Tag: Nigel Farage

• Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 22:05 UTC

  Badenoch accuses Farage of trading Chagos for Trump’s silence on the Falklands

  

  British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called “humiliating” a proposal by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to offer US President Donald Trump the Chagos archipelago in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. “Giving away British territory in return for someone keeping quiet is not a deal. It is humiliating,” she told The Telegraph.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 21:53 UTC

  Farage proposes offering Trump Diego Garcia in exchange for his silence on the Falklands

  

  Reform UK leader c has said that, if he were prime minister, he would offer US President Donald Trump the use in perpetuity of the Diego Garcia military base, in the Chagos archipelago, in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. The proposal sparked a clash with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who called it “humiliating”, and prompted the White House to come to Farage’s defence.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 09:44 UTC

  Burnham's Labour edges ahead of Reform UK in a YouGov poll for the first time

  

  The Labour Party of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has moved ahead of Reform UK, the right-wing party led by Nigel Farage, in a voting intention survey by YouGov published on Tuesday by The Times. It is the first time this has happened in that pollster's series since Reform took the lead in early 2025.

• Monday, August 10th 2026 - 10:55 UTC

  Reform UK in talks with El Salvador over sending foreign prisoners to Bukele's jails

  

  Britain's Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, has opened contacts with the government of El Salvador to transfer foreign prisoners to jails in that country should it win the next United Kingdom general election, which must be held by 2029 at the latest. The report was published on Monday by the newspaper The Sun and has not been confirmed by San Salvador.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 08:40 UTC

  PM Starmer’s dreadful Monday: will a speech overcome the greatest challenge to his political future

  

  UK’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer this Monday will be facing the greatest threat to his premiership and political future, with a speech in which he is expected to promise bolder action to tackle “big challenges” facing the country, as he battles to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader.

• Thursday, January 29th 2026 - 09:46 UTC

  UK leader Farage pledges amnesty for convicted Troubles’ veterans under Reform government

  

  British military veterans convicted for their roles during the Troubles in Northern Ireland would be pardoned under a Reform UK government, Nigel Farage has said.

• Tuesday, December 30th 2025 - 20:32 UTC

  Milei tells Telegraph Malvinas' claim non-negotiable

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei sparked a fresh diplomatic controversy this week after telling London's The Telegraph that his country's sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands was non-negotiable.

• Monday, September 15th 2025 - 04:20 UTC

  Falklands at UK Parties conference; “next year will have to include Reform”

  

  A representative from the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, together with the team from the London Office, FIGO, will attend this year’s Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat UK Party conferences later this month.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Farage does it again: Reform UK trashes Labour and Tories, becomes main opposition

  

  Populist Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party surged into the lead in local elections across England and grabbed one of Labour’s safest parliamentary seats, trashing Conservatives and becoming head of Britain´s opposition, underline UK media.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Reform leader Farage questioning the Chagos Islands deal; allegedly Trump advisors are against it

  

  The UK's deal to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is “strongly supported” by the United States, according to the Government. In October, it was confirmed the islands would once again come under Mauritian control, although Diego Garcia would remain a military base for the US and UK, with Britain maintaining a 99-year lease over it.