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Labour MP Welcomes New Law To Criminalise “Sophisticated” 3D Guns
Preet Kaur Gill MP
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A Labour MP who is leading calls to outlaw 3D guns has welcomed the news that the Home Office will introduce legislation to close what she described as a “really bizarre” and dangerous loophole.
Preet Kaur Gill, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, said she was “delighted” by the announcement.
“I look forward to working with the Government to get this right once legislation comes before Parliament, so we can crack down on these lethal blueprints and give law enforcement the powers they need,” she told PolitcsHome.
In an interview with PoliticsHome before the Home Office announcement, Gill expressed concern that the little-known threat of 3D-printed firearms could become a “trend” in the UK.
She had introduced a bill to Parliament that sought to make it an offence both to possess a blueprint for the production of a firearm by 3D printing and to possess a part of a firearm produced by 3D printing and for connected purposes.
As things stand, downloading and possessing the blueprints — which walk the reader through the making and assembly of a firearm part by part — is not illegal, a loophole that Gill described as “really bizarre”.
A Home Office spokesperson on Thursday confirmed that the department would introduce legislation “to criminalise owning with the intention to be used for crime, supplying and offering to supply templates or manuals for 3D-printed firearms components”.
The spokesperson added: “A 3D-printed firearm is subject to the law in the same way as any other firearm. The maximum penalty for possessing a prohibited weapon is ten years imprisonment, with a minimum penalty of five years.”
Gill is concerned that not enough people are aware of the threat posed by 3D guns, including her fellow MPs.
“Lots of colleagues didn’t even understand that there was an issue. They weren’t aware of this,” she said in her interview with PoliticsHome.
The Labour MP said she expected to encounter something resembling a Nerf gun sold in toy shops when she first saw a 3D-printed firearm. However, what she saw instead was something much more “sophisticated”.
“It’s really important to recognize that while these are 3D-printed guns, they have become so much more sophisticated because of the technology. Yes, they’re plastic, but they absolutely look like a real gun, and the technology has advanced so much that we just haven’t kept up with it,” she said.
Gill said the use of these weapons is not just for “imitation”.
“They can kill, they can seriously harm somebody.”
3D-printed guns — or ‘ghost guns’ — have made international headlines in recent weeks due to their alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of the United Healthcare CEO in New York.
The printing of illegal firearms is already taking place in the UK.
Just last month, a Newport teenager who bought several items capable of manufacturing an illegal but viable semi-automatic weapon was jailed for almost five years.
In 2023, two men were jailed for making FGC-9 sub-machine guns using a 3D printer.
Last year, the head of the National Crime Agency urged ministers to make possessing 3D-printed gun blueprints illegal, following a fourfold increase in seizures of the firearms.
“The problem with the 3D-printed firearms is that they are untraceable weapons, and that’s what makes it much more difficult to track the circulation,” said Graeme Biggar.
Gill said she was concerned that the shooting of Brian Thompson in the US could raise awareness of 3D-printed guns in the UK among “those who want to commit crime”.
“My concern as a politician is this is the type of thing that can become a trend, just because it’s so easy to access the blueprints. And of course, you can get a 3D printer for about £150 from Amazon,” she told PoliticsHome.
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Reform UK chairman explains party’s ‘historic breaking of the stranglehold’ after topping poll in shock development
Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has hailed a “historic breaking of the stranglehold” of Britain’s two main political parties after his party topped a national poll for the first time.
Speaking on GB News, Yusuf said the British public had grown “sick and tired after 14 years of Tory disaster, of incompetence, duplicity and corruption”.
He criticised the Conservative government’s record on immigration, healthcare and infrastructure, claiming they had “built no infrastructure, no hospitals” whilst energy bills “went through the roof because of their crazy net zero policies”.
The Reform chairman accused Labour of taking “all of the appalling things the Tories did and pour[ing] gasoline on it”.
Zia Yusuf has heralded Reform UK’s success
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A Find Out Now poll published on Friday showed Reform UK leading with 26 per cent of voter support, ahead of the Conservatives on 23 per cent and Labour trailing in third place on 22 per cent.
