Police are now making enquiries after footage from Reform UK’s Birmingham conference showed audience members pulling a protester’s hair and grabbing her head as she was removed. The woman has since told LBC she was hit and grabbed by attendees, while party figures have offered sharply different responses. Truth Vs Hate examines the footage, the police appeal, Reform’s reaction and the democratic line that should never be crossed.

Reform UK has put social housing back at the centre of the immigration argument with proposals that would give greater priority to people born in Britain. But what would that mean for British citizens born abroad? The difficulty appears when the slogan is applied to real people. Birthplace and citizenship are not the same thing. A British citizen born overseas who arrived as a child, worked, paid tax, raised a family and spent decades in the UK could be.

Is Raise the Colours losing momentum? As crowds appear smaller, perhaps people are beginning to question whether grassroots movements can sustain themselves once the novelty fades. When donations, merchandise and memberships become part of the model, where does activism end and business begin? Raise the Colours appeared to arrive everywhere at once. Flags, street activity and viral social-media posts turned a local campaign into something presented as a.