Author: Miles Donavan

Reform’s mask slips again… Reform’s mask just keeps slipping. It’s been revealed that the party’s new director and secretary, Charlton Edwards, has a history of promoting conspiracy theory and far right content online. Despite Farage’s insistence that Reform is now ‘professionalising’ its operations and carrying out strict due diligence on party members, its staff and candidates continue to be found to have posted bigoted, hateful and conspiratorial content. In the latest example, Hope not Hate, the anti-extremist campaign group, reveals that after Zia Yusuf sensationally quit as party chairman, he was removed as director of Reform UK Party Limited, with…

A PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone supplied faulty surgical gowns The High Court has heard that a PPE firm linked to Conservative peer and millionaire entrepreneur Michelle Mone should pay back £122 million for breaching a government covid contract. During the pandemic, PPE Medpro, a company owned by Mone’s husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, was awarded £200 million in government contracts to supply personal protective equipment (PPE). For one contract, PPE Medpro supplied 25 million surgical gowns.  The Department for Health and Social (DHSC) is suing PPE Medpro, which is owned by Mone’s husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, for…

The case was taken on by GMB on behalf of thousands of members who lost their job when the discount store went into administration. The fight for better rights and conditions for workers against exploitative employers is continuing, with the GMB union securing a massive payout for former Wilko workers, after the company failed to properly consult with them before going bust. The GMB says that almost 10,000 former Wilko workers will share a pay out of £2 million after it won a legal case. A judgement handed down by the Employment Tribunal this week ruled that Wilko had failed…

The former Reform UK chair quit the party a week ago saying working to get them elected was no longer “a good use of my time” Just days after quitting and rejoining the right-wing party, Zia Yusuf has signalled that he plans to stand as an MP in the next by-election where Reform UK has a chance of winning. The situation was very different a week ago. Last Thursday, Yusuf resigned from his role as chair of Reform UK, stating that he no longer thought working to get Reform elected was a “good use of my time”.  This came after…

“You’re talking to the grandchild of an Irish migrant, we built the country.” John McDonnell schooled Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice on his false claim that refugees are “economic migrants”. McDonnell praised Labour for speeding up the processing of asylum claims, stating that it gives refugees the opportunity to work and contribute.  At the Spending Review yesterday, the chancellor Rachel Reeves said that Labour will end the use of asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. Commenting on refugees’ many skills, McDonnell said: “What I’m amazed at is the range of skills, the range of skills is unbelievable…

“His party has been in parliament for less than a year and yet already they have racked up £80bn of unfunded commitments. They are simply not serious.” Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being praised for her brutal takedown of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the Commons yesterday, as she set out her Spending Review, announcing large scale infrastructure spending and record investment in the NHS in a bid to renew Britain. The Chancellor unveiled a raft of investment measures to rebuild Britain after more than 14 years of Tory austerity, including big rises for NHS, housing and defence. That included…

Badenoch has drawn widespread criticism for her performances at the despatch box, repeatedly struggling to make an impact while ignoring Starmer’s answers to questions she’d already asked. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is being brutally mocked after yet another disastrous performance at Prime Minister’s Questions, in which she claimed she ‘gets better every week’. During a heated clash with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the winter fuel allowance and taxes, Badenoch told the Commons: “I get better every week, he gets worse”. Her claim prompted laughter across the Commons, before Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to intervene to restore order. He…

Farage chooses to ignore that the rich not paying their fair share of tax. So much for being a ‘man of the people’. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has admitted he doesn’t want to tax the rich anymore, as he sets out further details of his party’s policy platform. Answering a question from journalist Ava Santina from PoliticsJOE at a press conference, Farage said he didn’t want to raise corporation tax or taxes on wealthy people, despite trying to portray himself as being concerned with the interests of working people. Asked about Arron Banks, a major Reform UK donor and…

The facts show that there is no mass exodus of millionaires from the UK. Over the last few months, we’ve seen consistent reporting from the right-wing press as well as claims made by right-wing MPs that there is an exodus of millionaires from the UK due to its tax policies. Indeed, the moral panic whipped up by the right-wing press, has seen Reform’s Nigel Farage also claim yesterday that there was an exodus of millionaires from the UK, which he used as an excuse to rule out further wealth taxes should Reform come to power. But the facts show that…

‘Reform spouts a lot of nonsense about being on the side of workers, but these figures show people aren’t buying it.’ The number of council workers joining unions has increased in areas where Reform took control on 1 May. The GMB has reported that workers are “flocking” to join unions due to fears that Reform will attack their pay, jobs and conditions.  GMB has seen increases in union membership at Reform-led Durham, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Doncaster councils.  GMB national officer Rachel Harrison told the PA news agency: “Reform spouts a lot of nonsense about being on the side…