Following the murder of Ann Widdecombe, Reform UK has criticized Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and suggested that its MPs have not been given adequate security. Pippa Crerar tells Kiran Stacey what Hoyle’s team were telling her Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran politicsweeklook@theguardian.com Please follow and subscribe to Politics Weekly
Nigel Farage claimed he was the victim of an ‘establishment hit job’ after it was revealed he accepted money from his friend, convicted criminal George Cottrell. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner is currently investigating whether Farage broke earlier rules in relation to an undisclosed gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Faraz has always maintained that the
Leading literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize after widespread allegations of the use of AI were made against one of this year’s winners. The magazine said it would no longer engage in “external publishing partnerships” over which it has no editorial control. In a