Farage could face recall petition and byelection over £5m gift from crypto king

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Newspaper with the headline: Farage could face recall petition and byelection over £5m gift from crypto king

This one is from The Observer:

Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation

The Reform leader faces two possible investigations over the undeclared gift from Christopher Harborne. A lengthy Commons suspension could lead to a recall petition – and end up costing him his Clacton seat

Nigel Farage’s victory celebrations could be over before his newly minted councillors have even taken up their positions, as pressure builds over his undeclared £5m donation from Christopher Harborne.

Last week, the Guardian revealed that Reform’s leader had received a seven-figure sum from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire just weeks before announcing he would stand in the 2024 general election – reversing a decision he had made shortly before.

Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation, The Observer

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?

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Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors elected under the Reform banner on 7 May 2026, or in by-elections after that date, who have already departed the party for one reason or another.

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?

Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power

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Reform has run councils for a year. As local elections near, we ask: how has the party performed in power?

Broken promises, broken roads, and broken council leadership teams – that’s the outcome of Reform UK’s first year in power, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals.

[…] Reform raised taxes in every council where it holds or shares power. Potholes continue to cause accidents and damage, and councillors’ struggles over where to make promised savings have put much-loved local services at risk of closure.

Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power, Sian Norris, Open Democracy

Reform-led Lancashire county council could quit refugee resettlement scheme

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Councillor announces plan to withdraw from government-funded programme on eve of local elections

The Reform-led Lancashire county council will withdraw from the government’s refugee resettlement scheme, one of its cabinet members has said.

Joshua Roberts announced plans for Lancashire to leave the scheme, which would make it the first local authority to do so. It would mean Lancashire would no longer participate in the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) and the Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP).

The authority coordinates participation in these schemes on behalf of 14 unitary and district councils in Lancashire that have responsibilities for housing.

Reform-led Lancashire county council could quit refugee resettlement scheme, The Guardian

Reform’s ‘spiteful’ immigration stunt backfires spectacularly

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“A serious democracy does not punish voters for voting a certain way. That is called tyranny.”

Reform UK’s latest immigration policy – widely condemned as vindictive and divisive – has triggered a fierce backlash across the political spectrum, including from one of the party’s own former MPs.

The proposal, unveiled ahead of local elections, would see migrant detention centres deliberately placed in areas that vote for the Green Party, while sparing constituencies that back Reform. The policy forms part of a broader plan to detain and deport tens of thousands of people each year, with new facilities holding up to 24,000 migrants at any one time.

Reform’s ‘spiteful’ immigration stunt backfires spectacularly, The London Economic

James O’Brien questions tabloid silence on Farage’s £5m gift

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“Sometimes you look at a story’s coverage and you wonder whether you are actually part of something truly hideous.”

James O’Brien has expressed his bafflement at the tabloid coverage – or rather, the lack of it – that Nigel Farage’s undeclared £5m gift has received.

Last week, the Guardian revealed that Farage had been given £5m from by British cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne, who is based in Thailand and has since donated millions to Reform UK.

James O’Brien questions tabloid silence on Farage’s £5m gift, London Economic

MPs demand Reform suspend candidate over claims he celebrated rape of Sikh women

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West Midlands Labour MPs write to borough Reform leader after alleged posts by Stuart Prior

Labour MPs have called for a Reform UK election candidate in Essex to be suspended after he allegedly celebrated the rape of two Sikh women in the Midlands.

MPs demand Reform suspend candidate over claims he celebrated rape of Sikh women, The Guardian

Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

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Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors.

Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal.

Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea oil and gas drilling ahead of UK-wide elections in May on the ill-founded claim that it will cut energy bills.

DeSmog’s analysis reveals that 67 percent of Reform’s funding to date has come from donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling more than £24 million.

Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Adam Barnett and Sam Bright, Desmog

Fife Reform candidate’s tirade against Brexit revealed

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Labour defector Julie MacDougall slated the impact of Nigel Farage’s dream in a bid to play up her pro-European credentials, The Courier can reveal.

