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Aletha Adu<\/span><\/p>\n The shake-up in Downing Street is not yet over.<\/p>\n A No10 source told the Guardian there will be \u201csubstantial\u201d changes to the government\u2019s junior ranks, with hopes to push most of them through before the end of today.<\/p>\n Jonathan Reynolds<\/strong>, Keir Starmer\u2019s new chief whip, and Darren Jones<\/strong>, newly appointed chief secretary to the prime minister, were seen entering Downing Street, as the process is set to kick off.<\/p>\n Many Labour insiders, some reluctantly, accepted the cabinet reshuffle as Starmer aligning his government to the right, a position Morgan McSweeney<\/strong> is believed to see where most voters are. However, some argue it has left Labour further from its own membership. With a deputy leadership contest looming, critics warn the government could be chasing voters and drifting out of step with its base.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s changes will decide who rises with Starmer\u2019s \u201cphase two\u201d, who has been frozen out and could highlight how tightly Starmer will grip the PLP.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.20 EDT<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Ben Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/strong> has told a gathering at the Reform UK conference that his teenage daughter, Mary, has joined Reform UK<\/strong> and that he is \u201chaving my arm twisted\u201d by her to follow suit.<\/p>\n The former MP told Reform UK members at a fringe event who put him under pressure to defect to their party that he was going to remain a Tory because he believed it was fundamental \u201cto bring the family of the right together.\u201d<\/p>\n There were loud cheers when Rees-Mogg said: \u201cI am having my arm twisted by my infant daughter who is standing over there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am sorry to tell you \u2026 I am embarrassed to say I have clearly failed as a father. Mary has joined Reform but I am not going to. I am going to remain a Tory because I think it is fundamental that we bring the family of the right together. The right wing family has to unite in a first past the post system. It\u2019s how you get a majority.\u201d<\/p>\n There has been speculation that Rees-Mogg could be one of the latest Conservatives to defect to Reform since he lost the battle for the newly created seat of North East Somerset & Hanham to Labour\u2019s Dan Norris in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n He told the event on Saturday said that he had to \u201cto be careful\u201d because he was still a Tory, but warned of a future scenario in which Reform won a general election but did not deliver on his pledges to achieve change.<\/p>\n \u201cIf a Nigel-led government does not succeed in change in six months … the nation is so angry that we will then be in real real trouble. There will be no where else to go.\u201d<\/p>\n Rees-Mogg recommended that if Farage wins the next election, the Reform UK leader should ask the king to appoint 500 peers so that Reform has a working majority in the House of Lords, where he said that many Tory lords such as John Gummer had \u201cdrifted leftwards.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n PA provides some more on Lucy Connolly<\/strong>, who is expected to appear at the Reform Party conference later today:<\/p>\n Connolly will appear on stage at the Reform Party conference on Saturday before Nigel Farage<\/strong> closes the event in Birmingham.<\/p>\n The former childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers in the aftermath of the Southport murders last year.<\/p>\n She will speak on the main stage of the conference in a special live recording of The Telegraph\u2019s Planet Normal podcast with Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, the newspaper confirmed.<\/p>\n It comes as party leader Farage said he would stop the boats within two weeks of passing immigration legislation, having previously said he would stop them within two weeks of \u201cwinning the government\u201d.<\/p>\n The party\u2019s deputy leader Richard Tice<\/strong> is also due to give an address later before Farage speaks to close the two-day event at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.<\/p>\n The main stage will also see a speech titled \u201cMake Britain Healthy Again\u201d by Dr Assem Malhotra<\/strong>, a cardiologist who campaigned against the use of the Covid mRNA vaccines.<\/p>\n Malhotra said the Covid vaccines should be paused in their rollout because of the \u201cuncertainty\u201d around excess deaths.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.44 EDT<\/p>\n Arrests have begun at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action.<\/p>\n More than 1,000 people pledged to risk arrest on Saturday at a fresh London protest against the ban, about double the number who took part in a demonstration last month where 532 people were arrested.<\/p>\n Read the Guardian\u2019s report on today\u2019s demostration at the link below:<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n <\/span>A person holds a sign on the day of the rally challenging the British government\u2019s proscription of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.