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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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‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’
Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour’s local elections defeats
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Sadiq Khan Interview: ‘I Know I’m Clickbait, I Know I’m Being Monetised’
The London Mayor talks to Byline Times about how ten years of rising algorithmic online hate has transformed our politics and put his own safety at risk
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‘Labour’s Leader Must Change Not Just Because Keir Starmer Is Unpopular, but Because of What Made Him Unpopular’
Replacing Keir Starmer won’t be enough to solve the far deeper problems of how a Labour Government lost the trust of the British people, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Rick Wilson’s Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now
The former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder has some hard lessons for Conservatives and Labour alike
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‘Andy Burnham’s Return to Westminster Would Be About National Resilience’
The media psychodrama about Burnham’s potential return to Parliament misses a far more serious point, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Local Election Results 2026: Morgan McSweeney’s ‘Blue Labour’ Legacy Lives On
Keir Starmer’s former adviser’s strategy of focusing on Reform-sympathetic ‘hero voters’, whilst spurning Labour’s natural supporters on the left, has led to a disastrous set of local election results for the party, reports Adam Bienkov
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Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth
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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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‘There Is No Land Called Palestine’: The Reform Pastor Preaching the End Times in Coventry
Reform candidate John Quintanilla tells his congregation that Islam brings “darkness” and the existence of Palestine is a “media lie”
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Exclusive Poll: Half of Labour’s Voters Set to Abandon Party in England as Keir Starmer’s ‘London Wall’ Crumbles
Support for Labour and the Conservatives set to fall severely at Thursday’s local elections, as Reform and the Greens make gains, an exclusive Omnisis poll for Byline Times suggests
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Reform UK Candidate Shared Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Posts And Campaigned for Far-Right Restore Britain
Caspar Thomas, who Nigel Farage’s party says has now been expelled following inquiries by Byline Times and HOPE not hate, shared posts including grossly offensive racist slurs
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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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Nigel Farage’s Foreign Policy Chief Hosted Pro-Trump Think Tank Promoting Tariffs and Greenland Invasion
Alan Mendoza brought together serving British generals to the event where material was distributed endorsing the seizure of NATO-owned territory
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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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‘Reform UK Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone’: My Experience Being Hounded to Stand for Nigel Farage’s Party
Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices
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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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‘The Mandelson Scandal Shows how Labour Became Part of the Establishment It Once Existed to Challenge’
The departure of the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney – over his appointment of ally Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador – does not change the systemic culture absorbed by the party which allowed his rise, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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‘I Set Up a Fake Far-Right News Channel to Interview Reform UK Candidates and This Is What They Told Me’
The Reform hopefuls were quick to condemn scandals supposedly overseen by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, without realising they were actually condemning the actions of their own 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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All The Kings’ Horses and All the Kings’ Men Can’t Put the US-UK ‘Special Relationship’ Together Again
It will take far more than some clever speechifying from the King to repair the deep damage the US President has done to relations with his country’s former closest ally, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Robert Jenrick’s Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme
Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP’s Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based investor who pled guilty to fraud
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‘If Anyone Can Become an Englishman, What is an Englishman?’: Reform UK’s James Orr on the ‘Great Replacement’
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy endorsed extremist ‘Great Replacement’ theory, called for the reversal of a quarter-century of British migration, and named himself UK chair of a pan-European far-right alliance, in conversation with now deceased ‘MAGA’ activist Charlie Kirk.
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Nigel Farage Promotes Reform UK Donor’s Pothole Repair Machine on Election Leaflets
The promotions of JCB’s flagship ‘Pothole Pro’ followed hundreds of thousands of pounds being gifted to the party
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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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Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership
Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network
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Conservatives Stand Tommy Robinson-Supporting Candidate Who Called Boris Johnson a ‘Traitorous Scumbag’
Nathan Smith said the former Conservative leader would be “jailed the second we take power” as he backed far-right Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe as “the only MP fighting for us”
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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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The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends – and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
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Economists Slam Reform UK’s ‘Fantasy’ Claims That ‘Boriswave’ Migrants Will Cost Households £20,000
“Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts
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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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EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.
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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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Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’
EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months
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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
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Reform UK Energy Prize Winners Had Nominated Party’s Own Branch Chair
As Greater Manchester Police confirm they are reviewing a complaint into the prize draw, Byline Times can reveal that the party’s Wigan branch chair – nominated by the winners – was present at the doorstep prize ceremony
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The Green Party Has No National Binding Rules on Selecting Local Candidates
Exclusive: A formal complaint exposes the absence of any nationally-binding selection rules in the Green Party. Zack Polanski has admitted it is a “real challenge” to vet its local election candidates
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14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements designed to improve people’s lives across the UK
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From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses
Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don’t we hear more about them?
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Greens Could Be ‘Kingmakers’ in Wales as Leader Reveals Power-Sharing Demands
EXCLUSIVE: Welsh Green leader says the party’s support in a potential coalition “doesn’t come free”
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Liz Truss Appointed by Trump to Dismantle the ‘Deep Space Blob’
“The President is a big fan of the Prime Minister’s YouTube channel,” the White House Press Secretary told reporters
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Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights
Even voters in Nigel Farage’s own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests
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Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives
The Conservative party, which calls the Government’s plans for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy “crazy” has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby groups
