Richard Tice and Warwickshire County Council Leader George Finch are hosting a press conference on Reform’s ‘plan to bring back civic pride’. There will be a Q&A afterwards. Watch along above…
The latest from More in Common has Reform up a point with Labour and the Tories tied, down two points and one point respectively:
| Reform UK | 30% | |
| Labour | 20% | |
| Conservative | 20% | |
| Lib Dem | 12% | |
| Green | 11% | |
| Other/Ind | 3% | |
| SNP | 3% | |
Concurrently Farage’s personal net approval ratings have dropped to their lowest since the election on -20. Starmer is on -47, Polanski -25, Davey -10. Badenoch leads the pack on -8…
Masked rioters set fire to houses and vehicles last night in Belfast in the aftermath of the ‘attempted beheading’ knife attack on Monday. The fire service has so far responded to 62 incidents across the city. The second night of disorder in just the last eight days, following the scenes in Southampton after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s killer.
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable Jon Boutcher said the suspect is believed to have travelled from Sudan via Paris and Dublin before arriving in Belfast by bus in February 2023. He then applied for asylum and was granted leave to remain in the UK until 2028.
Hat-tip: Charlie Peters
The government’s flagship “single front door” for international finance, which was sold as a public-private partnership drawing in the City’s biggest firms, has no private sector staff involvement.
At its October 2025 launch, the Office for Investment: Financial Services was billed as “a public-private partnership” bringing together the OfI, HM Treasury, No10, the PRA, the FCA, the City of London Corporation, and “secondees from leading professional services firms.” Guido’s FOI Unit can reveal the private sector half never turned up…
As of last month the unit’s secondees were: two from the Treasury, two from the FCA, and two from the PRA. None from a professional services firm or the City of London Corporation…
The government repeatedly described the wider Office for Investment as “a joint unit of HM Treasury, the Department for Business and Trade, and Number 10.” Guido’s FOI Unit has found that No10 claims it has no involvement, and the Treasury pays nothing to its running costs…
Press releases at its launch claimed it could bring in £10 billion – the unit confirms it has no such target. Meanwhile Santander boss warns that the British tax regime on banks as making “no economic sense” with additional punitive levies and the threat of more bank taxes from Reeves, who is pitching to the left. No number of potemkin joint units could fix that damage…
Every month, we publish the power rankings of all the leading lights in Reform based on our readers’ responses. Click here to fill in the survey, and the results will be published at the end of the month. Here’s how last month played out…
We’re offering £10 off your Guido membership once you complete it. If you’re not a Guido member yet, that’s a whole month as a Co-Conspirator for free. You’ll get instant access to all our exclusive content, including Labour Wars and The Right Angle…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
