‘Nigel Farage built his movement on stoking division – racism row is rotten heart of Reform laid bare’

When your party’s internal rows centre on whether a post was racist, you do not have a values problem – you have a values crisis. Nigel Farage has built his movement on stoking division and resentment

Reform rot is laid bare

With days to go before voters head to the polls, Reform UK finds itself mired in a row that speaks volumes about its judgment and its morals.

Arron Banks, the man who bankrolled Brexit and remains one of Reform’s most prominent backers, thought it perfectly acceptable to respond to a clip of a Black activist campaigning in Wales for Plaid Cymru with the sneering words “Welsh lad?”

The message behind that post was not subtle. Nobody with an ounce of decency could pretend otherwise. What makes this worse is that Reform’s own candidate, James Evans, felt compelled to call it out as racist.

When your party’s internal rows centre on whether a post was racist, you do not have a values problem – you have a values crisis.

Nigel Farage has built his movement on stoking division and resentment. Banks’ post is not an accident or an outlier. It is the rotten heart of Reform laid bare.

If you needed one reason not to give Farage’s party your vote on Thursday, here it is.

Precious time

A one-minute cancer jab replacing hours on a drip is not just a medical advance, it is a crucial human one.

Drugs like pembrolizumab are already saving lives. Now they are giving something just as precious: time.

Time not spent in hospital chairs. Time with family. Time in the garden. For thousands facing devastating diagnoses, that matters.

The NHS deserves credit for moving fast to roll this out, and staff for embracing change that will treat more patients, sooner.

This shows what is possible when innovation meets determination and why investment in cutting-edge treatment must never falter.

Fergie wishes

Concern will ripple through football at the news Sir Alex Ferguson has been taken to hospital after feeling unwell.

A towering figure of the game, he has given the sport so much. We wish Sir Alex well.