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  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Aubrey Allegretti

    The outgoing head of Reform UK’s Doge unit has urged the party not to make the same “tremendous mistakes” that Elon Musk has in the United States. Nathaniel Fried told The Times he hoped the cost-cutting drive would succeed without him and Zia Yusuf, who stepped down abruptly as party chairman on Thursday. “Hopefully this will create a regional framework which, if they win the election, Reform can replicate on a national scale,” said Fried.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Aubrey Allegretti |Chris Smyth |Oliver Wright

    It was a brief moment of respite. At 3am on Friday the prime minister was woken by a call from an aide informing him that, against the odds, Labour had won the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse Holyrood by-election. There may have been just 602 votes in it, but for Sir Keir Starmer at this stage of his premiership a win is a win. It was, he said, a “fantastic” victory. For one local resident it mattered more than most.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Aubrey Allegretti

    Kemi Badenoch has warned that the Conservatives’ fortunes may get “worse before they get better” as she said that Reform UK was causing difficulties for “all parties”. The Tory leader brushed off the party’s performance in the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse by-election after achieving just 6 per cent — behind Labour, the SNP and Reform — saying the Scottish seat is “not where the fightback starts”.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Max Kendix |Aubrey Allegretti

    Few figures in Reform UK were more evangelical about the prospects of Nigel Farage as a future prime minister than Zia Yusuf. “Not only will Nigel become prime minister, he will become prime minister with hundreds of MPs who are under no uncertain terms as to why they’re being elected,” the chairman of Reform UK said last year. That unswerving faith in Farage came to an abrupt end last night after Yusuf found himself embroiled in the latest in a series of brutal internal party rows.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Aubrey Allegretti

    Reform’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, has quit after being embroiled in a row with one of the party’s MPs.He wrote on X: “11 months ago I became Chairman of Reform. I’ve worked full time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30 per cent, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results.

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Aubrey Allegretti
Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti
14 Jun 25

RT @patrickkmaguire: Am told the national grooming gang inquiry recommended by Louise Casey will also coordinate a series of separate local…

Aubrey Allegretti
Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti
14 Jun 25

RT @Steven_Swinford: BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has announced a national inquiry into grooming gangs after a damning report explicitly lin…

Aubrey Allegretti
Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti
14 Jun 25

Now confirmed: PM Keir Starmer says: “I’ve never said we should not look again at any issue. I wanted to be assured that on the question of any inquiry. That’s why I asked Louise Casey, who I hugely respect, to do an audit. “She’s looked at the material, and she has come to the

Aubrey Allegretti
Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti

Read my full story about Baroness Casey’s report and her recommendation the PM should launch a new national inquiry into grooming gangs: https://t.co/31NdFvY8RH