Joe Pike

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Joe Pike |Chris Graham

The nationalities of foreign criminals in the UK are due to be published for the first time under plans being unveiled later. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is understood to have ordered officials to publish the data, including crimes that have been committed, by the end of the year. There were more than 19,000 foreign offenders awaiting deportation at the end of last year, up from almost 18,000 when the Conservatives left office, figures show.

2 days ago | bbc.com | Joe Pike |Chris Graham

Nationalities of foreign criminals to be publishedJoe Pike & Chris GrahamPA MediaThe nationalities of foreign criminals living in the UK will be published for the first time under plans to be unveiled later. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is understood to have ordered officials to publish data by the end of the year, showing the nationalities and crimes of those awaiting deportation.

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Joe Pike

Minister who bet on election in line for peerageJoe PikeReutersA former Conservative cabinet minister who admitted placing three bets on the date of the 2024 general election is set to be awarded a seat in the House of Lords. Sir Alister Jack, who served as Scottish Secretary under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, is expected to be given a peerage in Sunak's resignation honours list.

1 month ago | nickcohen.substack.com | Joshua Nevett |Joe Pike |Nick Cohen

“Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew, and dog will have his day”HamletNigel Farage is finding out that even the most manipulative leaders can be undone by dog-whistle politics. The shock may finish him off. For more than a decade, dog-whistling has served Farage well. He has used coded and suggestive messages to reassure the British far right that he is on its side, while presenting himself to the wider electorate as an unthreatening bloke who just tells it like it is.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joshua Nevett |Joe Pike

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage put on a brave face this week, as he sought to put a blazing row with one of the party's now suspended MPs behind him. The party is still neck-and-neck with Labour in the polls, and on Monday, it showed off 29 councillors who had recently defected to Reform UK. While Farage acknowledged there had been "a little bit of turbulence", he stressed the upset was "very much at the edges". AdvertisementBut does the disquiet within the party go deeper than he suggested?