Nigel Farage’s warning that MPs have until May – the date of the English local elections – has prompted fears of more departures, write

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will attend the World Economic Forum summit in Davos next week for the first time, as he attempts to cement his position as one of Britain’s most influential politicians on the world stage as well as at home.

Britain's former Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick became the biggest-name defector to Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK on Thursday, saying the nation was broken and its two mainstream political parties rotten.

Robert Jenrick has denied his defection to Reform UK was about personal ambition, telling the BBC it was "uniting the right" of British politics. The former minister joined Nigel Farage's party on Thursday, hours after he was sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet for plotting to defect.

The populist Reform party is suing the UK government, challenging proposals that may delay local elections, according to a court order.

Britain’s Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party.

Reform UK’s mayoral candidate for London has been condemned after saying that women who wear the burqa in public should be subject to stop and search. Laila Cunningham, who will be Reform’s candidate in the capital’s election in 2028,

LONDON, Jan 15 () - Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party is benefiting from a raft of high-profile defections from the centre-right Conservative party, with Robert Jenrick the biggest name yet to announce he is switching.