Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calls for migrant crossings to be deemed a “national security emergency” after visiting Dover to highlight the number of migrants arriving in the UK on small boats. .
NIGEL Farage has claimed that he has done more “than anybody else alive” to combat the far-right in the UK.
Anti-immigration British politician Nigel Farage on Friday criticized a worker for his Reform UK party who suggested migrants crossing the English Channel in boats should be used for “target practice.” Party activist Andrew Parker was heard suggesting army recruits with guns should be posted to “just shoot” migrants landing on beaches, in recordings made by an undercover reporter from Channel 4. Another campaign worker called the LGBT pride flag “degenerate.”
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Grandfather Robert Blackstock, a retired engineer from Nottinghamshire, became the “Brenda from Bristol” of this election campaign when he asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during Wednesday night’s TV debate: “Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?”
It was finally Nigel Farage’s time to appear before a BBC Question Time audience this evening, more than a week after Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer had theirs. The Reform UK leader took the podium in the same hour as a Green Party representative, Adrian Ramsay. Yet only one of these men has excited reaction from our writers.
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
Until now, Sir Keir Starmer has carefully hidden the Labour Party’s radical, hard-Left agenda from the public. But on the brink of the largest majority in nearly a century, his mask has slipped.
The "Daily Show" host said "this cannot be real life" after Thursday night's TV matchup between the current president and the former one.
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
Reform has been dogged by allegations over racism, misogyny, homophobia and support for Hitler and Putin but a poll has put them three points ahead of the Tories
Now might be a good time for Dr Jill Biden, the First Lady, to have a rummage around in the back of the wardrobe for one particular item of clothing. When Joe Biden opted against running for president in 2004, his decision was underlined by his wife’s decision to wear a halter top with the word “NO” scrawled on her stomach.
On Friday afternoon, in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, private murmurs and public calls for an “intervention” ricocheted through Democratic circles. But then a hold-up emerged.Some 17 hours after Biden botched his big debate moment, his former boss came to the rescue.For many high-ranking Democrats, a single tweet from former President Barack Obama appeared to nix any chance of the 44th president meeting with the 46th and urging him to drop out.Rea
In France, politics is happening at a ferocious pace.
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
Hezbollah may be using Cyprus as a "stand-in" to threaten a nearby NATO country, a regional expert said.
The “nein”, “non” or just a plain old “no way” has already been uttered. As France prepares for its most significant election in at least a decade, with its leading parties committed to increasing the government’s already lavish spending, Christian Lindner, the German finance minister, has made one point clear: France is not going to get a bailout, and certainly not from its close neighbours.
On Tuesday, the BBC led with a report about personal protective equipment (PPE) worth nearly £1.5 billion going unused. It was, we were told in scandalised tones, rotting away in warehouses.
Donald Trump’s allies were like Cheshire cats as they celebrated in the spin room backstage at the TV debate in Atlanta on Thursday night.
The pair clashed over whether or not Liz Truss caused of the jump in inflation.
Labour plans to force public bodies to put middle-class people at the back of the queue for taxpayer-funded services including policing, schools and refuse collection, its opponents claim.
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