Angela Rayner will stand in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions today. The Deputy Prime Minister will face Tory Chris Philp in the Commons for the weekly grilling session as the Prime Minister travels back from the G7 summit. Ms Rayner could be questioned on the grooming gangs scandal after Sir Keir announced a national inquiry in a … Read more
Downing Street has admitted the Channel migrant crisis is getting worse as the number of arrivals since Sir Keir Starmer took office surged past 40,000. At least 300 people crossed in small boats on Tuesday as fresh chaos erupted on French beaches. Some 2,000 asylum seekers are feared to have crossed in the last week alone. Responding to Downing Street’s admission the … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer insisted he doesn’t regret accusing people who called for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal of jumping “on a bandwagon of the far-Right”. He refused to apologise, despite carrying out a u-turn this week and announcing that he would now set up a statutory national inquiry to discover why police, social services and other … Read more
Nigel Farage has called for military action in the English Channel, arguing that the government “should declare a national security emergency” to tackle the migrant crisis. The comments come after the Prime Minister admitted at the G7 summit in Canada that the Channel situation is “deteriorating”, as new figures revealed more than 40,000 migrants have … Read more
The white hot fury on the streets of this country over the Pakistani rape gangs is matched only by the anger at the supine complicity and cover-up of the establishment, who stood back for decades and let our children be abused on an industrial scale. As I listened, physically incensed, while this appalling crop of … Read more
Reform UK would take power in Wales if there was an election tomorrow, new polling suggests. Nigel Farage’s insurgent party is in the lead on 29% in the Welsh Parliament voting intention tracker by Find Out Now. Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is second with 27% in the survey on which party voters would back for the … Read more
The Durham Miners’ Association has doubled down on its refusal to invite Reform UK to its 139th annual gala despite the party’s landslide victory in the county’s council election. Last month, the DMA’s general secretary Alan Mardghum vowed that leader Nigel Farage would “never, ever, ever be invited” to the gala – and now, the … Read more
Suella Braverman has defended a historic claim on Pakistani grooming gangs after it was labelled “offensive” and “misleading” by the UK’s press regulator. The former Home Secretary received a complaint after she wrote in 2023 that UK child grooming gangs were made up of “almost all British-Pakistani men”. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) instructed … Read more
Reform UK hit out at a local council over claims it is spending taxpayers’ money on TV licences for asylum seekers. Zia Yusuf said Kent County Council was covering the £174.50 fee for migrants. The former Reform chairman is heading up the insurgent party’s Doge initiative to drive down local public spending based on the US’s Department of Government Efficiency. … Read more
Nigel Farage’s “Doge” unit has revealed that Kent taxpayers spent thousands of pounds paying for illegal migrants to have TV licences and trips to the cinema. In a damning dossier compiled by Reform UK’s waste-buster squad, Kent County Council spent at least £1,000 on footing the £174.50 bill for small boat arrivals to watch the … Read more