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Labour has obliterated Reform’s poll lead

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Labour has obliterated Reform’s poll lead

Now that Keir Starmer has gone, the much anticipated ‘Burnham Bounce’ seems to have materialised. If Andy Burnham can keep this momentum going for Labour, it will be bad news for Reform UK and the Green Party. BREAKING | Labour surge to poll LEAD (!) Lab: 28% ( +4 ) Ref: 24% ( -2 ) Con: 22% ( – ) Lib: 12% ( +1 ) Grn: 8% ( -3 ) { Seats } Lab: 246 Con: 128 Ref: 115 Lib: 72 Nat: 59 Grn: 8 Poll: More in Common, 24-27 Jul (+/- vs 22 Jul) pic.twitter.com/AkKoPyIlQf — Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats)…

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Refuge hope police reforms signal the “beginning of a future where women feel protected”

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Refuge hope police reforms signal the “beginning of a future where women feel protected”

As of the 13 July, new regulations have come into effect for all police forces which will impact vetting procedures and suspensions. The government is rolling out the “complex and wide-ranging” rule change as part of its pledge to end violence against women and girls (VAWG). It follows a campaign from the charity Refuge, ‘Remove the Rot’, which kicked off in 2023 and subsequently found a “shocking scale of police-perpetrated VAWG” which meant women and girls could not trust the police to protect them. Refusing to allow there to be no place to turn for justice, the domestic abuse charity pushed…

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Reform’s Manchester mayor candidate is a landlord, because of course

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Reform’s Manchester mayor candidate is a landlord, because of course

Reform UK has announced its candidate for the Greater Manchester Mayor race: Reform UK is delighted to announce Sian Astley as our candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester. Sian has pledged to scrutinise contracts previously awarded by Andy Burnham to firms during his time as Mayor. Greater Manchester is broken. Only Reform will fix it. pic.twitter.com/WGeV1rr9m8 — Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) June 29, 2026 As a woman, Astley won’t have the same problems as the party’s Makerfield candidate – the self-described ‘sexist’ Rob Kenyon. She has another big weakness, though, and it’s that she’s a landlord. Reform don’t care about renters rights Sian Astley is one…

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Reform’s Pochin laughs when questioned on domestic abuse scandal

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Reform’s Pochin laughs when questioned on domestic abuse scandal

On 19 June, Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin attracted controversy when she used the threat of domestic abuse as a rallying cry for the England squad to win. Despite the overwhelming backlash she received, Pochin has since doubled down on the comments: Adding insult to injury, she laughed about it all too. Disturbing from Reform In the offending video, Pochin said: England won the football last night, and thank goodness they did, because on the occasions that England lose their football matches, the incidences of domestic violence go through the roof. So boys, keep winning! Of course, it is important to discuss…

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Reform’s Cunningham complains ‘Restore’ is racist

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Reform’s Cunningham complains ‘Restore’ is racist

Former Tory Laila Cunningham, now a councillor for far-right ‘Reform UK’, has told the hard-right Telegraph that she has received death threats from supporters of even more extreme-right ‘Restore Britain’. Restore supporters don’t like that she is a Muslim. No Muslim should suffer hate for being a Muslim or for the colour of their skin. But Cunningham – also Reform’s candidate in the next London mayoral election – has pandered to white supremacy and Islamophobic race-hate as a campaign tactic. In January 2026, she said that any woman wearing a burqa should be subject to arbitrary stop-and-search, because: It has to…

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Anderson busted using AI to lie about Reform’s Saville controversy

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Anderson busted using AI to lie about Reform’s Saville controversy

On 16 June, we reported on a grim story from the Makerfield by-election concerning Reform. Local Reform councillors posted a picture which suggested they’d vote for Jimmy Saville if it allowed them to replace Keir Starmer. The problem is this means they would vote for Jimmy Saville – one of Britain’s most notorious sexual predators. Since then, Reform have done what they can to distance themselves from the controversy. The problem is their attempts only made things worse. This is why a defensive post from Lee Anderson now looks like this: Reform distraction tactics As we reported on 16 June, Saville…

