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Sun 17 May 2026

MPs may be forced to register pre-election donations in wake of Farage’s undeclared £5m gift

Sun 17 May 2026

What divides and unites Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham?

Sun 17 May 2026

Crypto tycoon Ben Delo heads home to UK to fund Reform after ‘tinpot’ donations cap by Labour

Sun 17 May 2026

The gentleman is for turning: Farage changes story over £5m donation as investigation launched

Sun 17 May 2026

‘Britain’s future lies with Europe’: Streeting vows to make rejoining EU key goal if he becomes PM

Sun 17 May 2026

Makerfield byelection could be ‘wild West’ of campaign financing

Sun 17 May 2026

A problem with the truth

Sun 17 May 2026

Nigel Farage facing threat of double investigation into billionaire backer’s £5m gift

Wed 13 May 2026

Brexit has been a disaster – but there is a path to a new deal with Europe

Mon 11 May 2026

Voters react angrily to Reform UK's polling day newspaper takeovers

Sun 10 May 2026

Reform’s march heralds political fragmentation as two-party system pushed to brink

Sun 10 May 2026

From crypto-millions to TikTok charm: the new face of British populism

Sun 10 May 2026

Starmer should stay

Sun 10 May 2026

Bigots hounded me out of Bolton as a young man. I won’t let it happen again

Sun 10 May 2026

Smashed and pulverised: Labour faces an existential crisis after election wipeout

Sun 10 May 2026

‘Extremist’ Reform candidates elected to councils across country

Sun 10 May 2026

Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation

Sat 9 May 2026

Keir Starmer: I want a decade in Downing Street to renew Britain

Sat 9 May 2026

Nigel Farage hails ‘historic political change’ as Reform surge masks internal fears and paranoia

Sat 9 May 2026

Video: a truly, madly, deeply bad day for Labour

Sat 9 May 2026

SNP holds on to power as Scots stay home for ‘meh’ election

Fri 8 May 2026

Watching the teal wall being built in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Thu 7 May 2026

Questions raised about ‘security risk’ to Farage in row over £5m gift from crypto tycoon

Sun 3 May 2026

The Observer view: Farage and the price of Britain’s rules

Sun 3 May 2026

‘You’re a mug for playing by the rules’: disillusioned voters split left and right

Sun 3 May 2026

Police assessing evidence on £100k donations made to Robert Jenrick

Sun 3 May 2026

Britain’s fragmented future: why this year’s local elections will be the messiest yet

Sun 3 May 2026

After a century together, Wales and Labour face a brutal divorce

Sun 26 Apr 2026

Reform can’t keep its councillors

Wed 22 Apr 2026

Profiting in plain sight, Farage could earn a fortune by talking up bitcoin shares

Sun 19 Apr 2026

Farage accused of ‘playing with fire’ after claiming Reform UK lost election due to sectarianism

Tue 31 Mar 2026

Transparency groups demand further curbs on party coffers

Sun 29 Mar 2026

After the donor cap and crypto ban, what if we all chipped in to fund our political parties?

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Labour party caps donations by Britons living overseas

Fri 27 Mar 2026

Leaders flip-flop over Iran war as party falls out of step with supporters

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Britain’s only way out of this mess is a shift to the centre

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Reform and Farage are losing support. There are two key reasons why

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into cash and hide donors

Sat 21 Mar 2026

Reform plans ‘ideological purge’ of Whitehall

Sat 14 Mar 2026

Keir Starmer is a punching bag of the US president

Mon 9 Mar 2026

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a money-making machine

Fri 6 Mar 2026

Not content with Brexit harm, Reform plans pensions raid

Sun 1 Mar 2026

After the Ayatollah

Sun 1 Mar 2026

The invisible man whose millions are transforming British politics

Sun 1 Mar 2026

Gorton and Denton will force Labour to rethink – it is no longer the only anti-Reform option

