Huge turnout for Jacob Rees Mogg at the Reform party conference

Unfortunate comma placement for Reform's chairman in the conference agenda

Last weekend, two men in homemade English flag balaclavas were filmed running around Walsall in the West Midlands, painting red crosses on white surfaces.

On social media, they were called 'absolute idiots' by some - but others said they were 'saving the country'.

(Pics from SWNS)

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will present Michael Crawford, best known as Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, with a Kennedy Center Honor later this year.

Quite a few seats remaining in the arena where Nigel Farage is launching the Reform UK local election campaign

We're now running 50 minutes late at Reform UK's big local elections campaign launch – I'm told it's due to protesters outside

Wouldn't mind a job as the newly announced Canadian fentanyl czar – stop a kilogram every three weeks or so and you're dandy

There's a lot of heat around yesterday's vote on the Children's Wellbeing Bill – I tried to explain why it's more complex than it may appear in my latest Alright Gov newsletter.

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Who could Musk have in mind for the next Reform leader? Surely not the man whose videos he's been retweeting the last few days, and who he wants to see released from prison...?

Quite a way to welcome 2025 in East Lothian.

That'll be Labour MP Zarah Sultana posting a pic of Starmer's new US ambassador Peter Mandelson with Jeffrey Epstein

Impressive spot sent over from the Metro pictures team – the Number 10 Christmas tree features a (maybe ill-advised?) farmer Santa on a tractor bauble

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NEW: The full membership of the committee that will be scrutinising Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying bill. Includes Danny Kruger of the Conservatives, who was one of the legislation's top opponents in the House of Commons

An interesting insight into how the apparently successful Syrian rebel group has governed the areas it has controlled so far, from the New York Times interview with its leader al-Julani earlier this week

Another revelation in the booklet: Labour now has three foundations to go with their five missions, six first steps and six additional milestones announced today

NEW: Looks like the government's latest Plan for Change does actually mention the target of delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7, after much chatter to the contrary...

I've read that Trump values people who 'look the part' very highly when making his cabinet picks. Which explains Pete Hegseth – he looks like the US Defence Secretary in a Paul Verhoeven movie