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Embarrassing byelection defeat for Keir Starmer as Greens seize Labour stronghold – The Irish Times

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UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has suffered an embarrassing election defeat in an area of Greater Manchester ​that it had dominated for almost a century, a loss that underscores the breakdown of Britain’s two-party politics. The loss of one of Labour’s safest seats, in the biggest electoral test in almost a year, puts … Read more

Nigel Farage couldn’t resist defection of ‘disruptive’ Suella Braverman – The Irish Times

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage teased the crowd of party loyalists who showed up to its veterans’ event at an old guildhall in central London on Monday morning. “It’s about time, isn’t it?” he said, trying to ramp up the mystery. But by the time he was halfway through his opening speech, many had already … Read more

Suella Braverman defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform and slams Tory ‘lies’ – The Irish Times

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Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Tory MP to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Ms Braverman, who had been widely expected to follow her former Tory colleague Robert Jenrick into the upstart populist right wing party, told a gathering of Reform activists in central London on Monday that “Britain is … Read more

England’s poorest town in Nigel Farage’s heartland – The Irish Times

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The “grand opening” banner was still draped limply across the window of Flappy Joe’s fast food chicken shop in Jaywick on Monday, two days after Nigel Farage cut the ribbon. The Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton-on-Sea had been out and about last Saturday in his constituency, 130km northeast of London on Essex’s North … Read more

Tory’s Robert Jenrick defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – The Irish Times

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Robert Jenrick, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after being sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet. The former shadow justice secretary had the Conservative whip removed and his party membership suspended on Thursday morning after his party leader, Kemi Badenoch, said she had found “irrefutable evidence” that he was … Read more

The Irish Sea is to be renamed the British Sea – and from now on underwear will be worn on the outside – The Irish Times

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Welcome to the United Kingdom of 2029. Nigel Farage, having scraped a majority of parliamentary seats at the general election, summons reporters to a press conference at Downing Street. His desk groans beneath vellum scrolls, each decorated with ribbon and wax seal. You know? The sort of things King John unrolled in The Adventures of … Read more

Farage says he and Musk are ‘friends’ but warns: ‘I can’t be bullied’ | Politics | News

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Nigel Farage has said he and Elon Musk are still friends but warned he “can’t be bullied” after the Tesla boss called for a new Reform UK leader. It comes after the tech billionaire said on his social media site X last week that the MP “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead his party. … Read more