The biggest changes to the electoral donations laws in 40 years risk undermining democracy by favouring the major parties ...

A 63-year-old retiree is refusing to pay her local council tax over plans to overhaul local government by replacing the ...

Elon Musk has reportedly downplayed the possibility of giving a donation to Reform UK in humiliation for Nigel Farage. The tech billionaire has told an associate that it will be difficult to pump ...

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Anita Stanley remembers the moment she discovered Reform UK. She was invited along to the ... equivalent to a national vote share of 14.3%. In the West Midlands, they outperformed that with ...

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Tory voters are split on whether the party should merge with Reform UK before the next general election ... third place with just 22 per cent of the vote. What's more, when asked who would ...

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The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said he “can’t control” people defecting to Reform UK after his most senior ... warned against casting a ‘protest vote’ for Reform earlier ...

A leading Scottish Conservative councillor has defected to Reform UK, just days after his party leader Russell Findlay admitted he feared an exodus of his members to Nigel Farage's party. Thomas Kerr, ...

Voting Reform in Scotland will only benefit SNP, warns Scottish Tory leader Why Scottish Tories cannot defeat Nigel Farage's Reform UK by copying ... amounts to a protest vote", saying this ...