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In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Brexit leader Nigel Farage announced that he is going make an emergency trip to the United States to show solidarity with his longtime friend and political ally. The newly-elected Reform UK Member of Parliament said that he will fly to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week to “stand shoulder to shoulder with President Trump and the US to stand up for democracy.” Writing in The Telegraph the morning following the attempt on Donald Trump’s life by a gunman, Mr Farage said: “I do so to support my friend,...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the U.K.'s “botched” trade deal with the European Union. “I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,” he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit. […] Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday on Sky News that...

When Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald Trump, then the Republican candidate for president, declared himself “Mr. Brexit.” Trump claimed solidarity with the nationalism, isolationism, and anti-immigrant fervor that drove Brexiteers and incorporated it into the America First platform he pursued after winning the 2016 presidential race. Brits now view their populist experiment as a dismal failure. Champions of Brexit, such as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promised that severing political and economic integration with most of the rest of Europe would boost prosperity and self-sufficiency and leave more money for government services. Instead, the UK...

Tories are a discredited disgrace, Labour is out of touch, immigration continues at levels too hard to manage, so he's come out of retirement to head a party in opposition to Labour. Also talks of Covid travesty of lockdowns, vaxes for kids, masks, beleaguered small businessmen, his days in the EU parliament, constant flotilla of illegals crossing the Channel. He was the first to call it an invasion. Entire speech is rich with substance.

A poll claiming Nigel Farage is on track to win the Clacton Parliamentary seat by a comfortable margin would be by a degree “unprecedented in modern electoral history”. Brexit leader Nigel Farage is standing for election to the United Kingdom House of Commons for the eighth time, and polling suggests he may be on the verge of being sworn in to Westminster. Beyond a nationwide swing to Reform UK, the party he founded and now leads again, speat-specific polling by mainstream British pollster Survation by Farage ally Aaron Banks says he is likely to win big in Essex in 15...

Reform has pledged to “stop the boats” in its first 100 days in power as Nigel Farage launches his party’s manifesto in a run-down community centre in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. The party has set out a four-point plan on tackling illegal immigration that would involve leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), with zero illegal immigrants being resettled in the UK, a new government department for immigration, and migrants crossing the Channel in small boats being returned to France. Mr Farage said in the foreword to the party’s manifesto: “The Tories have broken Britain. Labour will bankrupt Britain....

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It is rare for voters to change their minds soon after referendums. Experience from Canada to Scotland, from Norway to Switzerland, suggests rather that opinions tend to move in favour of a referendum result more than they swing against it. But Brexit seems to be an exception. Since the 52-48% vote in favour of leaving the European Union in June 2016, the majority view among Britons has shifted, and especially so in the past two years, towards the conclusion that the decision was wrong. One way to take the temperature is to visit two English towns called Richmond which voted...

Supply chain snags are driving up the prices for fish and chips. As many as half of the U.K.’s “chippies” could shut down. HASTINGS, England — Ever since she was old enough to walk, Terrilea Coglan was climbing aboard fishing boats that set sail each morning from the rocky beachfront of Hastings to harvest the key ingredient in Britain’s most iconic dish: fish and chips. The day’s catch travels just a short way from the boats up to the seaside fish and chips shops, or “chippies,” that pride themselves as much in the freshness of the fish as in the...

The EU will begin taking British travellers’ fingerprints and scanning their faces from next autumn, as reported by the i and the Times. The new Entry/Exit Scheme (EES) could reportedly come into force on October 6, 2024 after several delays. It was initially due to begin in 2022, then in 2023. Non-EU (including British) travellers heading to the EU will have their fingerprints checked and their faces scanned the first time they enter the zone. It will apply to all EU countries except Cyprus and Ireland. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which are in the Schengen area but are not...

Who would have thought Nigel Farage would reach the finale of ‘I’m A Celeb’? Is this his stepping stone back into the political arena? In a remarkable twist, Brexit architect Nigel Farage, is allegedly on the verge of announcing a major political comeback. The revelation comes just hours after his surprisingly successful journey to the final stage of ‘I’m A Celebrity,’ in which he clinched third place. But after scoring votes from ‘Celebrity’ viewers it appears Farage is hoping to win yet more on the political stage. According to MailOnline, Farage’s plans will be unveiled in an upcoming interview, after...

Destitution - it's a word almost from another age, conjuring visions of desperate, grinding poverty. But it is a fact of life right now , for increasing numbers of people, according to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation thinktank. In a joint study with Heriot-Watt University, they found that 3.8 million people - a million of them children - experienced destitution last year defined as being unable to meet some of the most basic needs - staying dry, clean, warm and fed.

A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files....

People who voted for Brexit tended to be less clever, new research shows, in findings that also shed light on the appeal of EU populists, such as Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Some 73% of people in the smartest top 10% of the British population voted to stay in the EU back in 2016, according to a fresh study by the University of Bath in the UK. Just 40% of those at the other end of the spectrum (the least-smart 10%) voted to remain. And even in couples — where people had a similar age, education, income-level, and cultural background —...

Suella Braverman has said the pressure on public services from migration is "unsustainable", after figures estimated record levels last year. The former home secretary said the government must "act now" to cut the numbers coming to the UK. Net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - was a record 745,000 last year, ONS figures show.No 10 said migration was "far too high" but it was acting to bring it down. The prime minister's official spokesman said this included clamping down on dependants of students coming to the UK...

A new analysis suggests that a person with higher cognitive ability may have been more likely to vote "Remain" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and that a spouse's cognitive skills may also be linked to Brexit voting decisions. Chris Dawson and Paul Baker of the University of Bath, U.K., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 22, 2023. Having higher cognitive ability has previously been associated with a greater tendency to recognize and resist misinformation. Studies have also shown that the U.K. public received a large volume of misinformation about the referendum prior to voting for...

Susceptibility to misinformation and disinformation likely to have played part in Leave vote.New research from the University of Bath’s School of Management finds that higher cognitive ability was strongly linked to voting to Remain in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union Membership.The study shows that cognitive skills including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning, were correlated with how people decided to vote. Lead author Dr Chris Dawson, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, said: “This study adds to existing academic evidence showing that low cognitive ability makes people more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation. People...

Ron DeSantis’s taxpayer-funded Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern has claimed Brexit-campaigner and accredited conservative journalist Raheem Kassam (editor of this site) would be “top of the list” for deportation from the United States if the Governor of Florida were to become President in January 2025. His argument appeared to stem from the fact that Kassam does not support DeSantis for President, as well as mocking his colleagues Christina Pushaw and Brian Griffin on social media.The anti-free speech stance from one of the Governor’s official spokesmen comes as Trump announced mass deportations for illegal migrants in America, as well as Hamas and...

In a major coup for upstart British broadcaster GB News, Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he will be joining the network as a presenter, and therefore reuniting with his former fellow Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage. Following a tumultuous month, in which popular GB News personalities Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were unceremoniously sacked amid calls to shut down the network entirely over crude remarks about a feminist political commentator made on air by Fox, the broadcaster has firmly entrenched itself within the UK media landscape with the signing of ex-PM Boris Johnson.

Brexit Britain is dodging the European Union's increasing demands for cash from its member states after leaving the bloc. The EU is understood to be planning a €66bn (around $70bn ) increase in the 2021-2027 budget, as set out by the Commission in June. An additional €20bn (more than £17bn) is earmarked for support for Ukraine. While member states are supportive of the money going towards stymying Vladimir Putin's invasion, they are reportedly less keen on other areas of the boosted spending, as many countries face continued economic strife. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner expressed his support for increased spending...