A Reform spokesperson who appeared on Newsnight to defend the party’s internal investigation into foreign donations has been branded a laughingstock. Reform UK councillor Jaymey McIvor appeared on the BBC’s flagship current affairs show, where he claimed that his party had been cleared of wrongdoing… by the party itself.
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right demonstration in the centre of Bristol tonight (Friday, October 9) to move it or reschedule, because a big cancer charity fundraising walk was taking place at the same time. But police have now confirmed the group refused.
In Restore’s present internal row Downes has become particularly associated with the ethnonationalist tendency, and is strongly supported by the nazi faction of Steve Laws, Sam Wilkes and Cal Barker..
Reform UK has seen its polling levels drop to the lowest in over a year and a half as the party continue to leak support.
The latest polling from More in Common shows Reform’s polling percentage had dropped two points to 23%, leaving them four points behind Labour who are unchanged on a week ago on 27%.
The Conservatives find themselves in third place on 22%, whilst the Lib Dems are on 10% and the Greens on 9%.
The 23% for Reform is their lowest polling level since January 2025. Whilst the party continue to be dogged by infighting, unserious policies and funding controversies, in this poll it doesn’t seem to be Labour or the Tories who have contributed to the drop for Reform.
Videos circulating on social media show a group of men holding up a flag bearing the name of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) during a protest on Princes Street on Saturday.
Images also show some of the men carrying a banner bearing the logo of Combat 18, the neo-Nazi group, and the far-right organisations Patriotic Alternative and the Scottish Defence League.
A former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of misusing the UK’s Christianity “to channel anti-Muslim feeling” and said he also had “some awkward questions” for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
Dr Rowan Williams, who was the archbishop of Canterbury for 10 years until 2012, said there was an “inevitable scepticism these days about some claims to religious conviction”.
"Liverpool John Moores University - which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 - concluded that he had not plagiarised work."