Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face.
Bridget Phillipson
The Public Record
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October 7, 2026
You can find more whitewash in this report than at your local B&Q. Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face. They can’t run from the truth forever.
— Bridget Phillipson
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by number of sources- Next time you see me, I’ll be wearing a T-shirt saying ‘Spiteful Class Warrior’. Because if being a spiteful class warrior means lifting half a million children out of poverty, then I’ll be wearing that T-shirt with pride.2 sources2026theguardian.com
- The communities in this report are my communities. I know what they've given this country and what this country has failed to give back.2 sources2026bbc.co.uk
- Nigel Farage cannot dodge them for ever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.2 sources2026theguardian.com
Kemi Badenoch is the latest in a long line of failed Tory leaders who are determined to see workers made worse off.
It is shameful to vote against a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and to condemn the vast majority of British Jews and Jews around the world as racist for supporting Israel’s right to exist.
Kemi Badenoch's Tories held young people back and caused the welfare bill to spiral. To pretend she's suddenly on the side of young people is frankly insulting.
We live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days.
The way that the Tories and Reform have approached this issue is all too often about political point-scoring. They’re not serious about taking the action that’s needed to protect women.
I want all women to be able to lead the lives that they want to live without fear of intimidation or abuse.
Women's safety is a national emergency, but that has to mean all women, because you know we live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days, and the safety of women is of the utmost importance.
I think we are seeing a weaponisation of violence against women and girls by parts of the right that I don't believe will challenge the attitudes that we're seeing, or will lead to women feeling safer – and that is my focus.
It should be their hard work and their talent that takes them where they need to be.
A lot of what happened in that period was that there was a total failure to listen to women, to believe women – especially working class girls who were reporting unimaginable abuse but weren't taken seriously.
I think it just says more about Kemi Badenoch than anybody else that she chooses to really reduce the debate to the level of name-calling.
I remain a proud spiteful class warrior addressing the long standing inequalities.
The Reform UK council’s decision is being exposed for what it is – misguided, cruel and in no way backed by the people of Sunderland.
There has been a squeamishness in talking about class and it was a big area that's been missing in policy formation.
This decision marks a pivotal step in embedding a focus on socio-economic inequality into the heart of government.
It’s time to stop the deflections and desperate excuses. Farage and Reform must co-operate with the authorities to establish the truth and prove just how deep this scandal goes.
Nigel Farage needs to urgently prove today that his top team haven’t broken the law and secretly plotted to undermine our democracy.
But the reality of what we are confronting is that, if allowed to go unchecked, we could end up in a position where someone who was arrested for very serious offences, for example, offences related to violence against a woman, and we…
We didn’t create enough prison capacity in the years that they were in government so that we don’t have to be even considering these kinds of options, which – in an ideal world – we would not be having to consider.
We have faced some really difficult and unpalatable choices because of the huge crisis that was left behind in the prisons estate.
Nigel Farage has spent the summer battling a bin in a desperate attempt to dodge scrutiny but people have a right to know what he’s hiding.





