Politics

Nigel Farage has acknowledged that the overseas donation controversy surrounding Reform UK “looks bad” for his party, but he denied that the party had ever accepted foreign money in breach of electoral law. When asked by BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg to categorically deny that foreign funds had been channelled to

CuriosityNews’ city editor, Anna Isaacs, is sitting on the panel on Laura Kuenssberg’s show alongside broadcaster Jeremy Vine and political scientist Francis Fukuyama. Her revelation that Nigel Farage received a £5m gift from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024

Labour defence committee chair urges Burnham to raise military spending amid Falklands threat Tan Dhesi, the Labour chair of the defence committee, has argued that comments by Argentinian president Javier Milei this week regarding the Falkland Islands demonstrate why the government should raise military spending to 3% of GDP by

Devolution in England is going to be difficult and drawn-out, and carries enormous dangers that Andy Burnham overlooks at his own risk. The prime minister’s devolution agenda will be messy because Whitehall’s deep-rooted reluctance to hand over money and power will result in fragmented agreements, beginning

Until now, Andy Burnham has been a fortunate prime minister. In office for just over six weeks, no major domestic crisis derailed his plans over the summer, Reform has been on the back foot, and he arrived back at Westminster with his personal approval ratings climbing and optimism undampened. But

Nigel Farage has said he “wasn’t even listening” during a meeting at the centre of a dispute over whether his party discussed getting round the law on overseas donations. The Reform UK leader also said he understood donation law “better than anybody” in interviews aimed at rescuing the final