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As I Please

By: Chris McLaughlin

As Reform UK soars in the polls and Muslim communities come under attack, Starmer’s Labour remains alarmingly complacent about undermining what gives the far right an advantage.

After meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer expressed admiration for the Italian prime minister's plans to deport refugees to camps in Albania. (Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico / Bloomberg / Getty Images)

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The scene on the terrace bar of the House of Commons was enough to chill the blood of any watching democrat. Here was Nigel Farage’s threatened ‘bridgehead into Parliament’, the Reform UK leader and his four-strong band of newly elected MPs quaffing pints and joshing, as comfortably at home as though they belonged in the […]

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The scene on the terrace bar of the House of Commons was enough to chill the blood of any watching democrat. Here was Nigel Farage’s threatened ‘bridgehead into Parliament’, the Reform UK leader and his four-strong band of newly elected MPs quaffing pints and joshing, as comfortably at home as though they belonged in the […]

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The scene on the terrace bar of the House of Commons was enough to chill the blood of any watching democrat. Here was Nigel Farage’s threatened ‘bridgehead into Parliament’, the Reform UK leader and his four-strong band of newly elected MPs quaffing pints and joshing, as comfortably at home as though they belonged in the […]

The scene on the terrace bar of the House of Commons was enough to chill the blood of any watching democrat. Here was Nigel Farage’s threatened ‘bridgehead into Parliament’, the Reform UK leader and his four-strong band of newly elected MPs quaffing pints and joshing, as comfortably at home as though they belonged in the […]

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