The Liberal Democrats polled at 12 per cent, with the Greens on 10 per cent.
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Nigel FaragePAThe survey of 2,380 UK adults was conducted on January 22.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage celebrated the results on social media, writing: “Reform LEADS for the first time in a national opinion poll. This is just the beginning.”
The milestone comes after two consecutive polls had previously put Reform UK in joint first place.
Find Out Now said Reform UK’s surge was driven by “retaining almost all of their 2024 GE support” – far more than any other party.
Zia Yusuf joined Matt Goodwin on GB News
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The pollster noted the party had won over a fifth of 2024 Conservative voters.
Most significantly, Reform UK captured nearly half (46 per cent) of people who didn’t vote in 2024 but now say they would “definitely vote”.
“Although new Reform UK voters are twice as likely to come from the Conservatives than from Labour, their single-largest source of new supporters is people who didn’t vote in 2024,” Find Out Now added.
A separate Ipsos UK poll found confidence in the UK’s direction had fallen to near pre-election levels, with 62 per cent saying the country was heading in the wrong direction.
The survey revealed widespread dissatisfaction with political leaders, with 52 oer cent viewing Prime Minister Starmer unfavourably and 50 per cent holding negative views of Labour.
Farage emerged as the leader with “the most distinct brand”, according to Ipsos director Gideon Skinner, particularly in “understanding the problems facing Britain”.
However, the Reform UK leader faces his own challenges, with 51 per cent viewing him unfavourably – almost double the 26 per cent who view him positively.
President Donald Trump, has just paused US foreign aid for 90 days.
Should the UK do the same?
Well, 64 per cent of Brits, nearly two-thirds of people, think we should reduce our foreign aid budget, according to a new poll by YouGov, prioritising very real public concerns.
Our government appears to prioritise international commitments over the domestic needs of our own people.
Matt Goodwin questioned if Britain is spending too much on foreign aid on GB News
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In 2023, the UK’s foreign aid budget reached a whopping £15.3 billion, with £4.3 billion of this sum allocated to domestic refugee programs. A significant increase of £583 million from 2022.
However, concerns have emerged about the allocation of funds to certain recipient countries and the potential misuse of aid.
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Consider just some of these numbers. Of this £15.3 billion, we sent over £115 million to Afghanistan. They’re a country run by the Taliban which means funds could be used to inadvertently support rebuilding efforts under Taliban control.
Somalia received £98 million, a country which has a history of UK aid falling into the hands of al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab while Somalians here in Britain are also among the most likely to be given social housing, also paid for by the taxpayer
Pakistan was sent £69 million, and is forecast to get £133 million this year, a country who had SOME nationals implicated as key figures in the rape gangs scandal
£58 million was sent to Bangladesh, a country who undermined UK’s efforts to strip citizenship from Shamima Begum, a British-born woman who entered Syria to join the Islamic State at the age of 15 in 2015 – who was eligible for Bangladeshi citizenship.
And lastly, Kenya was sent £48 million – a country where human rights campaigners continue to seek reparations for colonial era grievances.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group revealed in 2024, that £536.4 million is being spent on ten active funding programmes focused on supporting farmers and farming communities abroad while here in Britain we just smashed family farms that have been operating for generations to save some £500 million
In other words we are sending £15 BILLION overseas while taking winter fuel payments off of British pensioners to save £1.5 billion annually.
I think this is totally bonkers, and represents a betrayal of British people.
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‘Real pain ahead’ for Keir Starmer as Donald Trump enacts US masterplan that Ben Habib warns will ‘take Britain to the cleaners’
Donald Trump’s plan to prioritise America promises ‘pain’ for Great Britain, according to political commentator Ben Habib.
Speaking on GBN America, Habib said Keir Starmer should mimic the US president’s agenda to avoid being “taken to the cleaners” economically.
But the Prime Minister appears at odds with the new president ideologically and Habib has little faith in Starmer following his counterpart’s lead.
“We should have our own independent foreign policy”, Habib said on GBN America.
