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Four Reform-led councils want to raise tax by maximum allowed amount with more areas not being ruled outA Reform-led local authority has confirmed it is planning to increase council tax by the maximum allowed amount, despite promises during the local e…
Anas Sarwar says prime minister’s missteps have left party clear underdogs in run-up to May electionUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer and senior ministers have been urged by Scottish Labour to “stay behind their doors” in Whitehall to avoid…
Zia Yusuf announces plans for mandatory sentences with no parole, as party targets grooming gangsChild rapists would be jailed for life if Reform UK wins the next election, its head of policy has said.Under plans announced by Zia Yusuf on Saturday, the…
New Labour advertising guru Chris Powell says urgent plan needed to ‘wage and win the daily war for attention’Chris Powell: What is Keir Starmer doing to push back the populists? Not nearly enoughKeir Starmer does not have enough of a plan to defeat th…
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the GreensThe Green party leader, Zack Polanski, is offering voters “unicorns” and Labour must confront his “fantasy” solutions such as the idea …
Activist was entitled to UK passport but for a rising number of voters Britishness is something you are born with What does it mean to be British? That question is increasingly at the heart of our national political debate. And it has become a more urg…
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identityThe number of people who believe “Britishness” is something you are born with has almost doubled in two years, according to research that warns of a ris…
Health minister decries criticism of vaccinations by heads of four authorities as ‘dangerous and utterly irresponsible’A third of Reform UK’s council leaders across the country have expressed vaccine-sceptic views, openly questioning public health meas…
Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge A Reform UK mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean” has suggested that at least eight other politicians from m…
Essex force says report is outside time limit for prosecution, while Electoral Commission says it has not found any undeclared spendingNigel Farage has avoided investigation over claims his general election campaign breached electoral law last year – i…