My friends, I stand with you resolutely in being utterly overwhelmed with horror at the transformational treadmill our country is on. I agree with many of you that the country we hand on to our children and grandchildren will be vastly different to the one we once knew. I’ve got a cold in August (how?!) yet I can still see that with the clarity of Jude …

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Since our darling Ann Widdecombe was taken before her time, I have struggled with so many feelings. Like so many of you who have reached out to me since her killing, I will admit I have cried more than once as the details unfolded. Ann was a prominent member of our Reform movement. The Aunty Ann of Reform UK.

I do not claim to have known Ann especially w…

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I have been in elected office for just over a year, and most of that year has been swallowed by three letters. H, M and O. House in Multiple Occupation. I represent part of my home town, an ex-mining town called Stanley, which, much to my mother’s delight, GB News’ Patrick Christys name-checked the other night while swatting away some leftist who reckon…

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There is a particular kind of British gaslighting that now passes for statesmanship.

You are shown the footage. You hear the words. You see the dying boy. You read the official policy. You notice the double sta…

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The above video was filmed at Redhills — the Durham Miners’ Hall. That’s the backdrop. Keep it in mind.

Durham Pride takes place this weekend. You may have missed that detail amid all the shrieking.

For a year the local activist grift has carried on as though Reform Durham had padlocked the rainbow, confiscated every sequin in the county and frogmarched t…

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If you ever wondered what your licence fee actually buys, here’s your answer: a Sunday morning telly programme where the BBC parks five members of the political Left (including the Tory) around a table and points the lot of them at a single Reform UK politician, in the hope that sheer weight of numbers will do what their arguments can’t.

Welcome to BBC Politics. Five against one. And reader, they still couldn’t land a glove.

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Here we are, my friends — over a year since 65 of us were elected under the Reform banner in Durham and across the country. And you know what? The sky hasn’t fallen in. Services haven’t stopped. If anything, services are making savings despite del…

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The establishment genuinely expects you to be stupid. They think if they repeat a lie often enough on the evening news, you’ll stop believing your own lying eyes.

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If you want to see the utter bankruptcy of the Lefty consensus, look no further than our former pit villages.

For decades, the political establishment has pursued an open-borders dogma and disastrous housing policies, creating a crisis they have absolutely no intention of living alongside.

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This week, a Reform UK councillor who was so back-bench we assumed he had fallen off has been busy performing for the cameras—cutting up membership cards and penning resignation letters filled with the kind of high-flown rhetoric usually reserved for people who actually do their jobs.

But behind the theatrical “disdain” and the grievances of a man who lo…

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As regular readers will be aware, I am in contact with the family of the late mother Rhiannon Skye Whyte. I’m here to tell you once again that the system didn’t just fail her; it spat in her family’s face at every turn.

Rhiannon was a 27-year-old mother with a five-year-old son waiting for her at home. She spent her days cleaning and serving food at the …

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Imagine you’re a young lad from Crewe or Consett, looking at a career in the forces. You want to serve your country, learn a trade, and maybe stand for something bigger than yourself in a modern world in which everything is so instant and vapid. Then you turn on the news and see Sir Keir Starmer swanning around Paris, grinning like a schoolboy who’s just been patted on the head by Emmanuel Macron.

The “Paris Declaration.” It sounds grand, doesn’t it? Starmer has committed British troops to a “peace force” in Ukraine. “Military hubs” in Donetsk. “Reassurance forces” in Kyiv. He’s found an “iron-cast commitment” to defend a border 1,500 miles away with your life and your tax money. Yet, when it comes to the invasion at Dover, he’s about as firm as a wet paper towel.

Let me be clear, because the usual bad-faith brigade will try to twist this. This is not an argument against Ukraine, nor against our armed forces, nor against young men and women choosing to serve. Quite the opposite. Those who put on the uniform — like my late grandfather before them — are heroes in my eyes. They deserve honour, protection, and a country worthy of their sacrifice.

Nor is it unreasonable for Britain to support allies abroad. A serious country can walk and chew gum. But what Starmer is proposing isn’t solidarity — it’s sanctimony. He has found moral clarity, political will, and unlimited rhetoric for a border 1,500 miles away, while treating Britain’s own border as an embarrassing inconvenience best ignored.

That is the problem. Not Ukraine. Not the Army. Not the young lad from Consett or Crewe thinking about signing up. The problem is a political class that will happily wrap itself in borrowed heroism overseas while abandoning the very people who do the fighting — and the country they come home to.

If you’re thinking of signing up, you have to ask: Why? Why risk your life for a government that treats our own borders like a suggestion, but treats a frozen trench in Eastern Europe like the last stand of civilisation?

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When I scarped from GB News after the years I’d spent there, many assumed I’d embarked on some sort of career suicide mission. Dear reader, to a certain extent, perhaps they were right. I was making more money than I ever had before—not ITV sums, perhaps, but certainly “gobbing off on the box” sums—for the privilege of being booked to speak my mind each…

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Wheelchairs Over Windmills: The Truth About Durham’s Finances

The accusation that the Reform UK administration in Durham has engaged in “financial vandalism” is not just a falsehood; it is a grotesque inversion of reality. It is a smokescreen designed to hide the uncomfortable truth: that for years, the previous Liberal Dem…

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This afternoon I was contacted by Siobhan Whyte—the mother of Rhiannon Skye Whyte. Rhiannon was the 27-year-old British woman murdered by an illegal migrant who should never have been on our soil, let alone armed with a knife at Bescot Stadium railway station.

But you need to understand the bleak, cruel irony of why …

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