Trump’s plans could ‘send Britain to the cleaners’, Ben Habib warned
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“I think what Donald Trump is doing for America is putting the US first, and there will be pain in that for the United Kingdom.
“What we’ve got to recognise, and this is on his domestic policy, is that if we don’t mimic that, we’re going to be taken to the cleaners economically.
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Trump takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump holds the bible at his first inauguration in 2017Getty“As I say, young, bright individuals will all flock to the US because it will offer them a much better home.
“This isn’t about me saying, ‘I love Trump so the UK should follow what Trump wants’, I’m saying his agenda is the right one and it will cause us real pain unless we do the same agenda.
“It also happens to be an agenda which I have been campaigning for over the last 4-5 years.”
It comes after Trump issued a stark warning to global businesses, declaring they will face tariffs if they don’t manufacture their products in the United States.
Ben Habib spoke on GBN America
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Speaking via videoconference at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, the US president delivered a clear ultimatum to companies worldwide.
“My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth. But if you don’t, you will have to pay a tariff,” Trump said.
He announced plans to reduce the corporate tax rate from 21 per cent to 15 per cent for firms manufacturing in America.
The president specifically criticised the European Union’s regulatory system, citing his own failed real estate project in Ireland as evidence of bureaucratic obstacles to investment.
Trump also demanded NATO nations increase their defence spending to five per cent of GDP, far above the current two per cent threshold.
“I’m also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago,” he told the Davos audience.
Later at the Oval Office, Trump questioned whether the US should spend anything on NATO, stating: “We are protecting them. They’re not protecting us.”
He accused the EU of unfair trade practices, claiming: “The EU does not take our farm products, does not take our cars, yet they send cars to us by the millions.”
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Tories and Reform could be ‘forced to merge’ as staggering new poll puts Nigel Farage on course to become next PM
Reform UK has topped a national opinion poll for the first time, securing 26 per cent of voter support according to new data from Find Out Now.
The poll of 2,380 British adults puts Nigel Farage’s party three points ahead of Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives at 23 per cent.
Labour trails in third place with 22 per cent, marking a significant shift in the political landscape just six months into their government.
The Liberal Democrats secured 12 per cent, followed by the Greens at 10 per cent and the SNP at 3 per cent.
Christopher Hope offered his snap reaction to the shock polling
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GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope suggests the poll results could force a dramatic realignment in British politics.
According to Chopper’s analysis of seat projections, Reform UK would secure 190 MPs, with Labour on 161 and the Conservatives trailing at 141.
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The poll of 2,380 British adults puts Nigel Farage’s party three points ahead of Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives
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“It would basically force the Conservatives and Reform to merge,” Hope said, though he noted Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has previously dismissed such suggestions, questioning “why on Earth” she would merge with a party whose leader vowed to “destroy” the Conservatives.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage responded to the poll on social media, declaring: “Reform LEADS for the first time in a national opinion poll. This is just the beginning.”
The party’s chairman Zia Yusuf firmly rejected suggestions of cooperation with the Conservatives, stating: “No pacts, no deals. Reform is headed for Government.”
Reform MP Rupert Lowe expressed confidence in the party’s trajectory, saying: “Reform now in the clear, leading a national opinion poll. I am more confident than ever that we will outright win the next general election.”
Chopper analysed the poll on GB News
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A Conservative spokesman for Kemi Badenoch downplayed the results, telling GB News: “Polls go up and down and change every week. We’re focused on what matters – the damage Labour is doing to the economy, our schools and our international standing.”
Labour dismissed the poll, with a party source saying they were focused on delivering their Plan for Change.
“While the opposition fight among themselves, the Labour Government is putting in the hard yards to deliver much-needed growth,” the source added.
The poll results come as Ipsos UK found confidence in the country’s direction has fallen to near pre-election levels, with 62 per cent saying the UK is going in the wrong direction.
The survey revealed widespread dissatisfaction with political leaders, with 52 per cent viewing Starmer unfavourably and 50 per cent expressing similar views about Labour.
Reform leader Farage faces his own challenges, with 51 per cent viewing him unfavourably, while 46 per cent hold negative views of Conservative leader Badenoch.