A senior Fife Reform election candidate said that Brexit left the NHS “on its knees” and warned key promises had not been delivered, The Courier can reveal.

Julie MacDougall, standing for Brexit campaign architect Nigel Farage’s party in Kirkcaldy next week, claimed the country’s exit from the EU had left Britain in a “state of disarray”.

Her anti-Brexit tirade came four years ago in an official application for an endorsement from the Labour Movement for Europe group, which have now obtained in full.

Fife Reform candidate’s tirade against Brexit revealed,Justin Bowie, thecourier.co.uk
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Zack Polanski

RT: @AaronBastani While I was in Merthyr I had the most extraordinary conversation: while visiting south Wales Farage had allegedly come by helicopter – but then drove from the next valley, where the chopper was – to obscure how he travels.

Reform are welcome to correct!

29 April 2026, 08:39 25 boosts 15 favorites

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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes

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Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”

Reform-run Kent County Council has sold off a work of public art by one of Britain’s most respected sculptors, Antony Gormley.

Gormley’s ‘Two Stones’ was hosted outside the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone until a few days ago.

The work was one of Gormley’s first commissions. The renowned artist studied and later taught at the Maidstone School of Art.

Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes, Byline Times

Scottish Reform UK candidate backed far-right activist Tommy Robinson

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A SCOTTISH Reform UK candidate has come under fire after she called for the deportation of Muslims in a series of social media posts.

In messages unearthed by ITV Border, Galloway and West Dumfries Holyrood candidate Senga Beresford has been found to have endorsed a post that called for the UK to “deport the lot of them”, in reference to Muslims.

Scottish Reform UK candidate backed far-right activist Tommy Robinson

Councillors walk out of migration emergency debate

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Kent County Council has declared an “illegal migration emergency” after opposition councillors walked out of a debate in protest.

The authority passed a motion, put forward by Reform UK councillors, stating that the county was a “frontier for the influx of illegal migrants” and residents were “dealing with the consequences”.

Other parties chose to leave the chamber ahead of the vote, claiming the debate breached electoral rules ahead of a by-election for the Cliftonville ward, with Liberal Democrat group leader Antony Hook stating that the motion was “based on prejudicial, discriminatory assumptions”.

Councillors walk out of migration emergency debate, BBC

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  • divisive fantasy debates staged during a vital pre-by-election period
  • stunt for political purposes during an election
  • complained to the Electoral Commission

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front

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Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester, holds a visiting professorship at a university centre whose network includes the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation. Byline Times can reveal that Goodwin has actively defended, promoted and cited key figures within the network, which encompasses at least five organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience.

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front, bylinetimes.com

Reform UK would reimpose two-child benefit cap

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Reform UK has said it would reintroduce the two-child benefit cap in full if the party wins power, in a shift away from scrapping the limit.

The policy, introduced under the Conservatives in 2017, means parents can only claim universal credit or tax credits for their first two children.

Reform UK would reimpose two-child benefit cap, BBC

Councillor quits ‘sinister’ Restore Britain after just two days

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A North Northamptonshire local councillor has quit Restore Britain just two days day after defecting to it from Reform, describing Rupert Lowe’s new party “far more sinister than I first thought”.

Cllr Darren Rance, who represents Brickhill and Queensway, announced on Wednesday that he and fellow councillor Jack Goncalvez were leaving Reform to join Restore Britain, the hard‑right party announced by Rupert Lowe last week.

Councillor quits ‘sinister’ Restore Britain after just two days, searchlightmagazine.com

Kent county councillor from Margate jailed over years of controlling abuse of wife

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A Kent county councillor has been jailed for 12 months after admitting to subjecting his wife to years of controlling and coercive behaviour.

Daniel Taylor, 35, from Margate, was sentenced at Margate Magistrates’ Court today after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing.

Kent county councillor from Margate jailed over years of controlling abuse of wife

Thanet deserved better than Reform’s Daniel Taylor

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For nearly ten months now, the residents of Cliftonville have been throwing away hard earned taxes, on an elected representative that deceived them from the start.

Reform UK relentlessly sold Taylor to Cliftonville as a ‘devoted family man’ without bothering to properly look into his background. But as we all know now, this is no isolated incident.