<\/span> Photograph: Carlos Jasso\/Reuters<\/p>\n Police vans have been lined up near parliament ahead of protests in support of Palestine Action on Saturday.<\/p>\n <\/span>Police vans are seen lined up in a side-street close to Parliament Square, central London.<\/span> Photograph: Justin Tallis\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n A protester in Parliament Square has been spotted wearing a \u201cPlasticine Action\u201d T-shirt \u2013 a satirical play on the banned group which drew headlines last month when another demonstrator was mistakenly arrested for it.<\/p>\n Franco Ferrer, 69, from Llanberis in north Wales, said police had been photographing him since he arrived. He told PA:<\/p>\n Maybe they can\u2019t read.<\/p>\n The T-shirt is an effective way of getting the message across without risking arrest \u2026 I won\u2019t write a sign because I don\u2019t think I have the courage to do that. I\u2019ve come to support the action because the government banning a protest group by using terror laws is outrageous. It\u2019s silencing free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>A pro-Palestinian demonstrator at the rally in Parliament Square.<\/span> Photograph: Carlos Jasso\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.14 EDT<\/p>\n Ben Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n Lee Anderson<\/strong> will be crafting Reform UK\u2019s welfare policies<\/strong> ahead of its bid to win power at the next election, Nigel Farage<\/strong> has announced.<\/p>\n The Reform UK leader cited Anderson\u2019s past work at a Citizens Advice Bureau and said that he was becoming the party\u2019s spokesperson on welfare.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, he knows there are those that genuinely deserve help, but there are many frankly that don\u2019t. And the current system is that, you know, you go to your GP, your own GP is almost pressurised to put you on the disability register. All of that has to change,\u201d Farage said in an interview with ITV News.<\/p>\n As a Conservative MP, before he left the party after being accused of making Islamophobic comments about Sadiq Khan, Anderson was condemned by opposition after arguing that food banks are largely unnecessary because the main cause of food poverty is a lack of cooking and budgetary skills.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.16 EDT<\/p>\n Ben Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n The cousin of an Israeli hostage in Gaza who was shown looking emaciated and weak in a video released by Hamas has met Nigel Farage at Reform UK\u2019s conference to ask for help to raise his case.<\/p>\n Tamar Eshet, cousin of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, told the Guardian: \u201cWe wanted to speak to the people here because we know that their power is getting stronger at the moment, and that they can make a difference and have an impact on the British government.\u201d<\/p>\n Eshet, a student, has been at the conference in the company of diplomats from the Israeli embassy and met Farage briefly on Saturday in private, as well as talking to other delegates. They showed a video of David which was released by Hamas.<\/p>\n The footage, released last week, shows Evyatar David speaking in what appeared to be a Hamas tunnel in Gaza. In scenes that caused outrage and dismay in Israel, he is shown digging what he says could be his own grave. In comments made under duress, he urges the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to agree to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n Eshet said Farage and others in Reform were \u201cunderstanding\u201d that Hamas were being \u201crewarded\u201d by the British government moving towards recognising a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s deputy ambassador to the UK, Daniela Grudsky, on Saturday praised Reform UK for the support the party has given Israel. She was speaking at a fringe event \u2018Hostages of Hamas: Setting their voices free.\u2019<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.08 EDT<\/p>\n Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Parliament Square for a Palestine Action demonstration on Saturday, PA reports.<\/p>\n Some are handing out pens ahead of plans to write on boards at 12.50pm.<\/p>\n Many are sitting around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, with Palestine flags visible across the square.<\/p>\n Organisers say they expect about 1,000 people to attend.<\/p>\n The Met Police has warned it would be ready to arrest people today showing support for the group which was banned by the UK government under terrorism laws earlier this year. Last month, police arrested over 530 people at a previous Palestine Action protest.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Nigel Farage is signing the backs of turquoise football shirts released by Reform UK with his name on the back at the Reform UK conference.<\/p>\n \u201cGet back, get back \u2026 The barrier is here for a reason,\u201d photographers were told by Reform UK media handlers amid a rush when the Reform UK leader arrived.<\/p>\n Reform UK claim that about 10,000 of the shirts, which have become an upiquitous presence at the conference, have been sold since their launch.<\/p>\n <\/span>Reform UK annual Conference – Day 2 Reform leader Nigel Farage<\/strong> said the resignation of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner over her tax affairs \u201cscreams to entitlement\u201d during his speech to the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham.