Nigel Farage

The right’s fiscal nimbys

For Reform and the Tories, spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters.

By George Eaton

Reform uses Mahmood to recruit members

The insurgent party is trolling the home secretary, and her party

By The Pygge

Shabana Mahmood is wrong

Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government

By Zoe Gardner

PMQs review: Labour briefing wars hand Kemi Badenoch an easy win

When the Prime Minister tried to insist his team was “united”, the House descended into chaos

By Rachel Cunliffe

Reform’s return to Thatcherism

The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading

By George Eaton

How long does Kemi Badenoch have?

Recent polling by Deltapoll found that just 38 per cent of Brits could recognise her in a photograph

By Rachel Cunliffe

Trailing Liz Truss on the Maga speaking circuit

Also this week: reflecting on Wilde, and American political lingo

By Anne McElvoy

Nigel Farage can be stopped

Reform’s onward march is not inevitable. Across the world, progressives are actually winning

By David Lammy

Labour now knows Reform is beatable

Starmer has cast defeating Farage as a moral obligation. So if he falls short, must he make way?

By George Eaton

Has Reform hit a ceiling?

Nigel Farage’s party is in danger of losing momentum

By George Eaton

Caerphilly shows Nigel Farage’s Achilles heel

Tactical voting could lock Reform out of power

By George Eaton

Wine and mussels in Reform’s boozy heartland

Every political movement has its scene. I found Nigel Farage’s in Belgravia

By Finn McRedmond

How Labour can take back control of immigration from Nigel Farage

Skilled immigration would deliver Labour from denial and despair

By Praful Nargund

Does Reform already have more members than Labour?

The figure has become one of Labour’s most closely guarded secrets

By The Pygge

Labour has a Green problem

Zack Polanski’s first month as leader shows he’s the biggest threat Keir Starmer has faced from the left.

By George Eaton

Nigel Farage wasn’t telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform wants to be obstructed by council workers, but it has to try first

By The Pygge

How Marks & Spencer became cool

The brand known for frumpy blouses and comfortable shoes has reversed its reputation

By Zoë Huxford

More people are voting in local by-elections. This only helps Reform

New voters are overthrowing the old political order

By Ben Walker

The truth about the small-boats crisis

What Nigel Farage won’t tell you

By Miles Ellingham and Jack Jeffery

Has Keir Starmer picked the wrong battle?

MPs from left and right fear the Prime Minister’s new moral crusade against Reform has set him up for failure

By George Eaton