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🚨BREAKING: Rupert Lowe’s Restore party receives its first political donation of £500,000 from British businessman Simon Galbraith

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@theipaper It is not allowed to film or take photos anywhere on parliamentary estate without proper authorisation, except at certain fixed point around Westminster. It is understood that Farage did not get permission to film the video he later posted to his X account.

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🚨NEW: Nigel Farage breaks House of Commons rules by filming and posting a video on Parliament roof

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@guardian Farage has maintained that payments sent from Cottrell for social media work were personal and not political, but this leaves the public wondering why he said the investigation is widening when that doesn’t yet appear to be the case.

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🚨NEW: Questions raised over why Farage claimed a second investigation is taking place over his finances

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@guardian This seems to regard payments from convicted fraudster and friend of Farage’s, George Cottrell, who is banned from giving political donations. Although, the political standards commissioner has not yet decided whether to widen the investigation or not.

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🚨BREAKING: A YouGov poll asked the public to describe Nigel Farage in three words: 71% of participants used at least one negative term, and 27% used at least one positive.

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🚨ICYMI: Conservatives planning to scrap net-zero policies in return for cheaper electricity, even if it means more gas usage.

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@CarbonBrief (2/2) and the Onward report suggests that a new spike could increase fuel costs in the gas-reliant scenario by another £6bn in 2040.

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This makes the 38th Reform councillor to have left their position since May.

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🚨NEW: Reform Wakefield Councillor Jacob Padget has been suspended, after backlash from a graphic he posted on Facebook referring to women who have had abortions as “mothers who murder their children”

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🚨BREAKING: In a MAGA rally in Michigan, USA, Vice President JD Vance says we are about to “celebrate” the anniversary of 9/11.

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@DeSmog Tether is currently trying to secure a multi billion dollar injection of private finance, which would make the company, and its shareholders much more valuable.

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🚨NEW: Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused of shaping laws to benefit cryptocurrency firm linked to Reform donor Christopher Harborne

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@DeSmog According to Bloomberg, Lutnick used his position to shape legislation that helped Tether. Harborne owns 12% of Tether and is Reform’s biggest donor. Lutnick’s family owns Cantor Fitzgerald, a finance company that also holds a stake in Tether.