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The Cardiff University study found Reform was referenced in just under a fifth of ITV News At Ten bulletins, compared with 6.2% for the Liberal Democrats, meaning Reform was covered three times more. The study of the two bulletins also raised questions about the scrutiny of Reform. In just under a fifth of cases, there was no analysis of Reform's policies or claims. They were rigorously scrutinised in just under four in 10 cases, and to some extent in another four in 10 cases.

Aseem Malholtra, an adviser to US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, said: "One of Britain's most eminent oncologists Professor Angus Dalgleish said to me to share with you today that he thinks it's highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers in the royal family." Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that it was "shockingly irresponsible" of Reform to allow Dr Malholtra at the conference.

Nigel Farage, Reform UK's leader, has said there is every chance of a general election in 2027 and declared he will run on a pledge to stop the boats within two weeks of entering No 10. The Sunday Times is reporting that Mahmood, conscious of Farage's popularity with voters, is likely to want to reform the European convention on human rights (ECHR), with a source telling the paper that the former justice secretary would start with the unthinkable and work backwards.

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The MP for Birmingham Ladywood has won admirers for being an effective justice secretary and persuasive communicator while forcing through potentially explosive policies such as prisoners' early release schemes and a new sentencing regime. But her ability to tackle her new responsibilities which include immigration, national security and policing will be seen as key to curbing the growing electoral threat of Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

Twelve thousand people are supposed to be attending Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham over three days this week (according to Reform at least), and Crossman is one of them. Their leader, Nigel Farage, has said it is ridiculous to refer to carbon dioxide as a pollutant and added: I can't tell you whether CO2 is leading to warming or not.

Nigel Farage could strip the City watchdog of its power to regulate the banking industry under a sweeping overhaul to undo changes made after the 2008 financial crisis if Reform UK was elected to government. The leader of the party at the top of opinion polls has said he wants to prepare for the potential for an early general election in 2027.

Asked about what he would do as chancellor, Tice said the party's priority would be to focus on savings and cutting regulation. "We have to focus on the savings because regrettably the finances of this country are in terrible, terrible trouble," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "We will have to deal with whatever nightmare situation the government finances are in at the time of the next general election."

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), urged the chancellor to stay the course on her plans to invest in the country, adding that the government should not be afraid of adopting a little bit of economic leftwing populism. Ahead of the TUC's annual gathering this weekend, he called Nigel Farage an absolute political opportunist who could be challenged by Labour demonstrating that it was genuinely on the side of working people, through better employment rights and a fairer tax system.

You could argue that prime minister's questions is no longer fit for purpose. Indeed, that it never really has been. Just a theatre showcase for some performance politics where few answers are ever extracted from the prime minister. To which you might now add that the Tories are not the real opposition. So Kemi Badenoch is essentially an impostor. Sometime over the summer the mantle of official opposition passed to Reform UK. So it really should be Nigel Farage, not Kemi, asking the questions.

Latest Ipsos polling has the Tory party's national vote share on just 15%. YouGov polling has the party on 18%. The last time the Conservative party polled 30% or more was in September 2022. A party that gave people a choice at the ballot box has become a husk. It is, as a former MP colleague said to me recently, akin to an empty warehouse the building is still there but the goods inside have all but disappeared.

The report was made on Friday, the force added. The Electoral Commission says a person is guilty of treating if either before, during or after an election they directly or indirectly give or provide any food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence any voter to vote or refrain from voting. Treating requires a corrupt intent - it does not apply to ordinary hospitality, the commission adds.

Reform publicly declared a boycott of the training yet many of their councillors still attended. That shows they cannot be trusted to stand by their own words.

With eight months still to go until the Holyrood election, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has confidently predicted that the Conservatives will soon cease to be a political force in Scotland. Farage was speaking as he announced that Graham Simpson had joined Reform after becoming the third MSP to quit the Tories in the past four months. It leaves Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay facing enormous questions about the future of his party, which is now consistently trailing Reform in opinion polls.

The party has suggested it would be prepared to deport 600,000 people under the policy, if it wins the next general election.

Too many people feel let down and ignored. They feel the system is against them, that the traditional parties don't even care about them.

Labour has lost almost 200,000 members in the past five years, according to the party's latest annual accounts. The party's membership has been steadily falling since Sir Keir Starmer became leader in April 2020, from a peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019. Despite the party's landslide election victory last summer, it shed another 37,215 members over the course of 2024, around 10% of its total membership at the start of the year.