Reform’s Leader in Wales Resigns after Arrest for Assault

THE TELEGRAPH: Dan Thomas said he was standing down for ‘personal reasons’

Reform UK’s leader in Wales has stepped down after being arrested by police on suspicion of assault at the weekend.

Dan Thomas was named Welsh leader in February and led Reform to become the second-largest party in the Senedd at an election in May.

In a statement, he said: “It has been the honour of my life to have been the leader of Reform Wales and see this party go from zero to 34 elected members and become the largest opposition group in Welsh history.

“With deep regret, I am now standing down from this position due to personal reasons. Over the weekend, I was reported to the police and was released without charge. » | Telegraph Reporters | Tuesday, September 16, 2026

Can Nigel Farage Make Britain Christian Again?

Sep 15, 2026 | “Do not ask me to love everyone as I love those I’m close to – my actual neighbours.”

Reform UK has a vision for Britain built on family, community, and country, seeking to restore Britain to its Christian values. But what are those values? And can Christian nationalism work in the UK?

This is an original documentary for Times Radio produced by Hannah Drayton, Seth Maile, and Ben Wormald.


God Almighty! This agenda is redolent of Hitler’s agenda! Fascism is truly alive and kicking!

These people are dangerous. Keep them well away from the levers of power! Family, community, and country indeed! They’ll be coming with Ein Volk, ein Reich, und ein Führer next! Then people will know for sure that the country is in deep doo-doo!

If the shortage of babies is what they are concerned about—and they should be concerned about that—there is only one way to solve that problem and it is for women to have more babies. Reform UK won’t solve that problem with their policies.

And women will only be able to have more babies if they stay out of the workplace and procreate. This dearth of babies has been caused by feminism. The shortage started when women decided that motherhood was beneath them, so they chose equality with men instead. Fat lot of good that has done society!

When women are out working, they have little time to give birth, and still less time to raise babies. So, if society needs more babies—and it certainly does—it must be made possible for women to be able to afford to return to the home, return to traditional motherhood. Only then will western countries be able to facilitate enough babies being born.

It must be remembered, too, that children don’t bring themselves up. Good mothers do. The old model of the father being the breadwinner and the mother caring for the home and raising the children, with manners and good behaviour, was a model which we would do well to emulate today. All we need do is look around us and see what has happened to standards of behaviour by abandoning that model.

I know full well that my message will not be well received by many. The truth often hurts. Nevertheless, it needs to be stated.

Many think we can have it all: careers, children, solid family lives, etc. Unfortunately, we often cannot; so we must choose and prioritise. — © Mark Alexander

Why Reform’s Latest £72 Million Mega-donation Could Be Made Illegal

September 14, 2026

Keep BIG MONEY OUT of British politics; otherwise, we’ll end up with a SHITSHOW like they have in the States — a VERY CORRUPT political system which bears no resemblance to a true democracy. It is simply a political system which serves the needs of BIG BUSINESS. — © Mark Alexander

Peter Oborne: Reform Is a Threat to British Democracy

Sep 14, 2026 | Journalist and author Peter Oborne sat down with Ava to break down the latest scandal threatening Nigel Farage, and how the Labour party have finally begun to listen to the electorate by placing sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Crypto Billionaire's £36 Million Donation to Reform

Guto Hari talks about the implications of these large ‘gifts’.

Rob Groves: Crisis In Reform UK: Prison Sentences Now Possible

September 12, 2026

Farage Lands Record £36m Donation

THE TELEGRAPH: Cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo says he wants to ensure Reform has a ‘level playing field’ at the polls

Screenshot taken from this Telegraph article. | Ben Delo, 42, the co-founder of cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX, is said to have made his first billion in 2014 Credit: Paul Grover for The Telegraph
Reform UK has received a record £36m donation in a major boost to Nigel Farage’s hopes of winning the next general election.

Ben Delo, a cryptocurrency billionaire, said he had given the money to ensure “a fair fight” at the polls. It also signals his vote of confidence in Mr Farage after a difficult summer for the Reform leader.

The game-changing gift from Mr Delo, who was already the party’s second-largest donor, means Reform has raised five times as much as the Conservatives this year and more than six times as much as Labour.

Both parties have raised considerably more than Reform in the eight years since it was founded.

Writing for The Telegraph, Mr Delo says that only a massive injection of cash can enable Reform to compete with the “entrenched advantages” enjoyed by its rivals. » | Gordon Rayner | Associate editor | Friday, September 11, 2026

Michael Lambert: Why Reform's Crazy Operation Fortress Is Unworkable

Aug 28, 2026 | Reform's new Operation Fortress will never work — it's illegal, unworkable and would put lives at risk.