Thanet deserved better than Reform’s Daniel Taylor, thanetlibdems.uk

Lib Dems win by-election after Reform controversy

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The Liberal Democrats have won a council by-election which saw Reform withdraw support for its candidate over offensive social media posts.

Zetland ward voters elected Alison Barnes to Teesside’s Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council on Thursday, following the resignation of Independent councillor Jonny Neal.

Lib Dems win by-election after Reform controversy, BBC

Reform UK councillor defects to Restore Britain

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A Reform UK councillor in Leicestershire has defected to a new party recently launched by MP Rupert Lowe.

Charles Whitford, previously a member of Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet, announced he had moved to Restore Britain on Thursday.

Reform UK councillor defects to Restore Britain, BBC

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said

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Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Reform UK’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election has said the party would put public sector unions “under review” if it came to power, in a sign of the challenges Nigel Farage faces as he seeks to court working-class voters.

“[Reform] will place public sector trade unions under review,” Matthew Goodwin said during a speech in early December, before the by-election had been called, at which he set out a wide-ranging policy vision for a Reform government to “fix broken Britain”.

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said, ft.com

Two Northants Reform UK councillors quit party to join new rival

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More musical chairs as two North unitary councillors quit Reform UK to join Restore Britain

Two Reform UK councillors on North Northamptonshire Council have sensationally quit the party today to join a newly formed rival.

Cllr Jack Goncalvez (Rushden Lakes ward) and Darren Rance (Brickhill & Queensway ward) have been announced as new councillors by the Restore Britain party, which was launched on Friday evening by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe.

They follow a number of other councillors from Kent County Council in joining the new party, with Cllr Goncalvez accusing his former party of ‘courting the establishment it claims to oppose’.

Two Northants Reform UK councillors quit party to join new rival, NN Journal

‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton

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Earlier this week, the anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate passed us their research into Goodwin’s fellow campaigners. They had identified five separate individuals who had been out campaigning with Goodwin who had shared racist content online or expressed support for far-right groups. In some cases, there is little grey area: Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it.

‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton, manchestermill.co.uk

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters

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Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party

Reform UK will face a police investigation in Gorton and Denton after admitting it sent out letters from a “concerned neighbour” which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party.

Greater Manchester police confirmed it had received a report about the breach of electoral law and said it would investigate. The Electoral Commission said the omission was a matter for the police, stressing that failing “to include an imprint in candidate election material is an offence”.

Dozens of voters in the Gorton and Denton constituency reported receiving letters from a pensioner written in a handwriting-style font on Friday. The letters do not include an imprint saying who they have been funded and distributed by, as required by electoral law.

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters, The Guardian

Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton

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People across the constituency thought they were getting a letter from a concerned pensioner, they didn’t know she was working for Reform

Every letter is addressed, both on the envelope and at the head of the letter, to the residents of the property, by name, suggesting whoever sent them has access to the electoral register. One recipient of the letter who wrote in, told us that the name on her letter was indeed her real name – but not the name that any of her friends (or neighbours) know her by. This same recipient has opted out of the Open Register, meaning that her name should only be accessible to political parties or their agents for legitimate campaigning purposes. Crucially, not one person we spoke to knew of a Patricia Clegg in the area. “Just to be clear, I have no idea who she is and if she is even real,” wrote one recipient.

Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton, The Mill

Analysis of Reform UK proposal for income tax cuts in Scotland

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The biggest direct beneficiaries of such a change would be the high-income taxpayers who currently pay substantially more in income tax than in the rest of the UK

…

But this does not properly confront the challenges they would face in finding £2 billion or more of spending cuts in the coming parliament.

Analysis of Reform UK proposal for income tax cuts in Scotland, ifs.org.uk

White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors

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[…]

People found by The Observer in the database appear to include an ex-member of the British National Party, activists with the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative, and a man who ran for political office for Britain First.

[…]

A user called Gavin Beales also appeared in the database. An email associated with the profile, set up in 2019, shares a name with a Reform councillor elected in November and also appears to be from the same part of Northamptonshire.