Sun 1 Mar 2026

Reform’s ICE-style ‘deportation command’ would be costly and inefficient

Thu 26 Feb 2026

Fear and loathing in Gorton and Denton

Sun 22 Feb 2026

Spooked by Reform, Labour may have cut net migration too far

Mon 9 Feb 2026

Reform is turning into a recycling centre for toxic Tories

Sun 1 Feb 2026

Britain’s deprived areas need attention for their own sake, not merely to beat Reform

Sun 1 Feb 2026

The New Right’s vision of community depends on obedience

Sat 24 Jan 2026

Robert Jenrick’s defection is a coup for Reform – but there are risks too

Mon 19 Jan 2026

The right can’t unite. It’s now a fight to the death between the Tories and Reform

Sun 18 Jan 2026

Council tax hikes loom in areas run by Reform

Sun 18 Jan 2026

Defection of ‘damaged goods’ Jenrick and Zahawi leads to grumbling in Reform

Sun 18 Jan 2026

Labour needs to rediscover that EU membership works

Fri 16 Jan 2026

Dear Nigel: When a woman asks if she’s being too something, the answer is yes

Thu 15 Jan 2026

A traitor has been banished – but Jenrick sacking could haunt Tories

Thu 15 Jan 2026

White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors

Sun 11 Jan 2026

Banning all political crypto donations will thwart hostile states, PM told

Sun 11 Jan 2026

Chatter of dethroning the prime minister is easy. Doing so is much harder

Sun 4 Jan 2026

Democracy’s ‘dark matter’ will decide the future of politics

Wed 31 Dec 2025

Nigel Farage’s Hitler obsession was something else

Sat 13 Dec 2025

On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’

Sat 13 Dec 2025

Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad

Sun 7 Dec 2025

Will the leftish parties unite to stop Nigel Farage from becoming PM?

Sun 7 Dec 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon

More MEPs investigated over Russian bribes

Sun 23 Nov 2025

Doge-style cost-cutting units ‘haven’t found any waste’

Sun 26 Oct 2025

Two elections, two stories – and neither good for Labour

Sun 26 Oct 2025

Nigel Farage stages ‘strike’ despite date for next PMQs question

Fri 24 Oct 2025

‘Jail is inevitable’ for politician awaiting bribery sentence

Thu 23 Oct 2025

Lawless London

Have Reform found that running councils is harder than it looks?

The Conservatives must stop imitating Reform

Sun 12 Oct 2025

First crypto donation to major UK party

Sat 11 Oct 2025

Kemi who? Time is running out for Badenoch

Sun 5 Oct 2025

Keir Starmer must show he has a strategy to win

Sun 5 Oct 2025

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’: Farage denies not declaring extra earnings

Sat 4 Oct 2025

Reform councils axing net zero targets

Fri 3 Oct 2025

Nigel Farage gets a taste of economic reality on his day out at the Bank

Mon 29 Sept 2025

Levelling up is the way to beat Reform

Sun 28 Sept 2025

The working-class despair fuelling the rise of the far right

Sun 21 Sept 2025

To tackle Reform, Labour must fly the flag for inclusive patriotism

Sun 21 Sept 2025

Tories are ‘over’, says MP Kruger as he defects to Reform

Mon 15 Sept 2025

Nigel Farage is wary of the far right, and with good reason

Sun 14 Sept 2025

The UK’s phoney war over human rights

Sat 13 Sept 2025

Reform conference sponsors may have breached company law

Thu 11 Sept 2025

Eccles ‘tactical bellwether’ in 2029 fight against Reform

Thu 11 Sept 2025

My home in Clacton is my partner’s, says Farage

Mon 8 Sept 2025

The Observer View: flags of convenience

Mon 8 Sept 2025

Covid jab may have caused royal cancers, says Reform speaker

Sun 7 Sept 2025

The Observer View: face down Reform

Mon 1 Sept 2025

Victory for the Epping protestors

How to stop voters turning on you? Pick something to solve

Sun 24 Aug 2025

There’s gold in bullion adverts for fill-your-boots Farage

Sun 24 Aug 2025

Farage’s £13,000 speech to anti-abortion extremists

Sat 23 Aug 2025

Police need clear guidelines to fight fake news

Mon 11 Aug 2025