The shadow chancellor Mel Stride has been criticised for claiming that the government wants to reverse Brexit and that it should stop blaming Brexit for the UK’s economic woes.  Delivering the Mais Lecture at Bayes Business School today, Rachel Reeves said “Brexit did deep damage”. She added that although trade deals with India, the US and other allies are “extremely…Read More

Nigel Farage has been accused of having “no interest” in solving the serious problems that councils face, after he said he wishes Reform “hadn’t bothered” taking minority control of ‘bankrupt’ Worcestershire County Council. Unison’s general secretary Andrea Egan said that Farage has “no interest in solving the many and serious problems councils and the country face” and that he is…Read More

A jury at Woolwich Crown Court has refused to convict six Palestine Action activists who broke into Israeli arms factory Elbit Systems on the outskirts of Bristol.  Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were found not guilty of aggravated burglary yesterday. The activists also faced charges of…Read More

The latest Tory to defect to Reform, Welsh Senedd member James Evans, called the party “not a serious party” only a few months ago. In a recent TV debate, Evans slammed Reform for making “unfunded, unrealistic promises” to voters.  He said: “Unfortunately what we see from Reform UK is unfunded, unrealistic promises to the electorate.” Evans added that Nigel Farage’s…Read More

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns almost walked off the Jeremy Vine show after commentator Marina Purkiss asked her about her party’s support for Donald Trump following the release of the Epstein files. Vine had said that allegations about Trump are “horrific and we can’t even say it on the air”. Jenkyns immediately interjected: “If there’s truth in it that’s a different…Read More