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This live blog is now closedOne person probably more enthusiastic than most about the prospect of Universal opening a theme park in the UK is the Lib Dem leader Ed Davey. He is a great fan of outdoor activity-related photocalls, and he’s been at it aga…
Backbench groups revive controversial issue to counter threat of Reform UK and tackle unauthorised workingMore than 40 Labour MPs from three influential backbench groups have called on ministers to introduce digital IDs, which they claim would boost pr…
Analysis suggests prioritising projects that give quick local results may hold back support for populismAreas that received money from the last government’s much-criticised levelling up fund tended to have lower votes for Reform UK in the general elect…
Labour accuses Nigel Farage’s party of ‘mass rebrand’ after research into nominations of former ConservativesMore than 60 of Reform UK’s council candidates standing in this year’s elections are defectors from the Conservative party, according to resear…
PM uses launch of Labour local election campaign to attack Nigel Farage over past comments about Russian leaderKeir Starmer has accused Reform UK of “fawning over Putin” as the prime minister used the launch of Labour’s local election campaign to attac…
PM says measures mark ‘the beginning of a new era’ for trade and the global economyInternet safety campaigners have expressed alarm about reports that the Online Safety Act could be reviewed as part of the economic deal the UK is negotiating with the U…
As Reform UK launched its English local elections campaign in Birmingham there were murmurs among activists about the fate of a ‘popular figure’There was one name on the lips of many Reform supporters before their party’s local election campaign launch…
Billboards in Birmingham cite party leader’s remarks about a new funding model as local elections campaigning beginsLabour has begun an all-out assault on Nigel Farage over his views on the NHS in the run-up to key elections in May, as the Reform UK le…
Reform leader also says Andrew Tate has so many young male followers because society ‘feminises’ them too muchNigel Farage has said men will more readily sacrifice their family lives to be successful in their business careers than women, and that young…
Report on former Reform UK MP details ‘unacceptable remarks’ and ‘criticism meted out unpleasantly and harshly’Two women who worked for Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP who was suspended from the party earlier this month, gave “credible” evidence o…