Labour MPs and unions are pressuring the government to legislate for a stricter cap on political party donations
In Cardiff John Swinney, the SNP Scottish first minister, Rhun ap Iorwerth, the Plaid Cymru Welsh first minister, and Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Féin Northern Ireland first minister, are now holding a joint press conference in Cardiff where they are demanding their parliaments and assemblies have the right to hold referendums on leaving the UK. Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin president, and leader of the opposition in Ireland, is there too.
Swinney says, following the elections in May, for the first time administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all led by leaders who want to see their countries leave the UK.
The political landscape across these islands is changing.
For the first time ever, people across these islands have first ministers in Scotland, in Wales and in the North of Ireland who are all committed to independence from the United Kingdom.
Our nations have the right to self-determination. No Westminster government has the right to block democracy or undermine the principle that our people will decide their own future.
We recognise that our parties have different constitutional positions and that each nation will determine its own future in its own way and in its own time.
In the aftermath of Reform UK’s annual conference, which was partly overshadowed by further allegations surrounding donations to the party, almost seven in ten Britons (69%) say they have an unfavourable opinion of Nigel Farage. While this is within the margin of error of last month’s figure (67%), it is the highest figure recorded by our tracker for Farage in the 10 years it has run.
This includes nearly six in ten Britons (57%) seeing Farage very unfavourably, relative to no more than 50% having a negative view – to any degree – of the other four major party leaders.
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