The PM says abolishing "the arms-length body" will reduce duplication and save money that can then be spent on frontline services.

Harrogate's Conservative team have revealed the candidates – and the platform – they hope will see off the threat of Reform UK this May at the elections for the new Harrogate Town Council.

Sir Keir Starmer signalled he wants to take on a “watchdog state completely out of whack with the priorities of the British ...

Reform's former head of communications issued an ominous warning about the party's future two months prior to the bust-up between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe. Lowe has been locked in a bitter war of ...

Nigel Farage is engaged in a very public spat with Rupert Lowe, one of his MPs. But it hasn’t dented Reform’s polling. Here’s ...

This week, local democracy reporter Robert Boddy gives his take on the in-fighting engulfing Reform UK, and ponders on the ...

Just weeks before the local elections on May 1, a former Conservative county councillor has switched sides to join Reform UK.

But, she adds, at the heart of this is a question about austerity. "When he talks about reform, what many people see is that this actually a byword for cuts, for cuts to state jobs, but also cuts ...

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