Reform UK have just published their big plan to stop the small boats — Operation Fortress — and, frankly, it's just not right. On paper it sounds tough: Royal Navy River Class patrol vessels, RHIBs, helicopters from Doncaster, P8 Poseidon aircraft and drones to force every small boat back into French waters.

In practice, as I explain in this video, it collapses on three grounds. First, it's illegal. Forcing dinghies back violates the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and French sovereignty — you can't just dump people in France's waters. Second, it's logistically absurd — you'd need to station warships permanently in the Dover Strait (the busiest shipping lane in the world, 400-500 large vessel movements a day), manhandle people who don't want to go into RHIBs, fly helicopters 200 miles from Doncaster, and even threaten "lethal force" if French police intervene. One photo in the document shows an aircraft carrier — to stop a rubber dinghy. And third, it's diplomatically impossible — as one of Reform's own endorsers admitted, France will never agree to take them back. It's another fantasy policy — after the £1bn Rwanda farce — paid for by the taxpayer.

Was Clacton Fiasco Beginning of the End for Farage and Reform?

August 21, 2026 | Farage has gone missing since the Clacton by-election — and the party he built is falling apart around him.

I wasn't going to talk about Farage this week, but after the Clacton by-election he's done a disappearing act and Reform UK appears to be in complete meltdown.

n this video I look at why calling that by-election was the first major unforced error of Farage's career — the moment he realised he'd made a classic mistake and went to ground.

From the poll slump (27% down to 24%) to the pressers from Richard Tice and Bob Jenrick, the £50 billion benefit cut plan, and the long list of scandals and fallings-out — the £5 million gift, the tax investigations, the convictions — this is a party beginning to look like a complete rabble.

I also ask the bigger question: Is this finally it for the man who brought us Brexit? …

Farage’s Furious Clash with Times Editor Stuns Figures Close to Him

THE GUARDIAN: ‘Strong confrontation’ comes at fragile moment for Reform’s relations with rightwing media as coverage turns negative

Screenshot taken from this Guardian article. | Nigel Farage speaking at the inaugural CPAC GB event on 17 July. Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock
Nigel Farage is no stranger to expressing his ire at what he regards as the liberal establishment, but even figures close to him were surprised at the tirade of anger he unleashed upon the editor of the Times.

The exchange, which is said to have included an expletive aimed at Tony Gallagher, was triggered by the Reform UK leader’s outrage that the paper was planning to run a story about his houses, which he said endangered his family.

A source with knowledge of the encounter said it ended in “a strong confrontation”.

It is a fragile moment for Reform’s relationship with Britain’s rightwing media, whose coverage of Farage and his byelection gamble has taken a negative turn since questions were raised about his funding and finances.

Coverage by the Times and the Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK stable, as well as the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, has made for tough reading for Reform in recent days.

While the Telegraph has given column inches to party figures to air their grievances at the media, recent stories have also described Farage’s decision to subject himself to a “people versus the establishment” byelection in Clacton as a “summer gamble” and a farce. » | Michael Savage | Media editor | Saturday, July 18, 2026

Meet George | Posh George: The Criminal Behind Farage Ep.1

Jul 16, 2026 | Who is George Swinfen Cottrell, aka Posh George? Booted out of his expensive boarding school after gambling in 2010, he comes of age in London’s Mayfair district, learning the tricks of his trade in international finance, private banking, and offshore structures.

George is soon drawn into the orbit of UKIP leader, Nigel Farage.

Both George Cottrell and Nigel Farage deny any wrongdoing.

Host: Gabriel Pogrund, editor of Insight at The Sunday Times

Rob Groves: Farage's Runaway Gravy Train Derails

July 11, 2026 | Nigel Farage built his entire brand on being the one honest man taking on a corrupt establishment.

This week, the facts underneath Reform UK's accounts tell a very different story: an undisclosed £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, a convicted fraudster acting as the party's unofficial treasurer, money routed through a renamed company and an Australian currency exchange nobody can trace, deputy leader Richard Tice's murky Dubai property deal, and Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick under active Metropolitan Police investigation over an allegedly illegal foreign donation.

Meanwhile Farage has triggered a pointless by-election in Clacton, running unopposed against novelty candidate Count Binface, in a transparent bid to dodge the scrutiny closing in from the parliamentary standards commissioner, the Met, the National Crime Agency and his own furious donors.

