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Advance UK’s ‘Great British’ Successor Group Refuses to Rule Out Foreign Funding
Exclusive: GB PAC, chaired by Ben Habib, says it “may receive lawful financial support” from abroad as it takes over Advance UK’s political operation
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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
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Talk TV Host André Walker Found Guilty of Assaulting Climate Protester at Pro-Trump Dinner
Presenter at Rupert Murdoch-owned station assaulted protester and NHS doctor Kush Naker, a judge finds
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson
A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers’ market has brought Russia’s deliberate targeting of civilians, which Byline first revealed two years ago, to global attention, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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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
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Talk TV Presenter Dragged Climate Activist Into Room and Assaulted Him During Pro-Trump Dinner, Court Told
André Walker denies assault by beating over incident at Republicans Overseas gala dinner during Trump’s state visit to the UK
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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
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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
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Tommy Robinson’s Temple: The Christian Conference Uniting Preachers from the Far-Right Fringe
Organisers of the “Make Great Britain Christian Again” conference include preachers linked to far-right rallies, prompting warnings that faith is being used to provide moral cover for nationalist politics
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Andy Burnham Faces ‘First Test’ Over Palestine Action Ban This Week
Defend Our Juries is urging supporters to escalate from simple placard offences to charges carrying up to 14 years in prison, in a direct challenge to Andy Burnham’s new Government
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News UK Keeps André Walker on Air Despite Talk Presenter’s Assault Trial Over Trump Dinner Clash
EXCLUSIVE: André Walker, accused of assault by beating over a clash with a Fossil Free London activist during the President’s state visit, continues to front shows for the Murdoch-owned station
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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Inside Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain With Neo-Nazis, Reform Defectors and Associated Rogues
From white supremacist donors to Hitler sympathisers, Restore Britain’s council-level operations reveal a party struggling to conceal its extremes
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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
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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 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
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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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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
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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
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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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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?
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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
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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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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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Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows
The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson
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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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Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government
A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK’s supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton
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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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Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Won’t Stop With Antifa
The sentences handed down to protestors at an immigration detention centre were all more severe than even the longest prison sentence given to any of the January 6 insurrectionists
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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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Elon Musk Amplifies Tommy Robinson’s Call to Expel Half of All British Muslims in Speech Staged by Neo-Nazi Linked Group
The demand for the expulsion of millions of Muslim people from the UK received 36 million views after being shared by Musk on his X platform