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Nigel Farage rages at Britain’s ‘dismal’ ability to stop terrorists as ‘disgraceful’ Axel Rudakubana failings laid bare
Nigel Farage has launched a scathing attack on Britain’s counter-terrorism capabilities, claiming the country’s “ability to stop terrorists is dismal”.
Speaking on GB News, the former UKIP leader criticised what he called a “cover-up” in the case of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana.
He said the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision to tell Merseyside Police not to release basic information about Rudakubana was “a real disgrace”.
“The head of the CPS, his head should roll,” Nigel declared.
Nigel Farage hit out at the country’s failings in stopping Axel Rudakubana
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Rudakubana had been referred to the government’s anti-extremism Prevent programme three times while at school due to his fixation with violence.
Police records show he had attacked a pupil with a hockey stick, carried knives into school and searched online for information about the London Bridge terror attack.
Axel RudakubanaPALancashire Police were called to his home five times between 2019 and 2022 over concerning behaviour.
He was also under the care of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital’s mental health services from 2019 until February 2023, when he stopped engaging despite continued offers of support.
The 18-year-old was sentenced on Thursday to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 52 years for murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Rudakubana killed Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, in Southport last July.
Nigel Farage spoke to Martin Daubney on GB News
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He also pleaded guilty to attempting to murder eight other children and two adults.
The sentence is the second-longest tariff on record in English history, after the Manchester Arena bomber’s brother.
Justice Goose said it was “highly likely” Rudakubana would never be free again.
“For daring to ask questions about this case, I got absolute vilification and hatred from senior politicians and mainstream broadcasters,” Nigel said.
He claimed both Kemi Badenoch and the Labour Party knew Rudakubana’s identity early on.
“If the public had known the truth about this guy, crazy conspiracies would not have spread online and the riots would have been nowhere near as bad,” he added.
Nigel criticised Sir Keir Starmer for only talking about “the far-right” while ignoring “evil ideologies allowed to persist within our community”.
A YouGov survey published today revealed that while 91 per cent of respondents blame Rudakubana for his actions, 70 per cent also hold counter-terrorism services responsible.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a “thorough review” of the Prevent referrals in this case.
A public inquiry will examine any “missed opportunities” to identify Rudakubana’s murderous intent.
The investigation remains “live”, according to Detective Chief Inspector Jason Pye, who has not ruled out further arrests in the case.
Sadiq Khan has been accused of “running down the clock” when pressed on grooming gangs in a London Assembly meeting.
The London Mayor was asked if he would guarantee some funding for police investigations into the grooming gangs scandal.
Khan said: “Firstly it’s really important when you have a conversation of this nature that you think about the victims of child sexual exploitation.”
Pressed by Susan Hall, a former London mayoral candidate, Khan said that he was “really surprised” that Hall “did not know how operational independence works” for the police.
Sadiq Khan has been accused of ‘running down the clock’ when pressed on grooming gangs in a London Assembly meeting
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Noting that she was “on a clock”, she had asked the mayor for a “yes or no” answer.
Susan Hall AM, City Hall Conservatives Crime spokesperson, said: “Yet again Sadiq has failed to answer the important questions put to him about the issues that matter to London.”
She added: “Starmer tells us local inquires are the way forward but cowardly Sadiq can’t commit to funding one, and instead cynically tries to run down the clock on the time we have to ask him questions in order to avoid answering.
“It’s a disgrace, and an insult to the victims that despite every opportunity we get to push for justice, the Mayor continues to run and hide, for shame.”
The mayor’s office was contacted for comment.
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Keir Starmer left waiting by the phone as Donald Trump opts to call Saudi Crown Prince and China’s Xi Jinping instead
Sir Keir Starmer is still waiting to receive a phone call with Donald Trump following the 47th President’s inauguration on Monday.
Trump, who finally returned to the Oval Office after his thumping victory in November, has already reached out to a number of global leaders, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, El Salvador leader Nayib Bukele and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Prime Minister’s deputy official spokesman appeared to issue a plea for Trump to call Starmer ahead of an expected visit to Washington.
