Nigel Farage's band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer
Reform UK
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
The Reform leader’s pledge to restart Welsh blast furnaces ignores the practical realities of flooded pits, collapsed infrastructure – and the actual wishes of working people, argues Josiah Mortimer
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says Nigel Farage's party could 'undo Wales's fledgling democracy' as polling shows dramatic shift away from Labour
News organisations are failing the country at the moment when responsible independent journalism is most needed, argues Mathilda Mallinson
The media is widely reporting Reform UK's claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
The Prime Minister's advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
The Prime Minister's 'unutterably depressing' decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall