NIGEL Farage’s Reform UK could become the official opposition party after the next general election, a bombshell new poll shows. They are predicted to surge to 118 seats, giving them more MPs than the Conservatives. Rocketing support for Reform means that Labour are forecast to lose 130 seats, some 43 below an overall majority.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer picked former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson to replace Dame Karen Pierce as UK ambassador to the United States following the US election, but the choice reportedly didn't go down well with the President's team.

Defence is already an area where the UK and EU have close co-operation, but if Labour ministers get their way, they would like that collaboration to spread further. Since entering government, Starmer has made clear his government is keen to “reset” relations between the UK and EU.

Tory tactical voting last year – but, John Rentoul argues, new polling suggests that the next election could be very different

NIGEL Farage today reveals he has spoken to Keir Starmer’s government about helping them schmooze Donald Trump – as he declares he has the new US regime “on speed dial”. The Reform

The prime minister’s office said the two leaders agreed to meet soon and discussed trade, the economy and the Middle East.

Summer riots could have been prevented if the Prime Minister had been honest with the public over Axel Rudakubana’s background, says Farage

Exclusive: The first Techne UK weekly tracker poll of 2025 has put Reform ‘within the margin of error’ for a three-way split at the top with Labour and the Tories

Downing Street said it is ‘entirely normal’ for Britain to be represented by outgoing ambassador Dame Karen Pierce

The Reform UK leader has called for ‘all terrorist material’, including a video accessed by Axel Rudakubana, to be pulled from X