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“Operation Epic Fury was the loud one. Operation Economic Fury is the quiet one. . . . While the carriers were on television, Treasury was doing the actual demolition.” —Jesús Enrique Rosas on X Expect a consequential week. The Persian Gulf remains closed and colossal oil slicks leak out of Kharg Island while Iran blusters and stomps its feet. No one can even try to buy its oil anymore, not even China. The sanctions are too onerous. Iran’s wells must be shut in now. Imagine how the production chiefs out in the oil fields are howling at their insane IRGC...

More than a hundred Labour Party politicians have called on Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer to set out plans to resign from his post following this week’s disastrous defeat in the local elections to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The knives are out for Prime Minister Starmer, who is now embroiled in a desperate fight to extend his political life after a historically poor performance in the rough British equivalent of a midterm election this week. Starmer’s Labour suffered heavy losses in councils across England, losing control of traditional “red wall” seats to Farage’s Reform party, while losing power in...

A “truly historic shift in British politics” has taken place where the national political question is no longer about “left or right”, Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage said as his Reform Party surged in early results in what has been called the “midterm” elections. The first Britain-wide local election results trickled in overnight — and will continue to do so through the day and into the weekend as over 5,000 local races have their votes counted — revealing in its early stages a massive swing to Reform UK. Party leader Nigel Farage hailed the party’s gains so far, and vowed “the...

Polls opened Thursday for millions of Britons in a series of races set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer and showcase the rise of hard-right and left-wing populist parties, both of which face accusations of antisemitism and bigotry at a time when Jews in the UK are under increasing threat. Voters across Scotland, England and Wales head to the ballot box in Starmer’s biggest electoral test since his July 2024 general election landslide victory ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Opinion polls predict grim results for Labour, which could amplify calls for Starmer, 63, to resign...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has U-turned on his position on the UK’s involvement in the Iran war amid growing evidence the British public opposes the US-Israeli offensive that has driven up the price of fuel. Last week, Farage said that “the gloves need to come off” and the UK should “do all we can to support the operation — I make that perfectly, perfectly clear”. He added that “we need to accept that we are part of this with the Americans and the Israelis” and has called Sir Keir Starmer’s decision not to back the US from the start...

Nigel Farage insisted "the British people will not put up with this any longer" amid a row over a Ramadan event held in London. Tory MP Nick Timothy sparked controversy with a tweet saying public Muslim prayer is an "act of domination and division", following the Open Iftar in Trafalgar Square on Monday. He is facing calls, including from Sir Keir Starmer, to be sacked as shadow justice secretary over the post. But Mr Farage echoed Mr Timothy's comments as he weighed in on the furore. The Reform UK leader wrote on X: "What we witnessed in London at the...

Sir Winston Churchill will be replaced on the £5 note by an animal, the Bank of England has said. Emma Soames, granddaughter of Sir Winston, told BBC Newsnight she was happy with the idea and she rejected Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's characterisation of the change as "wokery".

Sir Keir Starmer's unpopularity crisis deepened last night as a bombshell national poll put the Greens second – ahead of Labour. Zack Polanski's party has also leapfrogged the Tories following last week's by-election humiliation for the Prime Minister. It prompted warnings that Labour will be forced to form a 'scary coalition of the Left' with Mr Polanski, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SNP at the next election. Support for the Greens is now at 21 per cent, up by four points in the week since their victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, according to the YouGov voting...

Elon Musk has thrown his support behind a former Reform UK MP and his new political party, which is promising to 'reverse' migration and 'do things the [British] way'. Rupert Lowe, now an independent MP representing Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, has announced the launch of Restore Britain. He originally set it up as a 'political movement' after being suspended from Nigel Farage's Reform UK party last March, amid allegations he physically threatened then party chairman Zia Yusuf. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently dropped the case, stating there was insufficient evidence to proceed. Restore Britain has established itself as an umbrella...

