Ben Quinn
@benquinn75
Guardian Political Correspondent UK current affairs (with a fair bit on the Far Right, populism, disinfo) Irish Londoner Story? ben.quinn@theguardian.com Something sensitive? Secure drop:
Reform document: “We do not believe for one moment that the French Navy or Gendarmerie would open fire on Royal Marines” putting those from small boats back on French beaches. “Likelihood of tactical confrontation is incredibly low..”
The international new right met up in London this week at ARC. Re-industrialisation? Just one of the themes they’re successfully getting right wing parties to adopt
Nigel Farage at the ARC conference in London "family breakdown is pretty much the same as community breakdown"
Lots of stands: ADF.. Focus on the Family from the US, UK’s Free speech union & Prosperity Institute (formerly Legatum) UK And Institut de Formation Politique (IFP), “a finishing school” for young Far Right leaders
As in previous years, this was a lavish production blending socialising and music with a slate of leading thinkers and politicians of the right .. the sort of thing Liz Truss might envy as she plans her own ‘GBPAC’
Parliament's standards watchdog confirms today Nigel Farage is under investigation over a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne
Erm.. email drops about the Lego Maersk fuel container vessel Your little darlings can play at waiting around in Straits of Hallway
This is how it's done Fredrich Merz? Micheál Martin stepping in not just to defend Keir Starmer, but take issue with Trump's narrative on Europe "Europe is still a very good place to live, just to let you know.. Sometimes Europe gets characterised wrongly.."
Micheál Martin's turn in the white-knuckle chair Seem to have gently chastised an Irish reporter for asking Trump about a planning objection to his golf course in Ireland over rare snails "What kind of question ..?"
Now bigger than Sinn Fein, but smaller than the SNP “.. in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”
Suella Braverman has joined Nigel Farage on stage at a reform event “I feel like I’ve come home ..”
There will be a Labour defection next week says Farage, as we continue to wait
Greenland's energy minister is to come to Westminster next week to make a direct appeal for support from British MPs in the face of Trump's threats to annex the territory
Nigel Farage unveils former Tory councillor Laila Cunningham as the Reform London mayoral candidate (Not a surprise)
!? How does that happen ‘We’ve accidentally joined a Stiff Little Fingers tribute outfit’