White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors, The Observer

Police assess claims Reform UK breached electoral law during Farage campaign

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Party denies ex-councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year

[…]

Richard Everett, a former Reform UK councillor and member of Farage’s campaign team, reportedly submitted documents to police showing the party spent more than the £20,660 limit in the Essex constituency.

Police assess claims Reform UK breached electoral law during Farage campaign, The Guardian

Reform UK Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran breaks silence over leaked video with ‘obnoxious’ message

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Embattled Reform UK council leader Linden Kemkaran has broken her silence over a leaked video of her swearing and shouting at members which has plunged her administration into crisis.

Reform UK Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran breaks silence over leaked video with ‘obnoxious’ message, Kent Online

What we get wrong about unpaid carers

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It’s worth thinking about this pre-NHS landscape of health care in Britain, as we weigh up the dire state of social care and support for family carers today. Although health spending takes up an increasing amount of public spending – it was the main beneficiary of last year’s unpopular tax rises – few would openly call for the restoration of the pre-NHS insurance system (though read between the lines of Reform UK’s manifesto, and it’s a different matter).

What we get wrong about unpaid carers, www.transformingsociety.co.uk

Expulsions ‘a sorry state of affairs’, Reform KCC leader

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The leader of Reform UK-run Kent County Council has described the suspensions and expulsions of councillors from her party as “a sorry state of affairs”.

Linden Kemkaran was speaking after five of her colleagues were expelled for bringing the party into disrepute.

It followed a leaked recording of a video meeting in which Kemkaran was seen shouting and swearing at other Reform councillors.

Expulsions ‘a sorry state of affairs’, Reform KCC leader, BBC

Kent shows Reform does not know how to govern

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The problems that the council is facing suggests Nigel Farage’s party is far from ready to exercise power

[…]

For Reform, east of Edenbridge became an Eden; during a fractious internal party meeting during which council members attempted to discuss the budget, leaked by councillors, leader of the council Linden Kemkaran said: “We are a shop window. People are judging us every single minute of every single day – Nigel knows that, he is super aware that we are the flagship council.”

But like Eden, not everyone is capable of indefinitely living in paradise. Four members were initially suspended under suspicion of leaking the video, and five have now been removed from the party for bringing it into “disrepute” and displaying a “lack of integrity”.

Kent shows Reform does not know how to govern, telegraph.co.uk

Reform UK expels two Kent councillors accused of ‘undermining’ its interests

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Robert Ford, subject of an ‘unofficial complaint’, and Bill Barrett, suspended after leaked meeting, removed via email

Two suspended Reform UK councillors from Kent have been expelled from the party over a misconduct allegation and after the Guardian published a leaked video which revealed tensions among its county council ranks.

Robert Ford and Bill Barrett were removed from the party via an email from Reform HQ on Monday, which said they had “undermined” the interests of the party and brought it into “disrepute”.

Ford and Barrett sat on Kent county council alongside Oliver Bradshaw, Paul Thomas and Maxine Fothergill, who were also suspended last week. The Guardian understands Thomas, Bradshaw and Fothergill remain suspended pending investigation.

Reform UK expels two Kent councillors accused of ‘undermining’ its interests, theguardian.com

Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party

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Five Reform UK county councillors have been expelled from the party for bringing it into “disrepute” and displaying a “lack of integrity”.

Kent councillors Bill Barrett and Robert Ford, who criticised the party’s “toxic” and “incompetent” leadership, were kicked out by email from Reform HQ, which said they had undermined the interests of the party.

Councillors Oliver Bradshaw, Brian Black, and Paul Thomas were also expelled for showing “a pattern of dishonest and deceptive behaviour which the party will not tolerate”, Reform UK said.

It comes after a damaging video leak showing the Reform UK leader of Kent County Council (KCC) Linden Kemkaran swearing and shouting during a council meeting.

Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party. BBC

Reform UK expels three more Kent county councillors for ‘dishonest and deceptive’ behaviour

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Reform UK has expelled another three county councillors from the party this afternoon alleging “a pattern of dishonest and deceptive behaviour”.

