Reform UK is a right-wing populist British political party led by Nigel Farage, campaigning on immigration, Brexit-related issues, and deregulation.
Liberal Democrats asked Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to act on smart glasses after a Reform member's five-minute Senedd speech drew teleprompter suspicions. Parliament's own review is meant to balance security and privacy against accessibility.
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Farage's longtime private pollster Chris Bruni-Lowe held an influential, unpublicised role at Redfield & Wilton Strategies, the Guardian reports. The firm's owner denies any institutional or financial relationship with Farage or Reform UK, so whether the tie touched a published poll is not yet established.
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Freshwater Strategy polling for City AM finds 44% back Labour's triple lock change and 55% back the Tory inheritance tax pledge. Both are party pledges for the next election, and the 1,235-voter poll was fielded on 9 to 11 October 2026.
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Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
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Andy Burnham's Labour held Keir Starmer's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras with 12,292 votes to 8,928 for Green leader Zack Polanski. Reuters called the win a boost for the prime minister, who took office after Starmer was ousted in July.
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Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes and let couples leave an extra £1m tax-free. For owner-operators planning succession, it stays an opposition promise until the party wins power and passes it into law.
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Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith wants Natural England and the Environment Agency abolished in a package the Tories say cuts up to £50,000 off a new home. Until an election, firms still plan against the government's rules and its 28 October Budget.
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Kemi Badenoch would cut UK aid from £9bn to £1bn a year, below the more than £1.6bn Britain has already committed to the UN, World Bank and health funds. Those settlements run for several years, so a Conservative government would have to break them or overshoot its own cap.
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UK polling shows 74% of people now say they have directly experienced extreme heat, up from 46% before the record 2026 summer. Concern rose sharply, but support for specific climate policies moved only a few points.
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Tory shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith will pledge to scrap the Environment Agency and Natural England and replace two developer obligations with one levy. With the party polling third, the pledges bind no one yet but name the rules a Conservative government would remove.
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Nigel Farage was questioned for about half an hour by the standards commissioner over a 5 million pound gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. The ruling depends on whether money he says paid for his personal security counts as support for his job as an MP.
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Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez welcomed the idea of Britain rejoining the EU after Prime Minister Andy Burnham raised it in a speech. Sterling holders are still waiting on London, because a welcome from two EU capitals commits Britain to nothing.
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Sixty-three percent of UK adults report high trust in scientists, but the attitude most closely tied to that trust is whether scientists seem to be on their side, and that perception splits Reform supporters from Greens by 39 points.
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Ben Delo's gift to Nigel Farage's party is reported as the largest ever made to a British political party. It arrived as one lump sum, because a monthly stream could have been caught by the crypto donation ban Labour MPs are weighing.
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Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave Nigel Farage's party 36 million pounds in a weekend, more than every UK party raised in donations all last year, and Delo's monthly pledge was handed over up front.
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A King's College London study with YouGov measures how far British beliefs about the capital's crime and Muslim population are from the recorded figures, and finds the errors run in opposite directions by party.
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The party would swap the UK GDPR for a New Zealand-style law that caps penalties at NZ$50,000, and its press release says Brussels would keep waving British data through without explaining why that holds.
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