When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

He called for others to resign over tax errors If he has any integrity, he will resign If not, Farage must sack hypocrite Tice #bbclaurak

Tory MP Alex Burghart suggesting 18 months isn’t long enough to turn the Tory Party around but the exact same duration *is* more than enough for Labour to turn around a country crippled by 14 years of a government he played a role in #bbclaurak

It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves

Little rich of #bbclaurak to complain about Starmer not yet correcting the record in Parliament… Can’t quite remember her criticism of Boris Johnson who was accused of repeatedly (at least 12 times) making inaccurate statements regarding employment figures & never correcting it

Jaw-dropping reporting by The Atlantic about FBI Director Kash Patel.

A lot of right wingers seem to think Starmer resigning will somehow bring down the entire govt & a GE will be called for next week They’re the same right wingers who cheered on a Tory govt that went through 3 PM’s in less than 2 months whilst insisting a GE was an impossibility

🔴EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch forced to suspend the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after I uncovered vile messages he posted telling British MPs to "go back to Pakistan". William Jackson repeatedly targeted British MPs of Asian origin demanding their deportation

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations. Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

JD Vance certainly has some touch. 😂 The Curb Your Enthusiasm theme just follows him around.

Congratulations Hungary. You sent Orban, Putin and Trump the message they needed to hear. And you made even more of a fool of JD Vance than he made of himself. Top work. Thank you.

Their buyer’s remorse is pathetic & meaningless. The continuing promotion & prominence of inexplicably self-confident idiots, aka ‘Brexiters’, will undermine our national interest for generations.

Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey: “This idiotic war prosecuted by Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu - initially supported by Kemi Badenoch & Nigel Farage, let’s not forget - has been a total disaster. Let me give some praise to our PM, he was right to keep us out of this war” #bbclaurak

So… #bbclaurak

Quite a moment: Melania becomes the first member of the administration trying to distract the public’s attention back to Epstein in order to get them to stop talking about Iran.

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

Nothing will be OK until we have a sane person running the world and no good purpose is served pretending otherwise.

The Fart of the Deal

Remember that Nigel Farage is Donald Trump's biggest supporter. Remember that Nigel campaigned for Trump and even wants to mimic all his policies. This is the sort of insanity Reform want to bring to the United Kingdom.

This would be a huge contract for JCB. In other news, the JBC group has so far given £1.1 million to the Conservative party and Kemi Badenoch since she became its leader

Your regular reminder that this time last month Kemi Badenoch told her party's spring conference that Keir Starmer should back Trump's actions in Iran "immediately and unequivocally"

Been thinking about this headline and this paper. Beyond disgusted by both. It’s the most unpatriotic, irresponsible, ridiculously rightwing shitrag of them all… and we have several. But the Daily Mail is a real prejudice-peddling menace, dressed up as a newspaper. Shameful to buy or read it.

Reasonably sure that within the past two weeks, the BBC have given a platform to more entirely unelected Reform representatives than they have actually elected ones #bbclaurak

“Why won’t you tell people to start panic buying??” #bbclaurak

Filling your car up is now more expensive as a direct consequence of an illegal war that Kemi Badenoch was desperate for us to join only two weeks ago #bbclaurak

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

The Tories have now got to that stage in their demise where they appear on national television and attempt to justify racist tweets #bbclaurak

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

“Why would Israel says something that’s not true?” asks Laura Kuenssberg with a completely straight face #bbclaurak

Epic cover from The Economist. Trump will be furious.

Simon Marks on #LBC: “Short of Brexit, it’s hard to imagine a country committing a more damaging own goal than sparking a war in the Middle East without any notion of how to end it” *chef’s kiss*

These are the people Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are standing up for

“Those that don’t work have plenty of time to come protest” says Farage to a room full of people not at work

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

So, in another ugly little tantrum, Farage has paused his video-grift due to “security concerns”. His own, apparently. Not the national security threat of having a prominent far right tart of a politician saying god knows what to god knows who for money. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I have met quite a few people who know or have interaction Farage - some of them know him very well indeed. The impression you get from those conversations is "control freak" and "quick to anger". Here it is on display.

Churchill died in 1965. He doesn’t give a fuck.

Utterly baffling briefing just now with Kemi Badenoch’s spokesman in which he repeatedly insists that “we’re in the war” with Iran and that she supports it, while simultaneously denying she ever said she wants to join the war she thinks we're already in

Starmer on the Conservatives and Reform: “Two Parties packed with failed Tories, led by leaders not fit to be Prime Minister” #PMQs #PoliticsLive

The Tories oversaw a colossal increase in the cost of almost everything during their disastrous 14 year tenure To attempt to criticise Labour for a tax rise that hasn’t happened is a truly bizarre piece of political point scoring #PoliticsLive #PMQs

It's now blatant and open. A wannabe theocracy trying to topple an actual theocracy.

Never in the history of humanity has there been a man as confident whilst simultaneously as wrong on everything as Jacob Rees-Mogg #politicslive

The man who insisted sovereignty was the most important thing in existence now wants the UK to blindly follow the US into an illegal war #politicslive

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just debris from a successful interception. If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

The people who told us austerity was crucial, Brexit would be brilliant, Boris Johnson’s amazing and Liz Truss is an economic genius, are now insisting the country should join an illegal war #BBCLauraK

It’s now almost 2 months since Nigel Farage was scheduled to appear on #bbclaurak as part of her Leaders Interview but pulled out due to being “under the weather” He’s currently in America supporting a foreign president over his own country