, which serves about a quarter of the UK’s population, mostly…

A majority of the public now regret the vote to leave. A majority of the British public now support re-joining the EU, the latest opinion poll has found, ahead of next week marking nine years since the EU referendum took place. With economic uncertainty after Trump’s tariffs and trade wars and the economic hit from Brexit becoming ever clearer, a majority of the public now regret the vote to leave. The latest poll from YouGov has found that 56% of the public would support re-joining the EU, with just 28% favouring the status quo and only 18% wanting a further…

Will he be in Parliament to vote today or is it another at the Royal Ascot for Farage? Nigel Farage was a no-show in Parliament again yesterday.  Dressed in a tailcoat and top hat, the Reform UK leader was pictured smiling between three security guards as he attended the Royal Ascot. The privately educated former stockbroker took a day off doing the job he was elected to do, missing parliamentary business to do so.  But this isn’t the first time he’s been awol this week. On Tuesday, he missed multiple votes relating to abolishing the prosecution of women for terminating…

That Reform feels comfortable seeking advice on welfare from such a regime speaks volumes about the values the party holds. Far-right Reform UK have no issues with taking policy advice from authoritarian dictators like Viktor Orban and his regime, showing just how comfortable the party is in taking guidance from those who have no respect for human rights. The Times has reported that ‘on a recent trip to Budapest, Reform officials sought advice from aides to Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, on welfare policy, and are enthused by one of their suggestions: lifting the two-child benefit cap only for…

‘It is like he’s trying to distance himself from it, calling it an Efficiency Review instead of calling it what it is, ‘Doge’.’ The new Reform leader of North Northamptonshire council, Martin Griffiths, appears to have distanced himself from Reform’s Musk-style ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (Doge) in presenting a spending review to councillors.  Ben Williams, one of the Green Party councillors for Ise in North Northants, told Left Foot Forward that during the council’s first executive meeting on Tuesday this week, Griffiths had called the probe into council spending “an efficiency review, not Doge”. The executive meeting agenda states that…

It comes at a time when Farage’s approval rating has also fallen in the polls. After weeks of scandals and internal party strife, it seems as though Reform UK has had a reality check, with the far-right party’s support beginning to decline in the polls. Alongside councillors quitting just days after being elected, to the party’s spending commitments unravelling to its chair Zia Yusuf quitting only to return within 48 hours, chaos has become the defining feature of Farage and his party. And it would appear that the party’s popularity has begun to slide in the polls as a result.…

‘We don’t know what is happening to that money’ A new report has found that £2 million in donations given to candidates during the 2024 general election campaign “essentially disappeared” from public scrutiny.  The research by Lib Dem peer Mark Pack and academic Chris Butler reveals that 170 candidates received a total of almost £2 million more than they were allowed to spend on their campaigns. This raises questions about where the excess funds went after the campaign. The details of who donated the money are also difficult to find, particularly if the candidate did not become an MP. Only…

Nigel Farage’s party have also set made clear their intention cut back on expenditure in local authorities, setting up the DOGE unit, and Farage warning workers in a speech celebrating his party’s gains, to seek “alternative careers” if they worked on diversity or climate change initiatives. With workers worried about what Reform taking power means for them, the UK’s largest trade union saw its membership jump by 200% in the 10 local authorities won by Nigel Farage’s party at last month’s local elections. Sky News reports: “Unison figures show its membership increased by an average of 272% in the week…

Durham’s Reform councillors appeared sceptical about the benefits of renewable energy technologies… Reform councillors at Durham County Council have been questioned by opposition councillors over their stance on net zero targets and carbon emissions.  The day after the local elections, Nigel Farage made a speech to Durham County Council stating that anyone working on climate change or diversity initiatives should be “seeking alternative careers”. Since taking control of the council, Reform has renamed several key departments to remove references to climate change and diversity and inclusion. During Durham County Council’s cabinet meeting yesterday, Lib Dem councillor Mark Wilkes asked if…