Joe PikePolitics investigations correspondentPA MediaTen weeks ago Sir Keir Starmer sent Shabana Mahmood to run the Home Office precisely so that she would be radical in overhauling the UK's ...

Sam FrancisPolitical reporterPA MediaReform UK has said it will no longer co-operate with a BBC documentary about the party following a row over how a speech by US President ...

A Reform UK councillor on Dartford Borough Council (DBC) has defected to the Conservatives after becoming "uncomfortable" with his party.Conservative council leader Jeremy Kite confirmed on Friday that James ...

Sam FrancisPolitical reporterWes Streeting: "I think what she (Sarah Pochin) said was a disgrace. I think it was racist"Health Secretary Wes Streeting has criticised Reform MP Sarah Pochin for ...

Chris MasonPolitical editorEPAFirst week by week, and now day by day, the prime minister is stepping up the way he describes the political battle between Labour and Reform UK.Sir ...

Reform UK's newest MP Danny Kruger has denied there are plans for "some sort of pensioner deportation programme".The MP for East Wiltshire was responding to concerns that proposals to ...

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended from the party following allegations he made online comments threatening to kill the prime minister.John Allen, who represents the Hirst ward on ...

Chris MasonPolitical editorBBCTheir comfortable and now sustained over months lead in the opinion polls, alongside their habit of demonstrating momentum – the defection of Conservative shadow minister Danny Kruger ...

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK.Speaking to the Daily Mail, the ex-MP for Mid-Bedfordshire said: "The Tory Party is dead. Its members now need to ...

Dan MartinBBC News, East MidlandsReutersNigel Farage said he would speak to council leader Mick Barton at Reform's party conference on FridayNigel Farage has said he will "have a little ...

Annual house price growth slowed in August as calls grow for a reform of property taxes in the Autumn budget.The pace of UK property price rises dropped to 2.1%, ...

Joshua NevettPolitical reporterPA MediaTrapped in underground rocks, a potential energy resource has eluded generations of British politicians.It's called shale gas and the method of getting it out of the ...