Politics

It's a windy March morning and I'm standing in the forecourt of a small service station that has been re-dressed in Reform teal.

Even when the Conservatives slumped to a historic defeat at the general election, few would have thought that one of the world's oldest political parties would soon be overtaken in the polls by a young pretender on the radical right.

Kemi Badenoch has told Sky News the row over reported missing messages from Morgan McSweeney's stolen phone is "extremely fishy" and calling it so is not a conspiracy.

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A month into the Iran war and the prime minister, on a visit to Finland with allies in the Joint Expeditionary Forces military coalition this week, left me in no doubt that he believes our lives, our country and the way we do things, is about to profoundly change.