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🚨BREAKING: Zia Yusuf announces that a Reform government would grant immunity from prosecution to those in the Armed Forces for their actions during combat.

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🚨NEW: Anna Isaac, The Guardian’s city editor who unearthed the £5m gift undeclared by Nigel Farage, has been banned from Reform’s conference this week

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🚨NEW: Journalists who had been rejected from entering Reform’s conference in Birmingham, were briefly accepted, only to be rejected once again.

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@Labour4PR If the country were to change to proportional representation, Reform would be less likely to win a majority.

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🚨NEW: A National Commission on Electoral Reform may be ‘out of scope’ of the Representation of the People Bill.

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@Labour4PR Almost 200 MPs joined the call for a National Commission, to change the parliamentary system from first past the post to proportional representation.

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🚨NEW: Police respond to Reform’s ‘Operation Vanguard’ saying the areas involved are safer than they were three years ago.

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@BylineTimes (1/2) However, the police have distanced themselves from this, with a spokesperson telling Byline Times: “Our Neighbourhood Policing Teams regularly patrol through the town centres each day, including at key times, for reassurance and to deter people from committing crime or

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@pressjournal This makes 39 Reform councillors lost since May.

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🚨NEW: Aberdeenshire Reform councillor Robbie Withey has left the party, due to language used around immigration being “too strong”

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@pressjournal Withey said: “They are absolutely right that we need to stop people coming here for the wrong reasons.

“I just don’t like the language they use.

“If they ever get into power, they’re going to realise there’s a whole lot more they need to deal with.”

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You can find his article here: https://t.co/oHM9bLm3Ps

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🚨BREAKING: Reform deny journalists entry to their conference after publishing negative content about them.

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Peter Geoghegan, who revealed that Isabel Oakeshott privately called Reform donor Christopher Harborne “untrustworthy” was then rejected from covering the conference.

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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.