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Reform UK is looking to majorly influence the next general election, with leader Richard Tice saying the right-wing party will stand in every seat. Mr Tice kicked off his campaign this year by saying he would be "pleased" if he could help "punish the utter failure of the Conservative Party" - while labelling a Labour win "Starmergeddon". But who is the 59-year-old Reform UK leader and how has he ended up in this position? Here's what you need to know about Mr Tice, who describes himself on his website as "a no-nonsense, can-do type of person who gets things done"....

Reform UK is now just one point behind the Conservatives as the second-biggest party in Wales, new polling has shown. Polling company Redfield and Wilton show that the Welsh Conservatives, led by Andrew RT Davies, have plummeted from 36 per cent in 2019 to just 16 per cent, with Labour ahead on 49 per cent and Reform UK on 15 per cent in Wales. Reform UK leader Richard Tice took to social media, saying: "Reform within a whisker of being second largest polling party. England next." Reacting to the news, Lee Anderson MP said: "It's happening! It's up to you...

VIDEONever before has an apple been used so EFFECTIVELY to help dismantle the dopey premises of a leftwing journalist. In this case Pierre Poilievre the Canadian Conservative Party leader of the Official Opposition beautifully used an apple as a prop to hilariously tear apart the arguments put forth by a leftwing journalist who somehow couldn't take his eyes off the ground. Poilievre showed just how easily, while very calmly munching on an apple, the flawed assumptions of the leftists can be taken apart when they are outside their echo chamber comfort zones.

Rishi Sunak was delivered a pre-conference (convention) boost this morning after Labour's polling lead was slashed to just 10 points. The Prime Minister closed the gap on the opposition party by five points after making a series of policy announcements aimed at shoring up the Conservative base. After revealing plans to cut back on some of the Government's net zero targets, hinting at the scrapping of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 rail project, and declaring an end to the "war on motorists". The poll for a Sunday newspaper put Labour on 39 per cent of the vote and...

Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party has faced a raw deal as Tory voters leave the party, while a poll has revealed they may be headed elsewhere. A YouGov poll on voting intention showed a spike in Reform UK’s support now at nine points - up by four. This follows the Tories dropping three points to 22 per cent and Labour dropping one point to 47 per cent, a change apparently in favour of Reform UK. The Liberal Democrats have seen no change, with nine per cent of the vote. The poll, from November 29 to 30, also saw Keir Starmer’s lead...

The newly elected UK prime minister wants to “fix our economy, unite our Party and deliver for our country” Sunak previously asked the Royal Mint to create NFTs to demonstrate the country’s commitment to investing in cryptocurrency technology The United Kingdom’s incoming prime minister may be a bullish indicator for the country’s crypto prowess. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is set to take the seat following the resignation of Liz Truss — who was in office for just 45 days. Handpicked by fellow Conservative Party members on Monday, Sunak, the son of Indian immigrants, will be the first...

"The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis. "The choice our Party makes now will decide whether the next generation of British people will have more opportunities than the last. "That's why I am standing to be your new Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party. I want to fix our economy, unite our Party and deliver for our country. "I served as your Chancellor, helping to steer our economy through the toughest of times. "The challenges we face now are even greater. But the opportunities - if we make the right choice...

Boris Johnson and his allies have launched a legal fightback against a Commons inquiry into claims he lied to parliament about partygate. The government has commissioned legal advice from a top QC, Lord Pannick, which the PM's supporters claim undermines the legitimacy of the inquiry. Lord Pannick is a crossbench peer who has previously acted against the government for anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller and Shamima Begum over the removal of her British citizenship. The inquiry into Mr Johnson, by the all-party Privileges Committee, has been denounced as "a witch-hunt" and "a kangaroo court" by his allies after the committee announced...

Boris Johnson has given the green light to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, promising £700m of government funding for the project. He confirmed the move during a speech from the site in one of his final acts as prime minister - and amid the rising cost of living crisis - saying he was "absolutely confident it will get over the line" in the next few weeks. The government has previously said the £20bn power plant would take just under a decade to build and could power six million homes. Mr Johnson is due to be replaced as...

