Farage admits that the undercover report on donations 'looks bad'
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In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Nigel Farage acknowledged that the comments by James Orr and Dan Jukes were “injudicious at best” and admitted that the optics of the undercover filming don’t look good for his party.
“This looks bad, as does the sale of peerages, as does government contracts for donations.
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We are not the first people to be involved in a row over donations,” he said.
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The BBC aired the full interview during its politics show on Sunday, having released an excerpt of it on Saturday.
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The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said there will be no bailout for Jaguar Land Rover amid reports that the UK’s largest car manufacturer is to cut thousands of jobs.
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Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, was accused of “pretty straightforward racism” by Reynolds over comments about a potential Labour byelection candidate who was born in Somalia.
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Javier Milei’s threats to the Falkland Islands make it even more important that Andy Burnham increase defence spending immediately, according to the Labour chair of the defence committee.
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We are closing the blog now, but you can read more of our UK politics coverage here.
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In an earlier post, we mentioned that thousands of jobs are to be cut at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the British carmaker slashes costs after a slump in sales.
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My colleague Angus Thomson has more details about the expected job cuts in this story.
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JLR informed workers and their union on Saturday that the company would be opening a voluntary redundancy programme for salaried and management team members, the BBC and Sunday Times reported.
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As many as 4,000 jobs would be cut over two years, the Times reported.
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JLR told the BBC it was yet to confirm the number but the company, which is owned by the Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, needed to save about £1.7bn over the next two years.
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Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, told the BBC she and the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, would meet JLR’s chief executive, PB Balaji, next week, after a weekend of intensive talks to mitigate job losses.
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About 30,000 of the company’s 44,000 employees are based in the UK.
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Most of them work at 14 plants across the West Midlands, where the company is one of the region’s largest employers.
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Sagal Abdi-Wali arrived in Camden as a child refugee from Somalia.
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She has worked for more than a decade as a volunteer and trustee for local charities and is a governor of two schools in the borough, according to Labour.
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She was first elected as a councillor in 2022 and became the leader of the council in May, when she said: “Camden has been my home for 35 years.
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It is the place that gave my family sanctuary, that welcomed us, and that has shaped so much of who I am, what I stand for and what inspired my commitment to public service and to working for the community that welcomed us.”
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Labour is expected to announce its candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras byelection by Wednesday.
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It faces a battle against the Green party to retain the seat as Zack Polanski, its leader in England and Wales, is expected to be confirmed as its candidate.
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Zia Yusuf’s post about Camden council leader is ‘straightforward racism’, minister says
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, has been accused of “pretty straightforward racism” by a Cabinet minister over comments about a potential Labour byelection candidate who was born in Somalia.
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Yusuf wrote on X last week: “The front runner being foisted on the people of Holborn by Labour to replace the former Prime Minister Keir Starmer in our Parliament was born in Somalia.
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Do you understand what’s happening?”
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The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, was asked what he thought of Yusuf’s tweet during an interview with Jon Sopel on Sky News this morning.
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“Pretty straightforward racism, isn’t it?” Reynolds said, adding that the potential Labour candidate had “spent decades in this country” and made a “huge contribution to her local community”.
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Robert Jenrick, Reform’s economic spokesperson, later denied his colleague’s comments were racist and suggested it was legitimate to question the loyalties of foreign-born candidates.
“I don’t know this person, so I’m not here to cast aspersions upon her, but I do want people to sit in our parliament who are entirely committed to our country,” Jenrick said.
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Falklands row shows urgent need to commit to 3% target, says Labour defence committee chair
Kiran Stacey
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Javier Milei’s threats to the Falkland Islands make it even more important that Andy Burnham increase defence spending immediately, according to the Labour chair of the defence committee.
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But he said Burnham’s plans remain mired in confusion after the prime minister appeared to reassure him that the 2030 target would be hit, only for Downing Street to later retreat.
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“It’s important the prime minister and the chancellor don’t defer those decisions to next year,” Dhesi told the Guardian.
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“We’ve seen Germany publicly expose Russia for the drone incident [in Leipzig].
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Now we’ve got a threat from Argentina saying they are looking to take over the Falklands.
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We owe it to the Falklands – they say it’s their right to self-determination.
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It’s important that we also defend them from this threat.”
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick also condemned the disruption of the Port of Dover by masked demonstrators – but said he understood the frustration with small boats crossing the Channel.
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Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning programme, Reform’s economic spokesperson said:
I absolutely do.
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I’ve always hated people obstructing other people doing their daily life, whether it’s Just Stop Oil or whatever.
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And I don’t like people going around in balaclavas, which is obviously very intimidating.
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