Nigel Farage

Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant speaking during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Bryant thanks people who kept Northern Ireland functioning during the Troubles

The public have not yet forgiven the Tories, but leader Kemi Badenoch has earned real respect

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Badenoch is intelligent, tough, and has passion for truth

King Charles III

Restore’s Rupert Lowe declines to say whether King Charles is a white Briton

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone.

Reform UK accuse nationalists of 'manufacturing outrage' over Gaelic ban

To see this brilliant campaigner Nigel Farage - who used to play the press so cleverly - whingeing self-pityingly about annoying queries about the source and purpose of his new riches is to see a giant crumble

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Farage has come to believe that everything is about him

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Editorial: Resignation move involves some peril for Farage

Nigel Farage resigns and vows to fight by-election

The News Letter article on the Saturday before Brexit in which Ben Lowry argued against leaving the EU because of the risk to the UK. Saturday June 18 2016

Ben Lowry: Brexit has merits but has been very bad for NI’s place in UK

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham speaking at the Alliance Party's 2026 conference in Belfast's Crowne Plaza Hotel. Photo: Neil Harrison/PA Wire

Starmer fighting for political life as rival Burnham begins MP comeback move

Sammy Wilson has rebuffed Sir Reg Empey's assessment that Reform could come to Northern Ireland

'There is a 99.9% chance that Reform will avoid Northern Ireland' says DUP MP

Many people believe that Nigel Farage and many within Reform represent a form of English nationalism which does not necessarily place the preservation of the Union at its heart

Letter: Still sceptical of Reform’s stance on the Union

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks to supporters at Chelmsford City Racecourse, Essex, following the 2026 local election results. But does it mean that he will turn his sights to NI?

'Expect to see Reform standing in NI after election surge': ex-UUP leader

Morning View

Editorial: Election a deserved rebuke to Labour but show tensions that strain UK

Reform UK MP Danny Kruger (left) and TUV leader Jim Allister at the TUV conference at the Royal Hotel Cookstown. Picture date: Saturday March 21, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Claudia Savage/PA Wire

TUV conference: Reform MP pledges 'one border one crown'

Former TUV candidate Lorna Smyth is now NI director for Ben Habib's Advance UK party.

Former TUV candidate quits party and joins Ben Habib's Advance UK

DUP Leader Gavin Robinson with Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick on the Shankill Road in West Belfast.

Robert Jenrick says Reform ‘not picking sides’ in Unionist politics
Reform is "not picking sides in the Unionist cause", the party's shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick has said.
By Claudia Savage, Press Association

Danny Kruger speaking during a Reform UK press conference in Westminster, London. Pic: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Reform MP Danny Kruger to address TUV's annual conference

Ulster Unionist leader Jon Burrows lashed out at the DUP's actions over the last 15 years during a podcast interview with the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies.

DUP 'strategic errors have undermined the Union', says UUP's Jon Burrows

Green Party's Hannah Spencer celebrates winning the Gorton and Denton by-election at Manchester Central early on Friday. There was a shift to both the firm right and firm left in the results. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: By-election result has only shown how scarily divided the UK now is

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party is riding high in the polls ahead of May's council elections in England and Wales

Letter: Threat to the Union is not Farage

Nigel Farage says Reform wants to bring blast furnaces back to Wales. (Jacob King/PA)

Letter: Love affair with Reform UK should be challenged

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Editorial: Reform plan to protect veterans hits right tone, but details unclear

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at a Reform UK rally at Newark Showground in Coddington, Nottinghamshire. He has said convicted Troubles veterans would be pardoned under a Reform government

Farage to pardon convicted Troubles veterans under Reform government

President Trump aboard Air Force One from Davos o Washington. Many unionists in Northern Ireland, like others on the right of British politics, have a sneaking regard for the president (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Owen Polley: The right should be wary of Trump but not at cost of beliefs

Nigel Farage has stepped up his attack on the BBC, accusing the Question Time programme of being "utterly discredited" after featuring small boat migrants in its audience.

Farage attacks BBC as show features boat migrants in audience

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Editorial: Legacy scandal so obvious now that SAS has written to Benn

Tánaiste Simon Harris says comparing Nigel Farage to him is a ‘dog whistle’.