The dismissals of Cllrs Brian Black, Paul Thomas and Oliver Bradshaw brings to five the number of expulsions from the Kent County Council group in the past four days.

Reform UK expels three more Kent county councillors for ‘dishonest and deceptive’ behaviour, Kent Online

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since May? (36)

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Here is a list of the councillors which Reform has shed from the May 2025 local elections. The latest updates are the addition of three more defections in Cornwall, reinforcing Reform’s loss of largest party status on the council, plus also another three expulsions in Kent. Plus bonus news from Grantham…

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since May?, Mark Pack

Reform UK suspends four Kent councillors after leaked video

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Party accuses council members of bringing Reform ‘into disrepute’ as film of private meeting shows fractious dispute

Reform UK has suspended four of its Kent councillors after a video was leaked of the council’s leader telling her colleagues to “suck it up”.

Reform UK suspends four Kent councillors after leaked video, ft.com

Reform’s first crack at power is already in crisis

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The party’s performance in Kent shows it is nowhere near ready for government

[…]

Antony Hook, leader of the Liberal Democrats in Kent, says Reform was convinced they could make large savings from cutting the county’s budget on asylum seekers.

“They were really fixated on it. Every question they’d ask would be about the cost of asylum. We kept explaining that KCC doesn’t have that large a role in that and how it’s mainly a Home Office expense.

“We tried to explain that the big problem is adult social care, but they would just say: ‘What about asylum?’

“This is where reality has now collided with ideology. They said they’d take their chainsaw to a forest of waste. But the chainsaw seems to have been made out of sponge, and rather than a forest they’ve found an open field where there’s nothing to use it on.”

Reform’s first crack at power is already in crisis, The Telegraph

Poll predicts East Hampshire could turn Lib Dem as Reform UK surge across county

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East Hampshire could switch from Conservative to Liberal Democrat if an election were held today, according to a new YouGov poll.

The survey also predicts that nine Hampshire constituencies would be won by Reform UK.

The second YouGov poll of 13,000 voters since the last general election projects a Reform UK government winning 311 seats, just 15 short of a majority.

Poll predicts East Hampshire could turn Lib Dem as Reform UK surge across county, farnhamherald.com

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

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Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

He never seems to tire of deriding “net stupid zero”, but Reform UK’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, has a 15-year business record of support for sustainability and green energy initiatives.

The Reform party has made opposition to green energy and net zero part of its policy platform. Its founder, Nigel Farage, has called net zero policies a “lunacy”; the party has called to lift the ban on fracking for fossil gas; and one of the first Reform-led councils, Kent, rescinded last month its declaration of a climate emergency.

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives, Damien Gayle Environment correspondent, The Guardian, Fri 10 Oct 2025

Doncaster Council: Reform UK secures unplanned full council meeting to re-appoint committee chairs

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Reform UK have secured an extraordinary meeting of the City of Doncaster Council in attempts to regain control of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee (OSMC).

The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) understands the meeting, scheduled for October 23, 2025, will see the party nominate new chairs and vice-chairs of various council committees.

A group spokesperson declined to comment on their exact plans for the meeting, including on who they would be nominating to chair key committees.

Doncaster Council: Reform UK secures unplanned full council meeting to re-appoint committee chairs, Doncaster Free Press

Do Britons think Reform UK are racist? (mostly, yes)

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Labour are attempting to take the fight to Reform UK, with Keir Starmer describing the rival party’s proposal to scrap indefinite leave to remain as “racist”, while home secretary Shabana Mahmood has branded Nigel Farage of “worse than racist” dog-whistle politics.

A new YouGov survey conducted for ITV Peston finds that more than four in ten Britons consider the Reform UK party (47%), policies (46%) and voters (43%) to be “generally racist”. This compares to 35-36% in each case who disagree, believing them to generally not be racist.

Do Britons think Reform UK are racist?, YouGov
Polling data in chart form; Britons tend to think that the Reform UK party, its policies, and its voters are generally racist - although most Tory and Reform voters disagree

Image a screenshot from yougov.co.uk