Since Britain’s first prime minister took office in 1721, a total of 55 people have held the job. They’ve come from a variety of backgrounds and political persuasions, but they’ve all had at least one thing in common: They were white. The next prime minister may not be. Rishi Sunak, a 42-year-old multimillionaire of Indian heritage and former Treasury chief, is one of two finalists for the job, which will be filled early next month with a vote by rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party.

...Who is 47-year-old Liz Truss and how did she manage to overtake her rival Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed Boris Johnson? With 57.4 percent of the vote in the Conservative Party leadership contest, Truss can savour a comfortable victory over ex-chancellor Sunak. The outgoing foreign secretary's success is all the more satisfying because her challenger was initially the bookmakers' favourite to be the next prime minister. Truss's triumph can be explained by some strategic moves on her part that have played to the party faithful, but also by mishaps in the campaign of her rival. When the scandal-plagued...

Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest It was a closer result than many pundits expected, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast

Liz Truss urged Dominic Cummings to scrap hundreds of 'woke' civil service roles in an attack on Whitehall 'groupthink', a leaked document has revealed. As international trade secretary in 2020, Miss Truss's office called for the abolition of diversity and inclusion roles in the civil service. Her office reportedly signed off the document to Mr Cummings, who was then Boris Johnson's most senior adviser, criticising the 'risk-averse' Whitehall for its liberal 'groupthink'. And she lambasted the difficulty of firing poorly-performing officials, according to the Telegraph. A source close to Miss Truss told the paper the document represented how she would...

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the most votes in the second round of voting to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister, as one candidate was eliminated.

Penny Mordaunt has closed the gap on frontrunner Rishi Sunak as the five Tory leadership contenders prepare to face a TV debate showdown on Friday evening. The former defence secretary also stretched further ahead of third-place Liz Truss as Suella Braverman was eliminated in Thursday’s second ballot of Tory MPs. The Attorney General lost five supporters, while Ms Mordaunt picked up 16 extra backers - putting the international trade minister on 83 votes in the contest to replace Boris Johnson. -Chancellor Mr Sunak remains the frontrunner with 101 supporters, up from 88 in the first round of voting on Wednesday....

Support for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative party has slipped behind the opposition Labour party to its lowest level since the 2019 national election, a poll showed, after announcing a tax rise to fund health and social care. The poll, conducted by YouGov for the Times newspaper, showed support for the Conservatives slump five points to 33%, with Labour up one point to 35%, ahead of Johnson's party for the first time since January. Johnson set out plans on Tuesday to raise taxes on workers, employers and some investors to try to fix a health and social care funding...

The United Kingdom’s fourth largest party suspended a candidate for mayor of London who was filmed in 1997 telling voters not to support a Jew. The Liberal Democrats suspended Geeta Sidhu-Robb, who was vying to become their candidate in London’s 2021 mayoral elections, the Jewish News of London reported. Over the weekend, a video emerged on Twitter showing her during her 1997 general election campaign for the constituency of Blackburn in northern England. In that campaign, Sidhu-Robb was running as a member of the Conservative Party against Jack Straw, a former Labour lawmaker. “Don’t vote for a Jew. Jack Straw...

The second time, as it turns out, is the charm: Erin O’Toole will be the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. The Durham MP won the race to replace Andrew Scheer as leader of the party in a physically distanced hybrid convention Sunday night. That capped off a campaign forced to pivot repeatedly to adjust to life and politics in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. This race was the second at bat for O’Toole after he previously ran and lost to Scheer in the 2017 Conservative leadership race, taking third place in that campaign.

Last week the world's second-oldest political party showed, and not for the first time, its capacity to regenerate itself and win an impressive majority in difficult circumstances. That's a reference to the victory of the Conservative Party in Britain's Dec. 12 general election, in which it won a 365-seat majority in the 650-member House of Commons -- about which I wrote at considerable length earlier this week. The resilience of the Conservative Party should not come as a total surprise to those who know that it is older than our Republican Party and just a dozen years less longstanding than...

A new YouGov forecast projects that the Conservative majority will narrow to 28 seats, down from the 68 seats calculated by the same YouGov model and published a the end of November. CNN's Simon Cullen reports.