Reform UK

Tories braced for losses while Reform could emerge on top as parts of England hold local and mayoral votes

Nigel Farage’s party vies with Labour for working class votes in England’s north and midlands while Tories and Lib Dems battle in the south

Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled

Worldview: Running through contemporary debates is a battle between those who say reconciliation should come before constitutional change and those who argue for the reverse

‘Have you watched Adolescence yet?’ - Life imitates art for Kemi Badenoch

Party colleagues fear her low-wattage turn as Tory leader could spell trouble

Goals scored and steelworks saved in Scunthorpe’s day of two halves

The UK’s Labour government passed emergency laws to save British Steel on Saturday after a row with its Chinese owner while Scunthorpe United played out a crucial match

Birmingham’s rubbish piles high against walls covered in pro-Palestine graffiti

Birmingham Letter: The city’s bin strike crisis is being portrayed as a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’

Nigel Farage gears up for Reform UK’s ‘big moment’ in May 1st elections

Council and mayoral votes and crucial Westminster byelection will give clearer picture of whether Farage’s party can meet the hype

Reform UK undergoes schism amid row linked to Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson

Party leader Nigel Farage has fallen out with MP Rupert Lowe, seen as one of ‘Tommy’s people'

All bar one: Westminster parties almost fully united behind Ukraine as UK hits Russia with more sanctions

Only Nigel Farage’s Reform UK stayed away from Commons debate in support of Ukraine

Debates over Rishi Sunak’s Englishness or Leo Varadkar’s Irishness are deranged

It’s rightly treated with the same disdain - not because it's too provocative, but because it's too weird

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

A few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America

England is mired in self-doubt and disillusionment - but Ireland can’t afford to gloat

Keir Starmer is walking a very tricky tightrope. Figures close to Trump, including Elon Musk, openly speak of reversing the 2024 UK election outcome by removing him from office

Keir Starmer could face rising pressure to climb down on farm inheritance tax

London Letter: Economic disquiet among farmers and in rural communities has been brewing since long before the tax changes

Ire of farmers and pensioners mounts as British Labour faces possibility of new ‘winter of discontent’

Protest this week by farmers over inheritance tax raid sounds alarm bells for Labour’s rural prospects

‘Prime minister Farage’: Reform UK leader says party has ‘come of age’ and could win the next election

Up to 4,000 jubilant members gather for party conference in Birmingham

Ireland has an almost embarrassing abundance of revenue compared with the UK’s budgetary problems

The problems of Ireland are ones the new UK Labour administration would love: too much money, large tax surpluses and politicians choosing where to spend

Tensions in Reform UK after Nigel Farage shakes up party leadership

Party leader sacks Reform’s deputy leaders as one of them expresses ‘concerns’ over decision making

Reform UK loses out in first-past-the-post anomaly despite winning one in seven votes

Farage’s party got a bigger vote than the Liberal Democrats but ended up with 67 fewer seats

Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as UK prime minister after historic victory

New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer

British electoral politics are still reassuringly loony

London Letter: Joke candidates such as Nick the Incredible Flying Brick are a beloved tradition in British elections

‘It’s the Mayo supporter in me’: the Ballycastle Labour woman battling for Tory Kwasi Kwarteng’s old seat

Spelthorne was once considered unwinnable for Labour but Mayo woman Claire Tighe has made it as toss up

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