Huge turnout for Jacob Rees Mogg at the Reform party conference

Reform chairman David Bull a little late arriving for his welcome speech at the party conference – can imagine he's writing up a reaction to the Rayner news

Unfortunate comma placement for Reform's chairman in the conference agenda

Last weekend, two men in homemade English flag balaclavas were filmed running around Walsall in the West Midlands, painting red crosses on white surfaces. On social media, they were called 'absolute idiots' by some - but others said they were 'saving the country'. (Pics from SWNS)

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will present Michael Crawford, best known as Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, with a Kennedy Center Honor later this year.

Israeli leader of the opposition (and former PM) Yair Lapid tells the Foreign Affairs Committee "I don't know if we'll ever know for sure" how much damage the US bombs did to Iran's nuclear capabilities, and says "some" uranium was "smuggled" away before strikes

EXCLUSIVE: There are no plans to make a waxwork of Keir Starmer at Madame Tussauds – because they can't be sure he'll be relevant for long enough metro.co.uk/2025/06/04/n...

Have a look at my thoughts from today – and why I reckon Reform actually are here to stay metro.co.uk/2025/05/02/r...

Quite a few seats remaining in the arena where Nigel Farage is launching the Reform UK local election campaign

We're now running 50 minutes late at Reform UK's big local elections campaign launch – I'm told it's due to protesters outside

Writing in Metro, Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the government's decision to boost defence spending "To me, what they really mean is that taxpayers' money will be paid directly to arms companies. These are the only victors of war." metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...

Happy St David's Day – why not mark it by reading my interview with Lord Kinnock for Labour's 125th birthday? Also featuring two other Welsh giants of 20th century politics in Nye Bevan ("the best of the human race") and Roy Jenkins ("impressive but self-indulgent") metro.co.uk/2025/02/27/n...

Seems Starmer managed to contradict both Trump – saying European countries won't be repaid their Ukraine support – and Vance – saying the UK is proud of its tradition of free speech – with very little pushback

The prime minister himself will be making a ministerial statement in the House of Commons at 12.30pm today – quite an unusual sight. The topic is defence and security, so we can probably expect Ukraine to come up ahead of his Trump visit later this week. But we'll have to wait an hour to find out

BREAKING: Donald Trump has lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a "dictator" and a "moderately successful comedian" in a post on Truth Social "I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job"

John Healey at the IfG on the US backstop in Ukraine: "It is only the US that can provide the deterrent to Putin that will prevent him attacking again." Says the detail is "being developed", but he won't go into it as "the one thing I don't want to do is make Putin any wiser"

Government spox responds to group of Labour MPs calling for four-day week to be included in the Employment Rights Bill: "We have no plans to manage a four-day work week for five days' pay – not in government nor in any other sector. (cont'd)

Wouldn't mind a job as the newly announced Canadian fentanyl czar – stop a kilogram every three weeks or so and you're dandy

Ach, David Lynch. I'll try to track down Dune tonight, which will mean I've watched every movie he's made. I'll miss the way he saw the world.

BREAKING: Tulip Siddiq is OUT as economic secretary to the Treasury and city minister

I spoke to human rights activist Laila Soueif yesterday about her most personal and difficult campaign yet – a hunger strike outside Downing Street, calling for the PM to ramp up pressure on the Egyptian government so they will free her son from prison. metro.co.uk/2025/01/14/i...

Labour MP Jess Asoto has called out Reform MPs for not turning up to today's debate on violence against women and girls Says Jess Phillips "has done more for abused women than anyone at X, or anyone in the party opposite that does not appear to be here today".

There's a lot of heat around yesterday's vote on the Children's Wellbeing Bill – I tried to explain why it's more complex than it may appear in my latest Alright Gov newsletter. Subscribe here: metro.co.uk/newsletters/...

Starmer very robust in his defence of Jess Phillips after days of attacks from Elon Musk and his followers

Who could Musk have in mind for the next Reform leader? Surely not the man whose videos he's been retweeting the last few days, and who he wants to see released from prison...?

