#reform-uk

#reform-uk

When our councillors decide to change parties part way through their term of office, they should resign so that an election is held. Most people intend their vote for a party in the election, rather than for the particular person standing. So, if someone decides to change party part way through their term it's only fair that they should resign and, if they like, stand again in their new colours.

I'm anticipating a teachers' strike very quickly after winning the next general election, he said during a question and answer session at the event last month. They are poisoning our kids. They are telling them to be ashamed of their country. They are telling little Johnny, who's eight, who is black, that he is a victim and little Oliver, who is white, who is eight, that he is an oppressor. They are dividing us, not uniting us. They are feeding this negative culture in.

Reform rushed out an announcement on indefinite leave to remain - they hadn't done the actual work. All of a sudden lots of Europeans with settled status didn't know what was going to happen to them. I make sure that when I announce something I think about how it is going to impact people. Winning elections without a plan is what got us into trouble, it is why Labour is floundering and that is what Reform will deliver. I said I want to do politics differently - doing it differently means being patient and taking our time to get it right.

Atherton told the BBC she had joined Reform because of her concerns over a "loss of national identity and pressure on public services". She added that she had "had enough of 26 years of decline in Wales under a Labour and Plaid Cymru pact". Atherton added that she worried "like millions of others" about the direction the UK was heading.

Danny Kruger was already looking very queasy when he was sat at the back for the Reform press conference in which Nigel Farage revealed his plans for mass deportations of legal migrants. Then on Wednesday, it fell to him to go on the news channel to say that when Zia Yusuf had repeatedly said that Keir Starmer was a terrorist who was plotting to kill Farage, he had actually meant something entirely different.

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During his speech the prime minister attacked "lies" that are being told about Britain and mocked figures who sought to portray London as "the wasteland of anarchy". His comments come only days after US President Donald Trump claimed that London had "changed" and would "go to sharia law" as part of an ongoing feud with the capital's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan.

The UK should import US scientists whose cancer research projects have been cut by Donald Trump, Ed Davey will argue at a Liberal Democrat conference that has focused heavily on how the party can respond to hard-right populism. In his closing speech, Davey will also criticise Nigel Farage, saying the Reform UK conference applauded the Trump administration's decision to slash funding for mRNA vaccines, which are being trialled as a way to offer personalised immunotherapy treatment for some cancers.