🧨 Gary Neville Was Right - Brexit Was a Fucking Mistake, and It’s Time We Admitted It

Bosses blame high energy costs and cheap imports and have called on the government to intervene.

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

Following Channel 4's revelations that Nigel Farage's Leave EU campaign faked inflammatory photos of sexual attacks and staged videos about migrants, Byline Times has evidence of more racist propagand...

A key Brexiteer has pleaded guilty to shilling for a foreign power during his time as an MEP.

Andrew Lewin has said ‘not a single tax’ would have had to increase if Britain stayed in the EU

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns The independence of the Electoral Commission must be fully restored to protect the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, a new report warns. The Democracy in Danger report by Spotlight on Corruption found the UK government is in breach of eight different international standards on ensuring the independence of electoral bodies by maintaining the government’s oversight of the watchdog. The UK government is in breach of eight different international standards on ensuring the independence of electoral bodies by maintaining the new power in place. All the constitutional oversight bodies that reviewed the ministerial power opposed its introduction – including two parliamentary committees, the UK’s top ethics body, the Committee on Standards in Public Life, and the Electoral Commission’s oversight body, the Speaker’s Committee. The UK has plummeted down international rankings for electoral body autonomy since the power was introduced and now ranks 44th, among countries such as Ghana, Nepal and Croatia. It has fallen out of line with comparable countries such as Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. The power, which was described by the former MI5 director general and chair of the top ethics body, Lord Evans, as “giving a toddler a gun”, could be used by a future government with autocratic tendencies to distort electoral rules in its favour to maintain power. Continue reading...

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

The Royal Parks have rejected Nigel Farage’s claims that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.

International body warns British rate will be higher than that in US, despite effects of Trump tariffs

Growth rate slightly lower than previous first-half years but sector still strong and resilient, experts say

Dozens of bishops and Christian leaders wrote: "Jesus calls us to love both our neighbours and our enemies and to welcome the stranger. Any co-opting or corrupting of the Christian faith to exclude ot...

It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Barking and Dagenham councillors form the first political opposition to Labour in the borough in over a decade

The motion denying the existence of man-made climate change comes after Reform councils across the country ripped up local environmental schemes