Michael Lambert: Nigel Farage's Political Career Is Collapsing

July 10, 2026 | Nigel Farage's political career is on the brink. The latest revelations regarding his financial dealings and the wider scrutiny on Reform UK suggest that what many thought was an unstoppable force is now facing a definitive collapse.

In this video, I break down the timeline of events, the serious questions regarding campaign funding, and why the narrative surrounding Farage has shifted so drastically. It’s a classic case of political hubris meeting intense public and legal scrutiny. I mean, the way this has been handled—or rather, mishandled—it's just… it's just not right. …


What amazes me about Nigel Farage is that so many of the so-called "great and the good" in this country take him so seriously as a future prime minister. He is the man who has impoverished the nation through Brexit and ruined its international standing; yet they are so ready and willing to talk of him one day soon occupying the top political job in this country! To me, the man is nothing but a charlatan and snake-oil salesman. A fraud. I couldn't and wouldn't vote for that man even if he was the last man standing! — © Mark Alexander

‘Straight Out of Trumpland’: LGBTQ+ Members Fight for Pride after Essex Library Ban

THE GUARDIAN: Rochford LGBTQ+ community say Reform council’s ban on flying pride flags or holding events states they’re not welcome

Before Reform gained control of Essex county council in the May elections, Chris Taylor and members of the Rochford LGBTQ+ community already felt they were witnessing a growing tide of political rhetoric around identity.

But they were still shocked when the county’s new leadership moved to ban Pride events in 74 libraries, scaling back events of “any particular groups or themes”, a decision they said was “straight out of Trumpland”.

“It communicates the fact that we’re not welcome,” said Taylor, who recently launched a petition against the “Orwellian” ban on pride events in Essex libraries.

Reform councils across England, from Essex and Durham to Leicestershire and Kent, have imposed bans on flying the pride flag and holding pride events in public spaces, as well as, in some cases, defunding pride events previously sponsored by local authorities.

Essex county council said libraries were “safe spaces for everybody” and LGBTQ+ books and displays would continue, but added the promotion of library events aimed at specific groups was under review. » | Geneva Abdul and Aamna Mohdin | Sunday, June 14, 2026

Michael Lambert: Nigel Farage Exposed | Riots, Tate, Putin & a £5 Million Scandal

Jun 5, 2026 | Nigel Farage is finished — and he knows it. But before he goes, it's worth understanding exactly what he really is and what he has done to this country.

In this video, I go through the evidence: his racist dog-whistles and the role his speeches played in the Southport riots; his defence of Andrew Tate — a man accused of rape and human trafficking — as "an important voice for men"; his warm relationships with Viktor Orbán and stated admiration for Vladimir Putin; twenty years as an MEP in which he attended just one out of forty-two fisheries committee meetings, claimed every penny of expenses, and is now collecting an EU pension of £73,000 a year. Yes, really.

I also look at the organisation he leads — Reform UK Party Ltd — which is not a democratic party at all. It is a private limited company with three directors, one of whom is Farage himself, and where ordinary members have no vote on anything. A pathetic little dictatorship.

Then there is the small matter of the £5 million currently being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Watchdog, his rich friends including Harbourne and Aaron Banks, and the question of what exactly they get in return.

And finally — Brexit. The biggest act of economic self-harm in British peacetime history. That is his legacy. The Makerfield by-election is coming. Reform is expected to lose. And Farage knows exactly what that means.


Farage is an odious character. Totally and utterly sickening. — © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Reform UK's Rotten Councillors | Why Farage Will Never Be PM

May 29, 2026

Nigel Farage’s Far-Right Party Is Now Central to British Politics

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Nigel Farage’s anti-immigrant, populist agenda has helped his party, Reform U.K., emerge from the fringe of politics in Britain. But it faces an uphill climb to win power.

This screenshot has been taken from this NYT article. | Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform U.K. Party, last month at a campaign rally in Scotland ahead of British council elections. | Paul Reid/Getty Images
Until recently, Nigel Farage was the leader of small but loud political start-ups in Britain.

For decades, his anti-Europe parties sought to shift the country’s trajectory, using anti-immigrant and nationalist rhetoric to lead the Brexit campaign. But until 2024, Mr. Farage had never been elected to Parliament, and his movement remained on the fringe, unable to dislodge Britain’s two big political parties.

That is all changing.

In thousands of contests for municipal councils across England on May 7, Mr. Farage’s party, Reform U.K., surged past the Tories of Margaret Thatcher fame and grabbed control of councils from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to become, arguably, the most successful political force in the country.

