SubscriptionsCategory: UK Politics
-
Raft of Senior Reform Councillors Fail to Declare Interests
Four Reform councillors – including the council’s deputy leader and two serving cabinet members – amended their registers of interests within days of Byline Times querying undeclared firms and shareholdings
-
Reform’s First 100 Days in Norfolk: ‘Flag Fights, Resignations, Broken Promises’
A newly-elected Labour councillor charts 100 days of a Reform-run county council – scrapped funds, a resigned chief executive, a lost by-election, and not much sign of the ‘laser focus on value for money’
-
Gold Firm That Employs Nigel Farage Predicts Unrest and Violence Under a Reform Government
Exclusive: Promo material for Direct Bullion tells savers a Farage-led government could spark riots not seen since the poll tax – while paying the Reform leader hundreds of thousands of pounds
-
‘A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’
The climate crisis can’t be solved without a commitment to fighting injustice at the same time – Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, sat down with Byline Times’ Editor in Chief to explain why
-
‘Irrational, Ineffective, Dangerous’: French Inquiry Condemns UK Border Policy
£648 million of UK taxpayers’ money sent to France has gone unaccounted for since 2018, with a further £660 million due to be spent by 2029.
-
USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’
Exhaustion, low morale, ‘starvation’ rations and broken equipment: Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power
-
Wine, Vapes And ‘Woke Mental Health’ Jibes: Leaked Emails Expose Reform Council Meltdown
Exclusive: Leaked messages from Durham County Council’s Reform administration reveal in-fighting, resignations and a leadership accused of belittling mental health issues
-
Is Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution?
The Prime Minister has just opened the door to a radical change to how we are governed, writes Anthony Barnett. Will he now walk through it?
-
Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only
The party’s founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him
-
UK Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million
Documents obtained by Byline Times reveal how a Conservative MP whose office is housed in a building owned by the firm, lobbied officials to push through the deal
-
Reform’s Nadhim Zahawi Accused of ‘Fantasy’ After Falsely Claiming Labour-Backer Dale Vince Bankrolled Count Binface
The former Chancellor told ITV viewers that Dale Vince gave Count Binface hundreds of thousands of pounds for his Clacton campaign. Both say this is completely false
-
Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
-
A Police Report, Legal Threats and a Splinter Party: Inside the Demise of Advance UK
Byline Times reveals the criminal complaint and data protection dispute surrounding the collapse of the rival party to Reform UK
-
Nigel Farage Reported to Met Police Over Alleged Misconduct in Public Office
The Reform UK leader’s non-disclosure of a £5 million ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire could amount to a criminal offence, leading democracy groups allege
-
Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’ Because ‘The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It’
EXCLUSIVE: “If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the leaked internal training course warn its members
-
Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain’s ‘Billionaire Media’
Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons “literally buying democracy”
-
Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’?
Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon
-
Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In
Cllr Paul Mackings’ consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate
-
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
-
Far-Right Homeland Party’s Crypto Donations Revealed
Two Bitcoin donations landed just short of the £500 threshold that triggers donor checks, raising questions about how closely the funds were monitored
-
Green Leader Zack Polanski Calls for ‘Reset’ in Relations With Labour Party Under Andy Burnham
Polanski says he is open to working with Labour’s more ‘left-wing’ leader Andy Burnham, following years of “toxic” relations between the two parties under Keir Starmer
-
How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage’s criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
-
‘It’s Trump, Not Ed Miliband Who Is the Source of the UK’s Transatlantic Problems’
The first job of the Foreign Secretary is to stand up for Britain’s interests, not to appease a President trying to undermine them, argues former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
-
Elections Watchdog Assesses Reform UK’s £30,000 Private Flights Donation
Exclusive: Watchdog escalates inquiry into Nigel Farage’s party amid questions over whether the true source of the money was concealed
-
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party’s treasurer vetting donations
-
The Business of War: Who Really Benefits From Britain’s Planned Military Spending Surge?
As the Government gears up for a military spending bonanza, Iain Overton asks whether Britain is really defending its territory, or simply the profits of the global defence industry
-
Growing Number of Councils Speak Out Against Palantir’s NHS Data Deal
Local authorities are piling on the pressure on Andy Burnham to scrap the Government’s £330 million contract with the US tech firm
-
From Steel Nationalisation to Plug-In Solar: Keir Starmer’s Final Acts in Government
The outgoing PM sneaked a lot of significant announcements out just before he left office
-
Reform UK’s £30,000 Donation in Private Flights was Secretly Funded by Owner’s ‘Credit’
A Byline Times investigation raises questions about whether the true source of the money went undeclared by Nigel Farage’s party
-
Andy Burnham’s Cabinet Represents Starmerism Without Starmer
The new Prime Minister promised radical change, yet his picks for the Cabinet tell a very different story, argues Adam Bienkov
-
Andy Burnham Making Shabana Mahmood Chancellor Would Resurrect the Failed Politics of Morgan McSweeney
If the incoming Prime Minister does buckle to media and city pressure not to appoint Ed Miliband as Chancellor it will be an ominous sign of things to come, argues Adam Bienkov
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
-
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
-
Who Is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain
Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
-
How Jordan Peterson Is Importing Australia’s Racist Politics Into Britain
The same organisation shaping Reform UK’s rise, is steering a potential far-right coalition down under, reports Lucy Hamilton
-
A Hostile Foreign State Could ‘Buy A UK Election For Just £25m’
A former UK diplomat who spent a decade tracking Russian influence operations explains how open our politics is to foreign capture
-
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
-
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
-
James Orr: Reform UK’s Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