<\/p>\n Farage said last year that he had bought a home in his Clacton constituency, but it was later reported that his partner had actually made the purchase.<\/p>\n Mr Tice, the party deputy, was asked on Saturday whether Mr Farage would be transparent about his tax affairs and address questions over his partner buying the Clacton home. He called Farage\u2019s tax affairs \u201cirrelevant\u201d to voters.<\/p>\n Mr Farage has denied the arrangement had saved tax, telling The Mirror it was a \u201cdisgusting allegation\u201d that is \u201cunfair and untrue\u201d.<\/p>\n Separately, the Guardian revealed on Friday that Farage diverted money from his prime-time TV show into a private company, which means that he paid only 25% corporation tax on profits, instead of 40% income tax, and could offset some expenses.<\/p>\n The use of personal service companies is not illegal but has been criticised in recent years.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Mr Farage told the Guardian: \u201cThorn in the Side Ltd has traded for 15 years and has a variety of interests. It renders the services of several contractors and is a properly functioning company.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more on that report here:<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.29 EDT<\/p>\n Ben Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n Albania\u2019s ambassador to the UK has met with Nigel Farage<\/strong> to tell him that the Reform UK leader was repeating false information by making the claim that one in 50 Albanians in Britain were in jail.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s completely false, and yet it is being repeated on GB news and by politicians,\u201d said Uran Ferizi<\/strong>, the ambassador, who is attending Reform UK\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is misconstruing officials statistics which are taken and used to come up with difference claims that bear no resemblance to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n Albania\u2019s prime minister, Edi Rama, has already crossed swords with Farage online over the Reform UK leader\u2019s uses of the figure. Data from the Albanian embassy in the UK has disputed reports that the number of Albanians is UK 53,000, which was used as a source for the one in 50 claim.<\/p>\n Ferizi said: \u201cI told him it was deeply unfair to peddle these lies essentially. They are just not true. My perception was that he was receptive when he heard this and understood this.<\/p>\n \u201cI also made the case Albanians were a very good example of people who integrate well into Britain. They work hard, learn the language and the customs and the rules of the country. I told him it was deeply unfair for a country that prides itself on being fair, and he seemed to appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.35 EDT<\/p>\n The British couple killed in the Lisbon funicular crash have been remembered as \u201chugely talented\u201d members of the theatre community dedicated to \u201cinspiring the next generation, PA reports.<\/p>\n Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson, a lecturer at Manchester\u2019s Arden School of Theatre, were named as two of the three Britons who died after the popular tourist attraction derailed in the centre of the Portuguese city on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n The third British victim has yet to be named.<\/p>\n Macclesfield MP Tim Roca paid tribute to Smith and Nelson, saying: \u201cI was deeply saddened to learn that two much-loved members of our Macclesfield community, Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson, were among those who lost their lives in Wednesday\u2019s tragic funicular crash in Lisbon.<\/p>\n \u201cKayleigh was a hugely talented theatre director at MADS Theatre, where she poured her creativity, energy and kindness into every production. The moving tribute from the MADS team says it all, she was a dear friend to so many and will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Lucy Connolly<\/strong> will appear at the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham, PA reports.<\/p>\n The former childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers in the aftermath of the Southport murders last year. She was released last month.<\/p>\n She will speak on the main stage of the conference in a special live recording of The Telegraph\u2019s Planet Normal podcast with Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, the newspaper confirmed.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.46 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reshuffle to continue with junior ministerial changes Aletha Adu The shake-up in Downing Street is not yet over. 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Hundreds of protestors risk arrests in support of Palestine Action<\/h2>\n
epa12356802 Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage attends a shirt signing session on day two of the Reform UK annual conference in Birmingham, Britain, 06 September 2025. The Reform UK Conference 2025 takes place at the NEC Birmingham from 05 September to 06 September 2025. EPA\/NEIL HALL<\/span> Photograph: Neil Hall\/EPAShare<\/p>\nAlbanian ambassador says Farage claims ‘completely false’<\/h2>\n