Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party From MPs and donors to the backroom team, key players around the leader Nigel Farage The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2025
First MPs U-turn on support for assisted dying bill after High Court judge safeguard removed Exclusive: The Independent has seen a list of 142 MPs who voted in favour of assisted dying at second reading and could now change their vote as a result of Kim Leadbeater’s amendment The Independent UK · Feb 11, 2025
Someone identifying as llama could be put in straitjacket, Reform UK MP suggests Lee Anderson questioned if someone identifying as a llama, who then becomes ill, should ask for a ‘doctor, a vet or a straitjacket’. Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2025
Reform UK MPs call for ‘national debate’ on the death penalty after Southport killer sentenced One MP for Nigel Farage’s party, Lee Anderson, posted a picture of a noose on his X account, adding: ‘No apologies here. This is what is required!’, while prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said Rudakubana would ‘likely never be released’ The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2025
UK government to crack down on MPs earning extra cash from media firms Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage are among those who have earned large sums from broadcasters, but a tightening of rules on MPs’ outside interests is being considered The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2025
Ian Hislop praised for ‘perfect’ takedown of ‘contradiction-riddled’ Elon Musk ‘Have I Got News for You’ star and ‘Private Eye’ editor didn’t hold back when tearing into tech billionaire The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2025
Reform MPs including Nigel Farage paid thousands by Elon Musk’s X for posting on site The scheme has been branded an ‘unholy alliance’ between the right wing and billionaire Musk The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2025
MP subject to abuse as child ‘appalled’ by members ‘weaponising’ grooming Liberal Democrat Josh Babarinde said the discussion around a national investigation into child sexual abuse is being used as ‘political football’. Evening Standard · Jan 6, 2025
‘Picture Nigel Farage as PM’: jubilant Reform UK dares to dream at East of England conference Members urged to feel party’s momentum – but some remain aware of the obstacles ahead The Guardian - UK · Jan 4, 2025
Farage calls out Badenoch directly on Reform UK membership at conference On Boxing Day, Ms Badenoch wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Reform UK’s online membership ticker was ‘a fake, coded to tick up automatically’. Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2025
MPs denied chance to hail Prince Andrew’s spycatching heroics Duke of York’s decades of playing everyone’s useful idiot – all for the good of the country – were off-limits in the Commons The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024
Matt Forde at Bloomsbury Theatre review: firing on all cylinders 4/5 After extensive treatment for cancer, Forde is very much back in the game Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2024
Builder plugs hole in £250k house with Costa coffee cup A DAD who discovered a hole on the outside wall of his brand new £250,000 home had been filled with a Costa coffee cup is calling for an… The National (Scotland) · Nov 27, 2024
Labour urges inquiry into claims Lee Anderson was offered money to join Reform Call for standards commissioner to look into circumstances of former Tory MP’s defection to Reform party The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024
The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2024 Rayner questions Anderson’s CV after he calls chancellor ‘Rachel from accounts’ Angela Rayner questioned Lee Anderson's CV after he called the chancellor "Rachel from accounts."
The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024 ‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024 Congratulations, your serene highness: Starmer, Farage and Lammy call Trump The PM offers warm compliments, Farage a trip to Clacton, and the president-elect tries his best to remember them both
Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2024 Lee Anderson apologises after swearing at parliamentary security officer The Reform UK MP said he had ‘learned significant lessons’ following the incident, where he allegedly told the officer ‘f*** off’.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024 Reform UK’s Lee Anderson apologises for swearing at parliament security guard Watchdog on bullying and harassment finds MP for Ashfield and ex-deputy Tory chair breached behaviour policy
The National (Scotland) · Nov 6, 2024 Lee Anderson rapped after swearing at parliamentary security officer LEE Anderson has been ordered to apologise to the Commons for breaking bullying and harassment rules after a parliamentary watchdog found he twice…
The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2024 Lee Anderson apologises after swearing at security officer when pass didn’t work The Reform UK MP allegedly told the guard ‘f*** off, everyone opens the door to me, you are the only one’ when he was told he needed to have his pass checked at the gates to the Westminster estate
Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2024 Lee Anderson told to apologise after swearing at parliamentary security officer The Reform UK MP allegedly told the guard ‘f*** off, everyone opens the door to me, you are the only one’
Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024 Sadiq Khan: my 10-year plan to clean up London’s rivers – just like its air The Mayor of London sits down with Dylan Jones for a chat about politics, traffic – and his status as an unlikely sex symbol
The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024 Reform’s conference is all blame, grumpiness – and no idea how to fix things Party meeting was part evangelist revival, part Nuremberg rally, with its leader seemingly bored of his own dishonesty
The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024 Farage says Reform can win election as conference leans into hard-right tropes Party will modernise, says leader at Birmingham conference dominated by populist discourse