How seriously should Reform and the Tories take the new “third force” on the British right? Those who avoid X may not be abreast of this development but Rupert Lowe, the erstwhile Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, is busily engaged in building a new political party to challenge Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch from the far-right. Lowe, a former owner…Read More

Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, committed news yesterday when she called for Andy Burnham to be allowed to run for parliament. In January Burnham was blocked from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election by Labour’s National Executive Committee. NEC officers said that Burnham going to Westminster would create the unnecessary expense of a Greater Manchester mayoralty by-election (they were…Read More