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Reform UK

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthUK politics
    Reform UK and Plaid Cymru vie for gains in Labour stronghold of Wales

    Plummeting support for Starmer’s party points to the impact of a cluster of policies that have proven highly unpopular

    FT montage shows Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, a Welsh Labour party rosette and Reform leader Nigel Farage
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Reform UK starts accepting donations in crypto

    Rightwing party says cryptocurrencies will be allowed as a form of tax payment if it wins power

    Nigel Farage speaks into a microphone at the Bitcoin 2025 conference
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s curious swing at Farage

    With no overarching theory of change, the government is hell-bent on avoiding unpopular decisions to improve the state

    Keir Starmer gestures
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils Premium content

    Party faces familiar problem of finding large-scale savings while avoiding unpopular choices

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the party’s campaign launch rally in Birmingham in March
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Labour party UK
    British politics is choice between Labour and Reform, says Starmer

    Nigel Farage’s rightwing populist party is leading in national opinion polls but has just five MPs

    Keir Starmer addressing a group of people, watched by workmen standing in a gallery
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Nigel Farage and the perils of peaking too soon

    With just five MPs, Reform UK is terrorising Westminster but holding a poll lead for four years isn’t easy

    Illustration of Westminster with the waves of the Thames resembling the Reform UK logo
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Do Reform UK’s tax and spending plans add up?

    Nigel Farage’s party has been accused of pursuing ‘fantasy economics’ with its latest policy pledges

    Nigel Farage
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Nigel Farage vows to scrap two-child benefit cap

    Reform UK leader in favour of policy to make it ‘easier’ for lower paid workers to have children

    Nigel Farage
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Farage seizes his opening with benefit cap under pressure

    Labour risks ditching its irreconcilable tax and spend pledges in chaotic, not coherent way

    Bridget Phillipson and Keir Starmer in a classroom with children raising their hands
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    News in-depthNick Candy
    Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s start-up fund lost £100mn over a decade

    Luxembourg outfit founded in 2014 backed failed businesses including augmented reality and fashion groups

    Nick Candy and his wife at a Reform UK party’s annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    UK politics
    Farage pledges to lift child benefit cap as Labour tensions mount

    Policy introduced by Tories blocks parents from claiming subsidies for more than two children

    Nigel Farage with supporters
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK politics
    Reform UK’s first week running local government

    Rightwing populist group has inherited acute financial crises after election wins across England

    Darren Grimes speaking in Durham county council’s chambers
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    Reform UK promises North Sea licences for taxpayer stakes in oil projects

    Richard Tice pledges ‘day one’ reversal of net zero policies if his party wins next general election

    Richard Tice
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    North East England
    Reform mayor backs pro-green investment partnership

    Luke Campbell joins northern partnership with clean energy focus despite party’s anti-net zero stance

    Luke Campbell
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Jennifer Dixon
    How health inequality in the UK maps on to political upheaval

    Tackling deprivation and illness in neglected places could be the prescription for beating Nigel Farage

    A woman rides a mobility scooter in Jaywick, Essex. In some regions, people can expect to live in good health only until their early fifties
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK local government finance
    Gauging Reform UK’s pension power

    How to move funds and influence people

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    UK public policy
    Keir Starmer considers partial retreat on winter fuel cuts

    UK government figures say the policy was widely blamed for Labour’s losses in this month’s local elections

    Pensioners protest against the withdrawal of winter fuel payment outside Downing Street in London in February 2025
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    UK social mobility
    In charts: Reform stands to gain in England’s ‘left behind’ areas

    Towns and cities with the lowest social mobility offer the party the most electoral promise, analysis shows

    School children during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    News in-depthLabour party UK
    ‘Not what Labour stands for’: Can Starmer contain growing anger?

    UK premier set to face biggest House of Commons rebellion in vote on cuts to disability and incapacity benefits

    Montage of chancellor Rachel Reeves and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster in the background
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Rupert Lowe will not face charges over Reform UK bullying claims

    Met Police close investigation into alleged threats against party chair

    Rupert Lowe
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

    To reduce inflows of foreign workers, Labour must address the shortages that drove them

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks in Downing Street
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Public sector pensions
    Brace for Reform UK’s war on ‘woke’ pension investments

    Farage & Co could make a big splash at the pool party

    Montage shows Reform leader Nigel Farage against a data backdrop
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Political Fix podcast44 min listen
    Ask Political Fix: Trade, tax and leftwing pacts

    Your questions answered

  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Ask Shrimsley: Do I tell my friends I voted Reform?

    I’ve been to numerous events recently where someone is bursting to tell everyone how they voted

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    The foreign landscape of British politics

    There may no longer be space for two major parties of the traditional middle after Reform’s disruption

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Big Ben’s clock tower melting under a hazy sky
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