NewsBite

Nigel Farage

August

Police clash with right-wing protesters in Manchester at the weekend.

UK police prepare for further clashes with far right

PM Keir Starmer said this week authorities had agreed to mobilise a “standing army” of officers to deal with the anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disorder.

  • Alex Wickham

July

Nigel Farage’s ambition will only have been fortified by his modest parliamentary breakthrough and the 98 seats where Reform is currently in second place, almost all of them to Labour.

The fight for the UK right has begun

Surrendering to the Faragist path rather than taking it on and defeating it would herald the end of the centre right and a capitulation to unserious politics.

  • Robert Shrimsley
Keir Starmer UK Labour leader

Labour’s sweeping victory in Britain is terrible news for Peter Dutton

The UK general election was fought over problems that are familiar to many Australian voters, which is why the outcome looks bad for the Coalition.

  • Aaron Patrick

Knives out: Tory collapse sparks bitter blame game

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under fire after an exit poll shows the Conservative Party is set for the worst result in its history.

  • Updated
  • Lucy Fisher
xx

Labour landslide; Starmer should worry Albo; Stock picker’s $46m spree

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Advertisement
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after acknowledging Labour had won the election.

The Conservatives imploded. Labour simply filled the vacuum

Labour’s landslide shares some parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 win but those end with Keir Starmer’s small target strategy and threadbare policy.

  • Michael Turner
Keir Starmer chose not to make Brexit an election issue. But once victory is secured he must hammer the point home.

Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit

Labour and the Tories have avoided the topic, but a full audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming ministers.

  • Robert Shrimsley
Boris Johnson at the campaign event this week.

Boris Johnson in surprise late move to avert Tory wipeout

Making his first public appearance of the campaign, the former prime minister said Labour would “destroy so much of what we have achieved”.

  • Alex Wickham

June

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak. The head-to-head debate in Nottingham was the prime minister’s last chance in a set-piece event to try to turn around a Conservative campaign.

Rishi Sunak uses TV debate to try to avert Tory electoral meltdown

With new opinion polls pointing to a massive Labour majority, the PM came out fighting, insisting that Sir Keir Starmer would raise taxes and allow spending to spiral.

  • George Parker, Lucy Fisher and Rafe Uddin
It’s been reported there was a surge in bets on the date of the UK election in the days leading up to PM Rishi Sunak announcing the snap election on May 22.

Sunak defends handling of election betting scandal

The prime minister insists the Conservatives “will not hesitate to act” if party figures are found to have cheated by placing bets.

  • Lucy Fisher, Anna Gross and Eri Sugiura
Rishi Sunak on the hustings in south-west England this week. Some polls suggest he could lose his seat.

Even Rishi Sunak could lose his seat, according to some polls

Seat-by-seat analysis by Savanta and Electoral Calculus found the Tories are on track to win just 53 seats in next month’s vote, an all-time low for the party.

  • Alex Morales

NSW budget winners; Bitcoin ETFs arrive in Oz; 15 ASX stock picks

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives at a fundraiser for Donald Trump in London.

Nigel Farage’s party overtakes Tories in UK poll blow

Right-wing Reform UK provides a symbolic ‘crossover moment’ in support that Conservative strategists have been fearing for months.

  • Alex Wickham

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/person/nigel-paul-farage-6gt1