SubscriptionsAuthor: Josiah Mortimer
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MPs Bid to End ‘Royal Secrecy’ and Open the Crown Up to Scrutiny
Proposed bill would strip the King and his heirs of their blanket Freedom of Information exemptions — as royal biographer describes a decade of blocked requests and redactions
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Reform Withdrew Sworn Denials from Richard Tice in Good Law Project Data Privacy Case
Reform’s Deputy Leader accused of being “cavalier with the truth” as it withdraws its earlier denials in data privacy case
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Reform Wrongly Claims Party’s Elections Language Ban ‘Would Not Apply To Gaelic’ – Before Saying They’ll Rewrite Plans
Nigel Farage’s party hit by outrage after Byline Times revealed its plans would mean candidates being jailed for up to six months for using Gaelic, Irish or Cornish on election leaflets
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Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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The UK Allows Former Politicians To Break Lobbying Rules With Impunity. That Could Be About To Change
The free-for-all in which former Government ministers are able to cash in on their connections, with little to no scrutiny, could be about to end, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Parliament’s Standards Watchdog Rejected Complaints About Farage’s ‘Hidden Property Empire’ Months Before Times Exposé
It exposes a glaring loophole in Parliamentary transparency rules, reports Josiah Mortimer
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The Missing Part Of Keir Starmer’s Plan To Clamp Down On Foreign Election Meddling
The UK Government has announced a series of major reforms designed to prevent foreign interference in our politics, yet campaigners fear they have left the “biggest loophole” of all untouched
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‘There’s No Money In Politics If You’re Straight’: How Farage’s Words Are Coming Back To Haunt Him
The Reform UK leader once claimed that only the corrupt could make money in politics. Now questions about his own multi-million pound fortune threaten to bring him down
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Reform UK Donations From Collapsing Firms Are ‘Not Under Investigation’ Says Elections Watchdog as It Calls for Loopholes to Be Closed
Anti-corruption campaigners warn the UK’s political system is open to abuse and infiltration by unlawful foreign finance
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Keir Starmer’s Promised Clampdown on Second Jobs Has Been ‘Glacial’ Admits Minister, as Nigel Farage’s Millions Come Under Spotlight
The Reform leader’s multiple outside jobs and repeated absence from the House of Commons has led to calls for action
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Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’
The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to “serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous, far-right rhetoric”
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Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week
New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians’ homes
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Is Britain’s Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away?
Ministers are consulting on rules that will let households plug cheap solar panels straight into their mains. But several big questions remain unanswered, reports Josiah Mortimer
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How Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ Could Really Reshape Britain
A new report from key backers of Britain’s likely next Prime Minister sets out what a Burnham Government might look like
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Police Admit Error After Failing to Seize Phone of Reform Councillor Arrested Over Stalking Claims
Essex police privately accepts device should have been taken from Reform Cllr Sam Journet rather than handed to a political ally
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Reform Chairman Bans Green Councillor From Calling Out ‘Neo Nazi’ Photograph
Party accused of curbing free speech after silencing Green councillor who raised Reform councillors’ appearance with neo-Nazi figure
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Pubs Shut and Streets Close Amid Heavy Police Presence for Oxford Union Tommy Robinson Debate
The world’s most prestigious debating society hosts the far-right agitator just days after his return from Moscow and questioning under anti-terror legislation
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GB News Presenter Denied Racist Violence in Belfast Was a ‘Riot’ and Claimed ‘Not a House Has Been Burnt Down’
Bev Turner told her viewers that the Belfast violence amounted to mere ‘skirmishes’ despite hundreds of masked men terrorising migrants and ethnic minority people in the city
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Andy Burnham Backs Political Donations Cap to Stop ‘Undue Influence’ by Big Money Donors
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Ministerial hopeful backs calls to stop billionaire donors from buying our politics, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer’s Government
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Keir Starmer Urged to Stop London Event ‘Promoting Land Grab’ in Occupied Palestine
Human rights groups urge ministers to shut down ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’, promoting sales in illegally occupied West Bank settlements
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Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms
Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself
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Criminal Checks for MPs, Donations Caps and Electoral Reform: Labour Rebels Push for Tougher Elections Bill
From banning crypto and oil company cash to radical reform of our voting system, Labour backbenchers are testing how far their own Government is willing to go to protect British democracy, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Anger Over Oxford Union’s Tommy Robinson Invite Amid Suggestions of GB News Deal
The Union now denies that GB News— whose presenter Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg sits as a trustee of the Union’s governing charity — is set to film the far-right activist’s appearance, but concerns remain
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media is Missing During Keir Starmer’s Leadership Crisis
No 10 says its plan for the UK is starting to work but will anyone hear about it?
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Reform-Run Council Cuts Opposition Time to ‘Make Way’ for Lord’s Prayer and National Anthem
Christian Nationalism in action: “prayers and songs prioritised over a water catastrophe” claim opposition councillors
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Reform Council Sacks Long-Serving Vicar as Standards Chief, in Wave of Cuts to Scrutiny
Reverend Canon Hilary Barber says he was given no warning or thanks by Nigel Farage’s party for his years of service
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Reform UK’s ‘Meta Glasses’ Councillor Who Was Accused of Shaming Disabled Man and Dyslexic Colleague Is Put in Charge of Special Educational Needs
Sam Journet has been accused of bullying, intimidation and filming residents and staff with Meta-style camera glasses
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Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data
Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham’s show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case
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Reform UK Councillors Told to Speak Only to GB News’ as Party Shuns Local Press
Local news editor in Ipswich says Reform party chair instructed his councillors to shut out the press in favour of only speaking to the right-wing news channel
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Toxic Pesticides Could Be Banned From UK Farms as Government Urged to Align With EU Rules
Ministers are considering a new report by a cross-party body which recommends closer alignment with European rules on limiting the use of harmful chemicals in our agriculture
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10,000 People Sign Official Petition Demanding Government End ‘Capture of UK Democracy by Media Billionaires’
Ministers will be forced to respond to the proposals for a new ‘Media Sovereignty Act’ after campaigners passed a key threshold
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The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week
Voters last Thursday returned dozens of Reform councillors who have variously pushed Islamophobia, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Covid denial and praise for Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as ‘Benefit Scroungers’ and ‘Skanks’
Harry Phillips, who is standing for Nigel Farage’s party in Surrey, allegedly described a constituent and his wife as ‘ponces of society’ in leaked messages seen by Byline Times
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right
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Reform’s Plan to ‘Punish’ Green Voters With Detention Centres is ‘Election Interference’ Complaints Argue
Watchdog asked to investigate after party’s home affairs spokesperson ‘guarantees’ areas electing Reform MPs will be exempt from 24,000-capacity migrant facilities
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Plaid Cymru Leader Says Party Is Prepared for Government as Labour Dominance Collapses in Wales
Rhun ap Iorwerth claims only Plaid Cymru can stop Reform taking power in the Senedd, as he urges Labour and Green voters to back him in a “straight fight” against Farage’s party
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Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform’s bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas
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TUC Deputy Leader Says Labour Must Shout Louder About Workers’ Rights in Order to Beat Reform
Kate Bell says Nigel Farage’s party plans to roll back the Employment Rights Act and Equality Act are deeply unpopular
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Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride
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Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are “an insult” to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic
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Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was ‘Pentagon-Led Plot’ in Conspiracy Theory Journal
Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was “staged” by Western military and intelligence agencies
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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes
Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”
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Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