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

On 2 June, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £200m boost to the Transform prostate cancer treatment trial. However, Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf has chosen to get himself in a tizz about the fact that the potentially life-saving trial is targeting Black people. You know, because Black people suffer from a far higher risk of prostate cancer than white people. But the far-right home affairs spokesperson isn’t letting that little fact stop him. Following party leader Nigel Farage’s current talking point, Yusuf branded the trial as evidence of a “two-tier system” creating a systematic disadvantage for white people.…

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Reform’s Makerfield candidate was a Remainer

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Reform’s Makerfield candidate was a Remainer

Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, is reported to have voted to remain in the European Union. This could be something of a problem too because Reform wouldn’t exist if not for the campaign to leave the EU. NEW: Reform UK's Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon said in 2019 that he did not vote for Brexit "Anyone who thinks I love Trump, voted Brexit… is wrong… I woke up the day after Brexit shitting myself to what was voted for" [@thetimes] — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 26, 2026 Reform Remainiac As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary, Kenyon has links to known…

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Reform’s new overtime tax policy torn to shreds

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Reform’s new overtime tax policy torn to shreds

Reform UK unveiled an attention-grabbing new policy proposal on Sunday 24 May: Reform will scrap income tax on overtime. It's time to make work pay. pic.twitter.com/Q0luvT9WPM — Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 24, 2026 The problem for Reform is that the policy has also grabbed the attention of people who think things through. Reform — “Avoidance opportunities” Sam Dumitriu of the Britain Remade thinktank had 5 points on the new policy: 1. This appears to be an import of Trump’s extremely dumb (but clearly popular) ‘no tax on tips’ policy. 2. If your aim is to boost growth and incentivise work,…

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Reform’s fascist deportation plan ‘to cost £50bn’

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Reform’s fascist deportation plan ‘to cost £50bn’

Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick became unstuck when questioned about his party’s mass deportation plans. As commentators Mukhtar and Saul Staniforth highlighted, however, the focus on cost is frankly disgusting given the human element: Trevor Philips is a weird guy. https://t.co/qMcp4Dw9Je — Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) May 24, 2026 Reform — the cost Host Trevor Phillips put the following to Reform’s Robert Jenrick: [Zia] Yusuf wants to deport 1 billion illegal immigrants. That’s the number he says. The cost of each enforced return at the moment is about £49,000, which means that the cost of your deportation programme would work out at £50 billion.…

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Watch: Reform’s would-be new Kirklees council leader doesn’t understand… anything much

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Watch: Reform’s would-be new Kirklees council leader doesn’t understand… anything much

Kirklees council remains leaderless after councillors were unable to choose at a meeting yesterday; Reform are the biggest party, but short of a majority. Labour was wiped out in this month’s local elections. But the meeting saw some comedy as Reform UK’s would-be leader had to admit that neither she nor her 28 councillors understood what they were voting for. Or anything else, really: @kirkleesgreenparty Councillor Sarah Wood – Reform’s choice to lead Kirklees Council apparently doesn’t understand how the Council runs #huddersfield #westyorkshire ♬ original sound – Kirklees Green Party Reform farce Wood and her party objected that the votes…

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Reform’s Suella Braverman blames Tories for “exodus” of Brits

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Reform’s Suella Braverman blames Tories for “exodus” of Brits

Tory-Reform turncoat, MP Suella Braverman, is angry that Brits are leaving Britain. Falling immigration has not yet filled the void that exists in place of her soul. “The brightest and the best are leaving the UK,” Suella Braverman wrote in response to a Telegraph report featuring immigration stats from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). She noted that the position was untenable. The Telegraph reported that in 2025, 75,000 more Britons aged 16–34 left the UK — the highest number on record since the ONS changed its methodology in 2021. The brightest and the best are leaving the UK. This can’t…

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