In just 15 hours on Election Day, Reform won 1,454 council races and surged to victories in the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments. Now, Mr. Farage presides over a national party with reasonable ambitions to take control of Parliament in the next general election, which must be held by 2029. That would make him Britain’s next prime minister.

“We have professionalized the party,” he boasted on May 8, calling the election results “a big, big day not just for our party but for a complete reshaping of British politics in every way.” » | Michael D. Shear | Michael D. Shear writes about the fracturing of British politics and the rise of populists in the U.K. and across Europe. | Wednesday, May 27, 2026

It is to be hoped that my fellow compatriots will have the good sense not to vote into power the very man who made them heaps poorer and who robbed them of their rights as citizens of Europe. (Yes, Europe, because the EU and Europe are largely synonymous despite what the far-right loons would have you believe.) But I am not holding my breath!

Nigel Farage is a self-enriching charlatan. His guiding principle, or pole star, is himself and how he can fill his bank accounts and bolster his ego. He is a man of no sound principles. Don’t believe me? Just look at how he enriched himself over a period of about TWENTY years from the EU—from 1999 to 2020—whilst doing sod all for the money, hardly ever attending Parliament in either Brussels or Strasbourg. All the while decrying the institution, and all the while working hard behind the scenes to undermine the institution! What an unprincipled SOB he is! And my compatriots are stupid enough to vote for him!

Add to all this, Nigel Farage did Vladimir Putin’s dirty work for him. Vlad’s wet dream has been to weaken and break-up the European Union, and Farage did his bidding.

Were Farage ever to become the prime minister of this once noble country, it will be a very sad day for British democracy (whatever is left of it), and it will also be the harbinger of dark days ahead.

That he is big chums with the corrupt Trump and his chumps is a further indictment on him and casts a dark shadow on his character and intentions. It is a classic case of birds of a feather flocking together!

For the record, this country’s future lies in Europe and the European Union. It does not lie across the Atlantic with the far-right loons who govern America. Eastward ho! Ir’s written in the stars, my fellow countrymen! — © Mark Alexander

Revealed: Nigel Farage Has Court Judgment for Debt of Almost £10K

May 21, 2026 | Channel 4 News has uncovered evidence that Nigel Farage owes almost £10,000 after a claim was made against him that resulted in a county court judgment in 2024.

Reform UK told us today that Mr Farage never received notification of the claim and had been unaware of the judgment until we brought it to his attention.

The details come amid increased scrutiny on the Reform UK leader's finances after it emerged that he had accepted a £5million gift from a Crypto billionaire.


This all stinks of yet more corruption to me. These days, in politics and at the very top of society, there appears to be nary a person who cannot be bought! Moreover, not only are these people corrupt, but they flaunt their corruption and corruptibility, too — with pride! Shamelessness appears to be en vogue! — © Mark Alexander

Democracy Now! UK Elections: Reform & Greens Surge, Labour Vote Collapses

May 11, 2026

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„Nigel Farage galoppiert nun Richtung Downing Street“

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Nach dem Debakel der Labour-Partei bei den Regionalwahlen in Großbritannien bekräftigt Regierungschef Swinney seine Forderung nach der Unabhängigkeit Schottlands. Sein Land müsse vor „der Wahl einer Farage-Regierung“ geschützt sein.

Nach dem Debakel der Labour-Partei bei den Regionalwahlen in Großbritannien hat der schottische Regierungschef John Swinney seine Forderung nach Unabhängigkeit für seinen Landesteil erneuert. „Nigel Farage galoppiert nun Richtung Downing Street“, sagte Swinney am Samstag mit Blick auf den Chef der rechtspopulistischen Partei Reform UK. Die Aussicht auf eine Regierung unter Führung der Reform UK sei sehr wahrscheinlich. „Wir müssen als unabhängiges Land davor geschützt sein, von der Wahl einer Farage-Regierung betroffen und beeinflusst zu werden.“ » | Quelle: AFP | Samstag, 9. Mai 2026

Hoffentlich irrt sich Herr Swinney! Großbritannien steckt wegen ihm und seinem unsinnigen Brexit schon genug in der Klemme! Ein paar Jahre unter seiner Führung würden die Zerstörung vollends besiegeln! Farage und seine Partei sind Großbritanniens Antwort auf MAGA. Das sagt doch alles! Farage und seine Anhänger würden dem Land immensen Schaden zufügen, wenn man ihnen die Chance dazu gäbe. Hoffentlich ist die britische Wählerschaft nicht so leichtsinnig, für eine Farage-Regierung zu stimmen! — © Mark Alexander