Farage steps down as MP 'I am the most attacked public figure of modern times' Parliamentary investigations are being weaponised as political tool, claims Farage Leader of Reform UK faces sleaze inquiries Farage allegedly failed to report donations from cryptocurrency billionaire and convicted fraudster Farage: I have done nothing wrong ‘I have not broken the law in any way at all,’ says Reform UK leader LiveFarage resigns to fight by-election 07 July 2026 2:44pm BST key moments Farage steps down as MP Reform UK leader’s resignation will trigger by-election in Clacton. Follow the latest below 'I am the most attacked public figure of modern times' Parliamentary investigations are being weaponised as political tool, claims Farage Leader of Reform UK faces sleaze inquiries Farage allegedly failed to report donations from cryptocurrency billionaire and convicted fraudster Farage: I have done nothing wrong ‘I have not broken the law in any way at all,’ says Reform UK leade...
Daily Telegraph 6 July 2026 Good afternoon. Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader and a close ally of Andy Burnham, has said social media sites should face censorship during elections to ensure the public makes “informed choices based on accurate information”. Combined with votes at 16, a foreign donor ban, the abolition of hereditary peers, the possibility that Sir Keir Starmer will stack the Lords on exiting Downing Street and a growing appetite for regulating freedom of speech, a pattern is emerging. Labour increasingly looks like a party that cannot win under the existing rules, so it is rewriting them instead.