Do you know someone who's become a Scottish lord or lady after they were bought a title online? Ever wondered what's actually happening behind the scenes, or whether it means anything? I took a look and found out for you. metro.co.uk/2025/01/04/i...

Quite a way to welcome 2025 in East Lothian.

I chatted with Ed Miliband about Wes Streeting's recent awards do joke at his expense, and whether he thinks he could gather the Milifandom once again to help him with his climate plans. www.google.com/amp/s/metro....

Feels mad to say the Knebworth sequence of the Robbie Williams chimpanzee biopic deserves to be a proper British pop culture moment, but there you go

A nationwide sigh of relief that new Wallace and Gromit was absolutely worth it

That'll be Labour MP Zarah Sultana posting a pic of Starmer's new US ambassador Peter Mandelson with Jeffrey Epstein

To round things off, the two Lib Dem appointments: Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the party's group on Sheffield Council, and Mark Pack, the president of the party since 2020.

Labour's appointments to the House of Lords include Sue Gray, as expected, as well as Thangam Debbonaire and ex-Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones

Thérèse Coffey – who was deputy prime minister under Liz Truss – has been handed a life peerage, less than six months after she was made a dame

NEW: Writer Toby Young has been made a life peer

Our festive Fifa clash with Ed Davey was about as bizarre as we were anticipating. Thanks for tuning in if you did. If you didn't, the headline is that Metro came out on top, winning two games to one – no thanks to me. I did score a penalty though. More here: metro.co.uk/2024/12/19/l...

One Christmas you're working the Metro early shift and opening presents between filing stories. The next, you're risking public humiliation by taking on the leader of the Liberal Democrats at Fifa. It's a mad old job. Join us live on Tiktok at 5pm. metro.co.uk/2024/12/19/l...

Who here hasn't signed up to my politics newsletter yet? It's free and has been proven to enrich the lives of everyone who gets it. It's only going to get better in 2025 too. Couldn't be simpler to get involved at this link: metro.co.uk/newsletters/...

Impressive spot sent over from the Metro pictures team – the Number 10 Christmas tree features a (maybe ill-advised?) farmer Santa on a tractor bauble Appears to be this one: www.adandishop.co.uk/products/far...

Metro's story as Yang Tengbo is revealed as the true identity of H6, the alleged Chinese spy who penetrated the top of British society: metro.co.uk/2024/12/16/i...

NEW: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says he'll do a skydive if his effort at Christmas no 1, Love is Enough, hits 10,000 downloads Ed Sheeran doesn't have to do this sort of thing

My chat with Ed Miliband yesterday wasn't all about sandwiches

Ed Miliband speaks to me about Kemi Badenoch's anti-sarnie stance: "I think she's missing out on what a bacon sandwich can offer." metro.co.uk/2024/12/12/k...

NEW: The full membership of the committee that will be scrutinising Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying bill. Includes Danny Kruger of the Conservatives, who was one of the legislation's top opponents in the House of Commons

I spent yesterday totting up all the miles the PM has travelled internationally since being elected just over five months ago – turns out it's almost the equivalent of twice around the globe

An interesting insight into how the apparently successful Syrian rebel group has governed the areas it has controlled so far, from the New York Times interview with its leader al-Julani earlier this week

Justin Welby just gave a pretty weird final speech as Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lords, referencing the gory beheading of his predecessor in 1371 while addressing his resignation. "It was then the revolting peasants played football with it" metro.co.uk/2024/12/05/j...

Another revelation in the booklet: Labour now has three foundations to go with their five missions, six first steps and six additional milestones announced today

NEW: Looks like the government's latest Plan for Change does actually mention the target of delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7, after much chatter to the contrary...

You'll be glad to read that I took the time to watch Jacob Rees-Mogg's reality show. It was... hmmm. I've written my thoughts down here metro.co.uk/2024/12/03/j...