Simon Harris says Nigel Farage comparison a ‘dog whistle’
Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris has said it is a "dog whistle" to compare him to Nigel Farage .
By Cillian Sherlock PA

Danny Kruger, now a Reform MP, last week set out Reform’s plans for government, including a proposal for radical public sector reform

Owen Polley: Unionists need better ideas and arguments, not slurs

Morning View

Editorial: Tory spokesman falters in radio interview on poll

DUP leader Gavin Robinson.

DUP leader backs mass deportations of illegal immigrants

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is currently raising all sorts of genuine issues affecting the general public and putting the other parties under pressure

Letter: All the hype around Reform is just that - hype

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch gives her keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Wednesday. The overall conference was quieter but not dead. Pic: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: A quieter Tory event, for a party that's moved right – even on NI

Mike Nesbitt says Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has introduced a new dynamic to UK politics. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Mike Nesbitt says 'biggest danger' to the UK comes from English nationalism

Morning View

Editorial: Tories at last talk about much needed fiscal discipline in the UK

Political and religious commentator Dr John Coulter.

Christian Churches need to get ready for a Prime Minister Farage!

Morning View

Editorial: The Conservatives now need to end the cross-party consensus on NI

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Editorial: Hilary Benn is wrong - NI can and should quit the ECHR

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 30, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Hilary Benn brands Nigel Farage's ECHR proposals 'reckless'

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 30, 2025.

Hilary Benn: Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from ECHR are ‘reckless’

Sir Keir Starmer announced on Friday that the Government would introduce a new ID system by 2029

Petition against digital ID cards tops 1.5 million signatures

Unionists, alert to the treachery of British politicians, saw Nigel Farage as the great white hope, but their faith in him is in question

Letter: Farage knows there’s no life in a unionist corpse

Political commentator Dr John Coulter.

Kirk killing should be springboard for UK Coalition of the Right

DUP leader Gavin Robinson says dealing with the immigration crisis cannot wait until after the next election.

Solution to the UK's immigration crisis can't wait for a new government - DUP

Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice said that parliament has already made changes to the 1998 Belfast Agreement (Picture: John Devlin)

Reform UK: 1998 Agreement could be rewritten without nationalist consent

Attorney General Richard Hermer has rejected claims the UK could leave the ECHR without breaching the Belfast Agreement. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Attorney General says UK exit from ECHR would breach Belfast Agreement

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the government will look at domestic human rights laws. Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

MLA reiterates call for UK to seek ECHR reform after Government announcement

Steve Aiken has warned against the UK quitting the ECHR - saying the government should lead on reforming it.

UK should lead on ECHR reform rather than quitting - Aiken

Sammy Wilson says Nigel Farage should be prepared to “set aside a minor part” of the Belfast Agreement if he wins power.

DUP MP says Nigel Farage should 'set aside minor part' of Belfast Agreement

The 1998 Belfast Agreement saw terrorists/paramilitaries being given legitimacy, then lauded on the world stage, without acknowledging their wrongdoing

Belfast Agreement report shows the UK 'can and should quit ECHR as one'

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Policy Exchange report adds to ongoing NI debate over Belfast Agreement and ECHR

Lord Stewart of Dirleton has rejected claims the Belfast Agreement stands in the way of ECHR withdrawal.

Pro-EU campaign group sticks by Belfast Agreement claim

Jack Straw, a minister in the Labour cabinet which backed the Belfast Agreement, has endorsed a Policy Exchange analysis which says leaving the ECHR is not prohibited by the 1998 deal. File photo: Ian Nicholson/PA Wire

Former Labour minister backs new analysis on Belfast Agreement and ECHR

Farage claimed that Reform could renegotiate aspects of the Belfast Agreement to quit the . This was a disconcertingly airy statement, given that judges used the Withdrawal Act (which enacted the NI protocol) to apply the ECHR here, without recourse to the agreement

Owen Polley: Once again it is unclear if Nigel Farage grasps unionist concerns

Nigel Farage said this week it would take "longer" for NI to leave the ECHR than GB - saying he would renegotiate the Belfast Agreement to remove it. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

DUP leader urges caution over Farage's ECHR withdrawal plan

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Editorial: Nationalist concern about sanctity of Belfast Agreement rings hollow

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