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Reform UK


Deborah Frances-White: No, Nigel, not all men are misogynist, and not all pubs are either

Deborah Frances-White: No, Nigel, not all men are misogynist, and not all pubs are either

When the erstwhile MP for Clacton defended a candidate’s crass comments about women, he called them something ‘you’ll hear in every pub in the country’. Our survey of pubs suggest that’s simply not true, writes 'the Guilty Feminist'

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Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

Part two of the Harborne Receipts, the Nerve’s investigation into the billionaire's influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, leaving a wound on the far right still raw today. By Carole Cadwalladr and Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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Sangita Myska: Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not

Sangita Myska: Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not

In the US, Trump is already riding roughshod over glaringly obvious conflicts of interest. We can’t let the same thing happen in Britain

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Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Keir Starmer may have handed him the tools

Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Keir Starmer may have handed him the tools

Reform’s proposed "Deportation Command” would integrate NHS, police and financial data into a single surveillance database. Meanwhile, Palantir has signalled it won’t stand in their way, and campaigners say Labour’s new data law opens the door. By Rei Takver

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Small talk, lager and limp handshakes: face to face with MattGPT in the studio

Small talk, lager and limp handshakes: face to face with MattGPT in the studio

After his critique of Matthew Goodwin’s rightwing manifesto Suicide of a Nation went viral, Andy Twelves was invited on to GB News for a live debate with the failed candidate for Gorton and Denton. How did Goodwin's defence of his book work out?

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Fake quotes, factual errors and ChatGPT links – my bizarre journey into Matt Goodwin’s new book

Fake quotes, factual errors and ChatGPT links – my bizarre journey into Matt Goodwin’s new book

The Reform UK candidate’s polemic Suicide of a Nation claims to expose a toxic elite leading Britain to annihilation, but my close reading revealed a mix of phantom sources and falsehoods. Then MattGPT answered back... By Andy Twelves

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Could Manchester go turquoise (or Green)? No-one from Reform would speak to us

Could Manchester go turquoise (or Green)? No-one from Reform would speak to us

John Sweeney visits Gorton and Denton to talk to voters and candidates ahead of this week's byelection. He has little joy at Reform HQ, and potential voters seem shy. Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer, however, is happily hitting the doorsteps...

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‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage

‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage

NEW FILM! John Sweeney is back on the trail of the Reform UK leader. For his latest report, he visits Dulwich College with the journalist and author Michael Crick, who confronted the Reform leader with allegations of schoolboy antisemitism over a decade ago.

Reform UK

John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time

John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time

The Nerve's Reform correspondent assesses teenager George Finch’s recent controversial comments about the alleged rape of a child – and says he’s skating on thin ice

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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexit

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"It's democracy, but not as we know it": John Sweeney on Reform, Russia & the result in Caerphilly

"It's democracy, but not as we know it": John Sweeney on Reform, Russia & the result in Caerphilly

The Nerve’s Reform correspondent went to Caerphilly on polling day to catch the mood of a bellwether by-election: would Reform UK defeat Labour as the stats were suggesting? And where on earth was their candidate Llŷr Powell, former colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? Watch John's report to find out...

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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP

The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP

Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform on Thursday, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to charge him after he was originally detained. By Carole Cadwalladr

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