Rupert Lowe MP, ousted last year from Reform UK following a spectacular falling out with Nigel Farage, has re-launched Restore Britain, turning his erstwhile ‘political movement’ into a fully fledged political party, positing itself as the purer, ‘patriotic’ alternative to the supposed sell-outs and subversives around Farage. Restore Britain is what happens when you confuse online buzz with actual electoral support. Just as a decade or so ago, the left convinced itself that Twitter was Britain, only for 14 years of Tory rule and Brexit to ensue, now Very Online rightists with more mobile data than sense are making the...

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The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereignty of nation states. During a panel at the World Economic Forum’s “America House” in the Swiss ski resort on Wednesday, the Reform UK leader said he had “no doubt” that the world would be safer if a “strong America” was in Greenland “because of the geopolitics of the high north, because of the retreating ice caps and because of the continued expansionism of Russian icebreakers, of Chinese investment”. Speaking just after Donald...

The former Sex Pistols frontman has had a hot and cold approach to the US president over recent yearsJohn Lydon has compared Nigel Farage to a fairground worker, and described Donald Trump as “the Sex Pistols of politics” in a new interview. Read More: John Lydon on how he’s channelling grief into a new “raucous” Public Image Ltd album The former Sex Pistols frontman (aka Johnny Rotten) shared his thoughts on the two politicians during a new interview with The Mirror, and recalled the time he met the US President. His comments came shortly after he told the outlet his...

Reform is currently crushing both Labour and the Conservative Party, with Reform UK all set to grab more seats than Labour and Conservatives combined if elections were held today. Labour are set to have their worst result since 1931, Conservatives their worst result since 1670 (America hadn't even been created yet). Reason? Illegal immigration.

British workers would see their wages rise under Reform's plan to end firms' decades-long reliance on cheap foreign labour, Nigel Farage vowed yesterday. Under his 'very bold' plan to restrict legal migration, the party leader said if he becomes Prime Minister foreign nationals will no longer be able to come over for low-paid jobs leaving locals 'priced out'. He also outlined proposals to cut benefits for all migrants with settled status. In order to claim benefits they would need to have British citizenship. Mr Farage said a Reform government would force UK firms in sectors reliant on overseas staff to...

Four years ago, Nigel Farage decided he had achieved all he could in British politics. The gregarious English populist had campaigned for decades for Britain to leave the European Union, arguing the U.K. needed to make its own regulations and stop European migrants flowing in freely from the Continent to live and work. By 2021, Brexit was finally done. And so was Farage. “This has taken away the better part of my adult life,” he said as he announced he was quitting as leader of his anti-immigration party Reform UK. “I’m done.” Now Farage is back—and Reform UK is currently...

The Church of England's most senior bishop has launched a blistering attack on Nigel Farage's small boats policy. Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell branded the Reform UK leader's proposals for mass deportations as being 'isolationist, short-term' and 'kneejerk'. Mr Farage this week set out plans to deport 600,000 migrants through 'Operation Restoring Justice' which he hopes to implement should his party win the next election. But the archbishop, who is the most senior figure in the CofE in the absence of an Archbishop of Canterbury, said Mr Farage was not offering a solution to the 'big issues' which are driving...

Reform UK is on course for a landslide majority at the election, as a new poll reveals Nigel Farage's party is now polling more than Labour and the Tories combined. FindOutNow asked voters who they would back at the election, and found Reform now sits well ahead of all other parties on 34% of the vote. Labour support is now at just 18%, their lowest since 2019, while the Tories have fallen another two points to a paltry 15%. The LibDems are closing in on Kemi Badenoch, rising one point to 13%, with the Greens on 10%. According to the...

Keir Starmer’s popularity amongst the British public shows no sign of turning around, with a new poll finding he is now less popular than Donald Trump. Polling from City AM and Freshwater Strategies asked Brits whether they had favourable or unfavourable opinions of several politicians. When asked for their thoughts on the prime minister, just 23% of respondents said they had a favourable opinion of Starmer, with 60% saying unfavourable. By comparison, Trump scored three points better than Starmer among Brits, with a favourability rating of 26%, and 57% unfavourable. It wasn’t just Starmer who was trumped by Trump. His...