Single mothers with British citizenship are being pressured into registering 'asylum seekers' as their baby's father to help men commit immigration fraud. Known as the 'fake dad' scam, it is believed to be organised by the same criminal gangs behind countless 'sham marriages'. In one case, a couple with a newborn baby didn't speak the same language, lived hundreds of miles apart, and the ‘father’ didn’t even know the woman’s name. How many nonsense stories like this have enabled people to stay here? Whistleblowers have revealed mountains of fraud – non-existent gay relationships, bogus political dissidents, pretending to be children. The Tories and Labour created an asylum system that has become a scam on the British people. Reform will end it. We will take our country back.

STATEMENT: Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police. Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison. They forged a passport. They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to “canvass” for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes. They lied to a veteran about their service and left him “violated”. This is unprecedented. The police are now involved. Scrutiny of political parties is one thing. But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reform’s staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts. Here’s what happened 👇

This is incredible. An Algerian Hamas supporter who became an illegal overstayer in Britain, lied to immigration officers about it, and went to prison for it, is now in a senior role at the BBC. Because the Tories and Labour failed to deport him. Hicham Yezza has a long record of supporting Islamist violence. He was arrested in 2008 for possessing an al-Qaeda terrorist training manual. He came to Britain on a visa that expired in 2003. He stayed anyway. When immigration officers caught up with him, he told them his passport with the visa stamp had been stolen. They found it in his flat. A jury convicted him of deception. He was jailed for nine months. Then he won his appeal against deportation, and was later handed British citizenship. Now he’s the Principal Data Scientist in the BBC’s “Responsible AI” division, helping to decide how AI shapes what BBC News tells you. Before that he worked at BBC Monitoring, briefing BBC journalists on the Middle East. Can you guess what kind of briefings he gave them? He should never have been allowed to stay. Under Reform, people like him never will be. Under Operation Restoring Justice, we will detain and deport anyone who broke into our country. Our borders will mean something again.

STATEMENT: The man charged with murdering Ann Widdecombe with a hammer has now also been charged with preparing acts of terror against Nigel Farage MP. Today, a court heard he allegedly travelled to Nigel's home last year and tried to break in. A bottle of lighter fluid was found on the porch. This apparent firebomb attempt was investigated at the time. The police received CCTV footage of the incident. It has since been revealed that CCTV from Nigel's home captured both a suspect and their car "over an extended period". And yet, despite being in possession of that CCTV footage, the police claimed they could identify no suspects and closed the case. Read those last two sentences again. Counter-terror police have since referred themselves to the police watchdog, which is investigating a member of their staff. Why did it take the brutal murder of my dear friend Ann for the police to do their jobs? Anger does not begin to describe how we at Reform feel about this. The Police and the Home Secretary have serious questions to answer about how threats against Reform are handled. This is not going away.

France is on fire and serves as a warning to Britain. More than 600 arrested. 85 police and gendarmes wounded. 356 schools hit. Masked rioters have torched schools, doused teachers in petrol and forced staff to barricade themselves inside. In Nantes, the entrance hall of Nelson Mandela High School was burned out.  In Marseille, staff at Victor Hugo High were doused with petrol during an arson attempt.  Youths in balaclavas battered a fire engine until it caught fire. Then cheered.  A headteacher was hit by a mortar firework and taken to hospital.  Shocking footage shows a policewoman chased and attacked. Aerosol cans were piled up and detonated on one of Europe’s longest shopping streets in Bordeaux.  Buses, trams and metros have been shut in Marseille, Strasbourg and Grenoble.  The riots came after the left-wing mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, declared that “violence can be legitimate.”  Britain has a far left that is emboldened and regularly calls for violence against their political opponents. They (allegedly) murdered a beloved right-wing politician. They are actively intimidating right-wing parties campaigning in the Holborn by-election. With no consequences. They are routinely aided by the state. Remember the BLM riots? The mob that toppled Edward Colston’s statue? They were acquitted after arguing that the *statue itself* constituted a hate crime. The Tories allowed the far left to act violently with impunity. Labour is emboldening them further. Unless we have political leaders brave enough to stand up to these people and take action, scenes like the ones in France will come to Britain too. Britain needs Reform.

An important message about the end of democracy in Britain.