Steven Swinford

After Nigel Farage said he wanted to see "big strapping" police officers to put fear into the public, I asked Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin if she agreed, and how it affects female officers. She told @bbc5live she "never feels comfortable seeing two female officers together".

Nigel Farage says he wants 'big, strapping' police officers out on the beat 'I think we should fear police. You need that tiny bit of fear. If you're out looking for trouble and you see a couple of big, strapping police officers you'll think you know what this might not be such…

Nigel Farage says Britain is on the brink of 'civil disobedience on a vast scale in this country' because of illegal immigration He says he understands the 'simmering anger' of people who turned up at violent demonstrations outside an asylum hotel in Epping Six people were…

Exclusive: Wes Streeting the and NHS have a new tactic for dealing with the BMA - they are effectively trying to break it, destroying its ability to mount a protracted wave of industrial action Sir Jim Mackey, the head of NHS England, told hospital leaders yesterday that…

Breaking: Wes Streeting hits back at the BMA after it announces that it will go ahead with resident doctor strikes at 7am on Friday, accusing it of showing ‘complete disdain for patients and behaving ‘recklessly’ ‘The BMA would have lost nothing by taking up the offer to…

Breaking: The BMA says it is going to go ahead with strikes at 7am on Friday The BMA's resident doctors committee voted to go ahead with industrial action at a meeting today It says that after talks over the weekend 'we still do not have a credible offer on the table' 'We…

Rachel Reeves repeats the message she gave Cabinet - there is nothing progressive about spending £!00bn a year - most of it going to American hedge funds - on servicing government debt Britain, she says, is 'reliant on the goodwill of strangers' 'We are still very reliant on…

Sizewell C will cost £38billion, compared to claims it would cost just £20billion a few years ago It would be paid for through people’s energy bills The nuclear power station will provide enough energy to power six million homes The government will have a 44.9% stake in the…

The US has stationed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in nearly 20 years for potential deployment on a new squadron of British jets, analysts have said A C17 transport plane was tracked on Thursday during a ten-hour flight from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico,…

David Lammy says Israel is presiding over a 'grotesque spectacle' in Gaza and that its food aid system is 'inhumane, dangerous and deprives Gazans of human dignity' He says it is 'wreaking a terrible human cost' 'I utterly condemn the killing of civilians seeking to meet their…

Keir Starmer says the situation in Gaza is 'intolerable' but won't commit to formally recognising a Palestinian state, saying it should happen 'at a time most conducive to the prospects of peace' 'The situation on the ground is intolerable on so many levels 'We make that…

Nigel Farage says that Reform's plans for nightingale prisons, pop-up courts and more police officers will cost £17.4billion over the course of the next Parliament He says 'we can't afford not to do this' given the cost of crime. 'Our societies are spiralling downwards' He…

Nigel Farage says he wants a 'higher and physically tougher' standard of police officer He says that criminals should 'slightly fear the police' He says former members of the armed forces would make 'ideal' police officers

The government has launched a review of the state pension age, which is currently 66 But the review is simply a legal obligation - from what I'm hearing the government won't go anywhere near increasing it this side of the next election The view is that doing so would be…

.@SteveReedMP has been out today trumpeting a goal to cut sewage spills 50% by 2030 against 2024 levels But Ofwat said last year that water co spending would cut spills 45% by 2030 against 2021 levels Reed goal gets you 225,199 sewage spills in 2030 Ofwat gets you 204,893!

Nigel Farage is today making a big pitch on crime He will promise to make Reform UK 'the toughest party on law and order this country has ever seen' and pledge to cut crime by half There are 10 policies, including: * Building five 'nightingale' prisons within 18 months on MoD…

Exclusive Rachel Reeves is expected to reject pressure from left-wing Labour MPs to implement a wealth tax after cabinet ministers warned that it would not raise any money Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader, has suggested there should be a 2 per cent tax on assets worth…