He said: “The Prime Minister would welcome the opportunity to speak to President Trump at the earliest opportunity and they had a productive meeting in September and subsequent positive phone calls in recent months and he looks forward to speaking to him soon.”
Keir StarmerPAWhen challenged on whether it was unusual that no phone call had taken place, the deputy official spokesman replied: “I wouldn’t accept that characterisation.
Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden spoke to then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson just three days after his 2021 inauguration.
Theresa May also jetted out to Washington within a week of Trump’s first stint in the White House in 2017, becoming the first world leader to meet the then-45th President.
However, Starmer last saw Trump for a three-hour dinner alongside Foreign Secretary David Lammy in September.
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Donald TrumpREUTERSDespite the pair calling on December 18, much has been made of the fractured relationship between Trump and Starmer’s Labour.
Lammy is among senior Cabinet figures to have significantly shifted his stance on Trump.
Having previously labelled the President a “neo-Nazi”, Lammy is now hoping to forge close ties with Trump and his Vice President JD Vance.
Trump’s allies have also suggested that the 47th President’s team could look to block Starmer’s US Ambassador pick Lord Peter Mandelson.
The rift comes after Labour staffers also attempted to help Kamala Harris campaign against Trump in key swing states.
Keir Starmer revealed the details yesterday PADespite their efforts, Trump won the election and filed a complaint to the Federal Electoral Commission.
Lord Glasman, who was the only Labour figure invited to Trump’s inauguration, detailed some of the challenges facing the Prime Minister.
He told PoliticsHome: “I’m obviously trying to communicate with them as best I can.
“I’m not expecting them to do cartwheels when the Prime Minister wasn’t invited, the Foreign Secretary wasn’t.
“It’s a difficult moment for them, and I’m just doing my best to represent Labour and the Government in the way that I can… They want an alliance with the UK, à la Churchill or Thatcher… They are looking for the government to be their partner, but they don’t see any indication that they are.”
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I was in Washington for the inauguration. What I saw shattered Khan’s veiled attack on Trump
On January 20th, London Mayor Sadiq Khan plastered his social media with a series of conciliatory if not vague messages.
“We’re living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by what’s taking place around the world,” wrote Sadiq.
Sadiq shared a photo of himself smiling benevolently beneath a Piccadilly Circus LED screen. A screen which beams the assuring “London is and will always be a place for everyone”.
Now cynics will say he has deliberately timed these with Donald Trump’s second inauguration as President of the United States. Kahn’s critics will say this is just more vacuous virtue signalling from Mr Kahn.
They’ll bemoan his pronouncements as typical progressive platitudes. They will seethe that our “DEI” Mayor is making allusions to geopolitics when violent crime, knife crime and rape and sexual offences have all risen under his mayorship.
But not I! Unlike those critics, I will give our great leader the benefit of the doubt. But what could he possibly be alluding to?
In Washington D.C. recently, still buzzing and high from Donald Trump’s victory rally at the Capitol One Arena on Sunday, I racked my brains.
Sadiq would’ve loved it. The Village People, chaps, tashes and leather. They tore the roof off. It was old-school diversity. Turbo-diversity. When DEI and S&M went cock in hand. Sadiq “Diversity is our greatest strength” Kahn would’ve been shaking his little booty with joy.
Donald Trump won the election in a landslide victory
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He can’t have been referring to Trump’s America.
What could it be? When I lay back in my hotel room, the sound of cacophonous patriotism bouncing up from the streets below, I tried to find answers on the tele.
Israel ceasefire and hostage deal agreed upon, including a British hostage. Soon-to-be-Sir Sadiq must have been overjoyed.
This is what Sadiq’s has been tweeting about for the last year and a half. A deal forced through by Trump, according to Benjamin Netanyahu anyway.
Sadiq is no doubt thrilled by the immediate impact by America’s returning Commander-in-chief.
He couldn’t have been referring to Trump’s America.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been awarded a knighthood in this year’s Honours ListPAAfter all, thanks to exposure by Elon Musk, Britain’s Pakistani rape gangs scandal – where our country’s most vulnerable children who have been abused, tortured and in some cases brutally murdered – has been given global attention at last.
