Reform
Can Reform reform?
Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent…
Portrait of the week: The assisted dying bill falls, the Sussexes quit a school and Trump praises a united Ireland
Home MPs voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that offered assisted suicide, by 286 to 270;…
Which prime ministers have sporting achievements?
Premier sports Andy Burnham took part in the Great North Run, a half marathon, finishing in 1 hour 57 minutes.…
How to defeat Reform on immigration
It’s now 24 years since I started writing about the urgent need to reform or quit the asylum provisions of…
On the hunt for corruption at Reform party conference
As seen in the Guardian It’s the end of the hottest summer in British history, and the business reception at…
Time’s up for Burnham’s happy thoughts
Kemi Badenoch, headlines my newspaper, ‘prepares Tories for early general election’ with her big reshuffle this week. I do not…
Revealed: the feuding at the heart of Reform
If Tolstoy had written about British politics, he might have noted: ‘Happy parties are all alike; every unhappy party is…
Watch: Lowe offers an alliance with Farage
The Greater Manchester result showed what Restore Britain can deliver. The next step is how we maximise the chances of…
‘He’s either the Messiah – or the Antichrist’: on the campaign trail with Nigel Farage
‘We love you, Nigel!’ In Clacton-on-Sea, there is little sign that the Reform leader’s star has waned. Campaigning with Farage…
Reform is right to fear the return of Boris
The man from Reform had barely sat down at our table at the French bistro when he leant forward conspiratorially…
Letters: many are waiting for the Tory comeback
Con’s the word Sir: In his article ‘Neo con’ (6 June) Michael Simmons claims that neoliberalism powered this country into…
Letters: Reform and the Conservatives need each other
Greco-Roman wrestling Sir: Rod Liddle suggests that some, perhaps many, middle-class voters on the right or centre right are deterred…
The secret shame of being ‘Reform-curious’
As a sucker for any melody which relies heavily upon fourth and eighth notes hammered out on a piano, I…
Farage’s plan to win over the left
The loudest man in politics knows when to keep his silence. Nigel Farage held his tongue on Monday as Keir…
Can our democracy survive the ‘bad chaps’?
What is the greatest threat to British democracy? Zack Polanski’s call for ‘building a society’ that ‘doesn’t include’ people who…
In the local elections, think local
In March, just before Artemis II rounded the far side of the Moon, the Transport Secretary had her own lunar…
‘We’ll wake up on 8 May and realise that the Conservative party’s gone’: Inside Reform’s plan to devour the Tories
When Zia Yusuf first walked into the headquarters of Reform UK, he gestured at the empty room and asked: ‘Where’s…
Has Reform peaked?
Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from…
Did I ever really stand a chance in the by-election?
Four weeks after I decided to upend my life by standing as the Reform UK candidate at the Gorton and…
What Poilievre can (and can’t) teach the British Right
Over the last week, I have been stalking Pierre Poilievre. The leader of the Canadian Conservative Party has been in…
The thinking behind Nigel Farage’s shadow cabinet
There is an old joke about Nigel Farage, put about by former colleagues. ‘Why is Nigel like a beech tree?……
‘It’ll be a photo finish’: inside the Gorton and Denton by-election
British by-elections are often prolonged affairs, dragging on for months. Yet in the Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton –…
The allure of Reform
Kemi Badenoch’s travails with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party have taken me back to the politics of the 1980s and…
‘Boris didn’t care!’: Dominic Cummings on lawfare, lockdowns & the broken British state | part one
In this special two-part interview, Michael Gove and Madeline Grant are joined by Dominic Cummings. After starting his political career…
The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection
Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…
