ANTIFASCIST campaigners in Scotland declared that Nigel Farage was “not welcome in Glasgow or anywhere else” as the Ukip leader attempted to hold a controversial public meeting yesterday.
Hope not Hate Scotland secretary Rab O’Donnell told the Morning Star the location of the Farage meeting had been “shrouded in secrecy” as the Ukip leader dodged hostile campaigners.
Earlier, in a radio interview, the Ukip leader made a bizarre call for the Queen to step into the independence referendum debate.
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP


