News Round-Up
2 June 2025
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2 June 2025
by Will Jones
The Independent's John Rentoul's £6 billion Net Zero claim, aimed at rubbishing Nigel Farage's £40 billion estimate, is torn apart by Paul Homewood – who shows the real cost could be double that, at £80 billion a year.
Ed Miliband has torn into Tony Blair for being "defeatist" on Net Zero – even while admitting he could lose his seat to Reform, who want to scrap the agenda altogether.
Nigel Farage has set out Reform UK's election pitch with a flurry of headline pledges – scrap Net Zero, axe DEI, lift the two-child cap and raise tax thresholds to support families and workers.
Ed Miliband is plotting a radical shake-up of Britain's electricity market that could scrap thousands of rural pylons, slash Net Zero costs and blunt Reform UK's countryside insurgency.
Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf says the party will use every lever available – including legal action – to stop asylum seekers being housed in areas where it now controls councils.
Reform could learn some valuable lessons from the Danish People's Party, says Tom Jones. By focusing on immigration, it forced the Left to clamp down on asylum seekers. Reform, by contrast, seems chaotic and unfocused.
Keir Starmer should set aside the European Convention on Human Rights and deport all foreign criminals, Labour MP Jonathan Brash has said, as Left-wing voices opposing the 'criminal rights' charter grow.
James Leary went to the inaugural meeting of the new Reform UK local party in Brighton and, in spite of a strained relationship with the party's leaders, he was impressed.
The Reform civil war has further escalated after Ben Habib, who was ousted as Deputy Leader by Nigel Farage, is considering joining forces with suspended MP Rupert Lowe to form a new party in a challenge to Farage.
Reform UK was in meltdown last night after the party revealed it had stripped the whip from Rupert Lowe, one of its MPs, amid allegations of bullying staff and violent threats, which he denies, saying he has been "knifed".
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