Reform UK has only taken small proportions of the vote in recent by-elections. But that has not stopped some Conservatives fearing that Mr Tice's party could exploit voter unhappiness over record levels of legal migration, and Channel crossings. Mr Sunak is under pressure after new f...
And there we have it. Lee Anderson has become Reform UK's first member of parliament. The defection will send shockwaves through Westminster, and particularly through the Conservative Party - who only a week ago were trying to seize control of the narrative and boost their dire ...
Lords reform is also pledged by the Green Party, which proposes replacement with an elected second chamber, and the Liberal Democrats (who propose to reform the chamber to have a ‘proper democratic mandate’ but offer no more detail). Reform UK proposes to replace the House of Lords with a...
“The radical reform that would end boom and bust in banking” [12ft]Telegraph.co.uk(Sept. 15, 2010)]. Daniel Hannan, the free market Member of the European Parliament, has also come out in support, in hisTelegraph.co.ukcolumn “Instead of subjecting our financial servi...
As the crisis between Ukraine and Russia heats up, Russian authors have been quick to point out new military deployments by Western powers in the region. American deployments to Poland and Slovakia have been of interest, as well as UK support elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Overall, the articles ...
Despite a huge amount of electoral innovation - the number of electoral systems now in use at various levels of UK governance has doubled from three to six since 1997 - the current UK government remains very conservative about reform at Westminster. The rather inconclusive nature of its 2008 '...
In the UK, there used to be a “Red Wall” of safe Labour seats in the Midlands and north of England, where canvassers for other parties were routinely told “we’ve always voted Labour here” before the door closed. But this began to change during the 2010s. In his 2020 book The ...
Gift Phiri, Daily News Editor, tried to pin down Chamisa with a follow up question. "Let's suppose you don't get the reforms you are pushing for, what will you do?" "We will never accept an election where we don't know where ballot papers are printed. Polling material to...
In response Reform UK said: "Reform UK has all the momentum in British politics. This is shown by the surge in support by younger voters. "We have now surpassed 100,000 members and our polling continues to rise. Young people recognise that the Tories and Labour have failed...
While the results confirmed Labour’s ascendancy ahead of a general election — expected this autumn — Sunak was also rocked by signs that his party is losing support to the anti-immigration Reform UK party. Reform, formerly the Brexit party,secured more than 10 per cent of the votein both...