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Police in England and Wales investigate alleged hate speech by first deciding whether reported conduct meets a criminal threshold (a hate crime) or is a non‑crime hate incident; forces record and inve...
The core allegation is that Nigel Farage’s Clacton campaign misclassified or failed to declare local election spending — potentially breaching the legal constituency spending limit of £20,660 — by tre...
Nigel Farage and Reform UK have repeatedly made large, specific claims about migrants — including that annual net migration is creating a housing crisis, that Germany is conducting mass deportation fl...
The UK’s routinely investigates political finance and publishes monthly updates on closed cases; it has both probed and sanctioned parties for reporting failures in recent years and separately reviewe...
Undercover reporting recorded multiple campaigners making explicit while campaigning in , including a canvasser who used a racial slur about and activists who denounced Pride and insulted Muslims; tho...
A police complaint led Essex officers to visit Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson over a year-old X (Twitter) post alleged to have incited racial hatred; the tweet was deleted and later describ...
Former Reform UK councillor and campaign aide Richard Everett has submitted documents to police alleging Reform UK failed to declare and/or falsified spending on Nigel Farage’s 2024 Clacton campaign —...