Reform UK accuses prison of 'working against patriotic British people' after refusing to remove books that help foreign criminals gain British citizenship

🔮 Zia Yusuf claimed that ‘the establishment is working against patriotic British people’ after a designated specifically for foreign prisoners refused to remove books and practice papers on how to pass the Life in the UK Test - a key stepping stone to become a UK citizen. After learning that HMP Maidstone had purchased the books for its inmates using taxpayers’ money, Reform wrote to the governor, Paul Mason, asking him to remove from the prison library ‘books and study material which may overtly help foreign national prisoners prepare for the ‘Life in the UK ‘ test and for the wider naturalisation process.

🔮 The hijab row erupted as: - The Tory conference gets under way in Birmingham on Sunday, with Kemi Badenoch telling the MoS she will cut £13 billion from the welfare budget by axing disability benefits for mild health conditions such as ADHD; - The Conservatives announced plans to end the childcare 'cliff edge' which leaves families tens of thousands of pounds worse off as soon as one parent's earnings exceed £100,000; - Nigel Farage is facing an 'imminent' decision from a standards watchdog over whether he breached Westminster's rules by not declaring a £5 million donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire; - Reform UK sparked a fresh row with the BBC after Question Time host Fiona Bruce reportedly admitted that despite the broadcaster's claims of 'robust' vetting, Left-wingers got into the studio audience by pretending to be Reform supporters, only to barrack party representatives on air.

🔮 The 62-year-old is said to have told a group of panellists and Westminster aides after the recording of Thursday's show that Left-wing supporters were telling producers they were Reform supporters in order to secure a place in the audience – and would then lambast the Reform panellist as soon as the cameras were rolling.

🔮 While Mr Burnham used his party conference speech last week to pledge to ‘adjust’ the triple-lock pensions guarantee, Ms Badenoch will vow to keep the existing system in place – targeting the proliferating benefits available for mental health conditions instead.

🔮 China, led by Xi Jinping, could disable police cars, buses and ambulances at the flick of a switch, sources told The Mail on Sunday

🔮 A Green Party source confirmed: 'We have a phone number for a small number of people if they are worried and a room if they would like to use it.

🔮 This month, former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove warned that the loss of British manufacturing left the country dangerously reliant on China for critical technology, and said it had the capacity to plunge Britain into chaos by hacking the National Grid. Sir Richard said: 'Such peacetime dependencies give China strategic leverage, and in a crisis it gives them weapons of mass disruption which could literally bring this country to a standstill.' Mr Miliband's views on China have compounded tensions with the Trump administration, where officials have dubbed him 'Ed Miliwatt' due to his Net Zero beliefs.

🔮 But the direct option of increasing income tax, favoured by the Treasury because of its simplicity, would breach Labour's 2024 manifesto.

🔮 Ahead of the pair’s first face-to-face encounter at the United Nations, one White House source told The Mail on Sunday they were trying to ‘limit the President’s exposure’ to Mr Burnham, because the Prime Minister ‘will not kiss the ring in the way Donald likes’.

🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Nigel Farage would bypass any Labour ban on foreign donors to his Reform UK party by setting up a trade union that would funnel the money, one of his most senior aides said on Saturday night.