Plus: Trade unionists love being scolded by a Labour leader
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Athena Stavrou, Political Reporter
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Athena Stavrou, Political Reporter
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Reform's Welsh leader resigns |
Reform UK is looking for a new person to lead the party in Wales, after their current leader resigned following an arrest over the weekend.
Dan Thomas, who has been the party’s Welsh leader since February, stood down after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour.
The politician, who was released on bail without charge, stressed he had done "nothing wrong", and insisted he would remain a member of the Senedd.
Welsh Labour said the news demonstrated Nigel Farage's "appalling judgment", while a Reform member of the Senedd defected to Plaid Cymru following the announcement.
Senior figures in the party are yet to comment on the shocking resignation, though there is no doubt there will be many questions coming their way.
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo has quietly established a hotspot for Britain's powerful right-wing players in the heart of Westminster. Katie Rosseinsky takes a look at this mysterious location and who is really coming and going through its doors
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Keir Starmer’s constituency should be ripe for another by-election triumph for the Greens, but polls suggest it is Labour’s fight to lose, as Sean O’Grady explains
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As the number of people with ADHD who receive disability payments but aren’t required to work hits 100,000, entrepreneur and business coach John Spencer Williams says a diagnosis shouldn’t consign people to unemployment… but you should quit your office job
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What else you need to know
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- Health Secretary Yvette Cooper says plans are under way to install “cot cams” in neonatal units after a damning report found hospital staff could have prevented three of killer nurse Lucy Letby’s murders
- The state pension is set to rise by 3.9 per cent next April in a move that will make it taxable for the first time.
- A third of British voters are now prepared to vote tactically at the next general election as fear of a Reform UK government continues to fuel British politics.
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Trade unionists need to be scolded by a Labour leader
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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Louise Haigh, who is in effect deputy prime minister, stood in for Andy Burnham when she addressed the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.
The prime minister cancelled his keynote speech at the last minute because of the death of his father, which was right and proper – but it meant that he missed a chance to deliver some important messages to an important audience.
Haigh didn’t deliver them either.
Read the whole thing here.
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