Yahoo News Nigel Farage: Wheels may not have come off Reform UK leader's bandwagon yet - but it's more shaky and wobbly
Was this the day the wheels began to come off for Nigel Farage's Reform UK bandwagon? Quite possibly.
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Sky NewsNigel Farage rules out joining Conservatives and says he wants nothing to do with them
Nigel Farage has ruled out joining the Tory party saying he wants "nothing to do with them". Mr Farage has previously told Sky News this was "not on my agenda" but did not categorically reject the idea when pressed repeatedly. Speaking today to Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby, he said the party he currently leads is "a new political movement" and "I want nothing to do with them [the Conservatives]".
- Evening Standard
Three Reform UK candidates dropped after Nigel Farage quizzed over offensive comments
The trio were criticsed by their party leader on the BBC.
- PA Media: UK News
Election campaign day 38: Farage at centre of media storm
Here are the main developments in the General Election campaign on Saturday.
- PA Media: UK News
TikTok suspended livestream of Reform UK rally ‘due to moderation error’
A spokesperson for the social media platform said the temporary suspension was due to a ‘moderation error’.
- The Independent
Failed Tory project fear drove voters to Labour and Reform, poll reveals
New poll reveals Tory project fear failed but postal votes may give Sunak hope
- HuffPost UK
Nigel Farage Rages After Putin Prank Disrupts Reform UK Rally
"Someone needs to get the sack," the party leader fumed.
- The Guardian
Burna Boy at Glastonbury review – Afro-fusion maestro starts Pyramid stage party
The Nigerian brings an electrifying energy and prompts a mass singalong accompaniment to his signature baritone
- Business Insider
Deadly Russian Su-34 bombers are sitting ducks for Ukraine's ATACMS. But it can't attack without US approval.
Some of Russia's deadly Su-34 fighter bombers lie exposed on the tarmac of a military airfield just 100 miles from the border with Ukraine.
- The Telegraph
Reform UK pledges to ‘Make Britain Great Again’ as Farage channels Trump
Puff! Flash! Bang! Nigel Farage almost danced between smoke and sparklers at the last Reform UK rally of the campaign, an entertaining extravaganza that was pure Donald Trump.
- PA Media: UK News
Farage claims ‘bad apples are gone’ from Reform UK amid racism row
The party leader said he would ‘never have them back’ following the withdrawal of support for three candidates.
- HuffPost UK
Trevor Phillips Destroys Nigel Farage With One Devastating Question
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
- HuffPost UK
Rishi Sunak Left Squirming As He's Confronted With Ordinary People's Lives In Tory Britain
The prime minister had insisted life was "better" now than when the party came to power in 2010.
- The Telegraph
Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
- CNN
Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead
When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.
- The Telegraph
A Labour landslide would leave the UK unrecognisable
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.
- CNN
A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
- The Daily Beast
Obama Rode to Biden’s Rescue—but Intervention Could Yet Come
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
- Manchester Evening News
'My mortgage has doubled... the country's gone to pot': The Greater Manchester neighbourhood where people want change
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
- The Telegraph
The Conservatives are paying the terrible price for Britain’s lockdown amnesia
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.
- The Telegraph
Why the French state pension is about to bring down Macron
Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reforms have loomed over his second presidential term – and could now be his undoing.