Tory defectors: who has already joined Reform UK and who may follow?
Robert Jenrick is the latest former Conservative to join Nigel Farage’s ranks – but he may not be the last
December 2025
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows
Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
July 2025
The Sunday read
Suella, Jacob, even Liz? Inside Reform’s unofficial plan to bag a Tory big beast
Officially, the party says there is no mission to court Conservative defectors, but insiders suggest otherwise, and warn against the dangers of doing so
May 2025
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
English local elections: Farage says ‘it’s the beginning of the end of the Conservative party’ after sweeping Reform wins – as it happened
Starmer acknowledges ‘disappointing’ results as Badenoch says it was ‘always going to be a very difficult set of elections’
March 2025
Ofcom rushes to close loophole that lets politicians act as newsreaders
Still uncertain about Trump? Let Boris Johnson guide you on this ‘very compassionate man’
Catherine Bennett
January 2025
UK government to crack down on MPs earning extra cash from media firms
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage are among those who have earned large sums from broadcasters, but a tightening of rules on MPs’ outside interests is being considered
December 2024
Brief letters
How we got hooked on Horrible Histories
Meet the Rees-Moggs: a bluffer’s guide to the family’s weirdness
The politics sketch
Another reset? Has Labour lost its marbles like the Tories?
John Crace
TV review
Meet the Rees-Moggs review – my obsession with Jacob’s wife runs deep
Brief letters
Tender minds and media influence
Given the sharenting, let’s hope the little Rees-Moggs inherit papa’s exhibitionism
Catherine Bennett
November 2024
The watcher
Meet the Rees-Moggs: this is impeccable reality TV – but should the ex-MP be allowed on our screens?
Weekend
Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast
Brief letters
The final straw in Jacob Rees-Mogg interview
The big interview
Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV: ‘I’ve been called worse than a Nazi’
October 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened
Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves says Labour is closing ‘Tory freebies loophole’ over declaring hospitality
September 2024
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attacks on working from home were ‘bizarre’, says Labour
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says government is pressing ahead with plans for new flexible working laws