Thanks to Trump’s team, the American media and X, we in Britain are being nudged towards justice for the girls. No doubt Sadiq will be thrilled.
He can’t have been referring to Trump’s inauguration. After all, a majority of American-Muslims voted for Trump in opposition to the Democrat’s disregard for traditional family values and chaotic foreign policy which has left the middle east, and Eastern Ukraine in rubbles.
When I watched the swearing in ceremony beneath the Capitol building Rotunda, I laughed to myself. Those silly critics probably think Khan was referring to this. Silly them.
Prayers from both a Rabbi and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit. A glorious display of America’s founding mantra “E Pluribus Unum” – of the many one.
A mantra that celebrates diversity but recognises unity as more important. I know Sadiq loves Diversity, but are you to tell me the idea of unity would offend him? Surely not.
Now I can’t tell you exactly what he was referring to. But I for one have no reason to believe those posts have anything to do with the return of Donald J. Trump to The White House.
A celebration of diversity, unity, democracy, and patriotism. A rejection of Biden’s disastrous foreign policy and, one hopes, a return to Trump’s first term of relative global peace.
I tell you what. I’ll come back to you.
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Nigel Farage says he’s ready to be next PM and vows to save ‘miserable’ Britain as Reform UK snatch lead in shock poll: ‘You bet your life!’
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he is ready to become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain after a new poll put his party ahead of Labour and the Conservatives.
Speaking on GB News, Nigel said the country is engulfed by a ‘miserable’ atmosphere, a stark contrast to what we are seeing across the pond.
This is a breaking story, more to follow.
Farage says the British public has lost faith in the ‘uniparty’
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The Lib Dems have urged the Government to provide them with more time to debate Parliamentary reform as momentum builds to change the UK’s voting system.
The Elections (Proportional Representation) Bill won a vote in the House of Commons during its first reading in December by 138 votes to 136. It narrowly passed with the support of 59 Labour MPs.
It was the first time MPs had endorsed replacing the current First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) for Proportional Representation (PR).
A minority of private members’ bills become law, because they are put forward by backbenchers and not the Government. They face competition from other MPs’ private members bills and may never receive a second reading.
Sarah Olney, Lib Dem MP for Richmond Park, said the Labour Government should “finally listen to the public” and give the Bill the time it needs to be scrutinised and debated in the chamber.
“Winning a vote in Parliament on proportional representation was a victory for democracy and for members of the public everywhere. They deserve their rightful say and for their vote to count,” she said.
“It’s long been clear that First Past the Post is not fit for purpose. The 2024 election was the most disproportionate in history, with a government winning two-thirds of the seats on one-third of the vote.
“The Labour Government needs to finally listen to the public, and give my Bill the time and support it needs to progress through Parliament and into law. Anything less would be an insult to everyone whose vote was effectively wasted at the last General Election.”
Keir Starmer is open to electoral reform having promised to give 16-year-olds the vote at the next election in his party’s manifesto in 2024.
The Prime Minister came under renewed pressure from his own party in November when Labour MPs joined a parliamentary group calling for the UK to move to a proportional voting system.
Many Labour MPs and activists are sympathetic to electoral reform, after a motion to commit the party to proportional representation passed at its 2022 conference.
However, the Prime Minister’s team have ruled out any action or commitment for the first term of a Labour government.
The UK held a referendum in 2011 on whether Westminster elections should use Alternative Voting (AV), where voters rank candidates in order of preference.
The ‘No’ to AV campaign won more than two-thirds of the vote with a turnout of 42 per cent.
Research from YouGov has found voters 48 per cent of respondents are in favour of adopting proportional representation, compared to 24 per cent who oppose it and 29 per cent who are unsure.
At the last election Labour won the second largest majority in political history after it secured 412 seats with 33.8 per cent of the vote.
If the voting system was based on PR, instead of FPTP, Labour would have only won 228 seats.
The Conservatives would have gained 139 seats while Reform would have won 100, the Lib Dems 73 and the Greens 71.
The Government was approached for comment.
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