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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2h
It's time to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe. ♥️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3h
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3h
Shocking.
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their confer
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
"Amazing that there is a psychological screening test to determine whether you are up to appearing on a reality TV show these days, but you could ascend to the office of prime minister without submitting to anything similar."
theguardian.com
To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde
The Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool h
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
Thank you so much for your support!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 "We will say more in due course but we can confirm... that we believe Iran to have played a part," he told the BBC
bbc.co.uk
UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, Burnham says
The prime minister's comments come days after the suspects were released on the 'strictest possible bail conditions'.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
🗳️ Rejoining is the only option. 🇪🇺 Britain needs to build bridges with our European allies and get back to the heart of Europe.
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham wants to review the UK’s relationship with the EU. What are the options?
The PM said Brexit has ‘done more harm than good’ and wants an assessment before the next UK-EU summit
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h
👏 Really welcome news.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h
With the public behind him, progressives imploring them, and the economic case etched in stone, we should signal to the EU – today – that the UK is ready to apply for membership, to take us back to where we belong at the heart of Europe.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h
"There’s only one option for our future relationship with Europe that will deliver both the economic growth promised for every postcode and the political dividend required to keep Labour in power."
observer.co.uk
Burnham’s Brexit pledge is ‘game on’ for Rejoin
Prime minster confirms shift in Labour’s stance on Brexit, opening door to going ‘all the way’ and reversing 2016 refere
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9h
📈 Only one policy option gets £92bn in growth. 💪 Only one policy option boosts our exports by £43bn every single year. 🇪🇺 Britain needs to rejoin the EU. And the EU needs Britain.
independent.co.uk
Burnham says he could go ‘all the way’ and rejoin European Union in Brexit warning
PM said one option was to back George Osborne’s call, made in an interview with The Independent, to rejoin the EU custom
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10h
Burnham: "My judgment is Brexit in its current form has caused more harm than good and I think around 60 per cent of the British public now hold that view." "It's not a good thing if the public are ahead of politicians on this issue."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
🚨Britain must rejoin the EU. 👏 It is the only option on the table that makes sense, and the most popular option amongst the public. 📈 If Burnham wants growth in every postcode - there is only one way to do it.
bbc.co.uk
Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Andy Burnham
The prime minister tells the BBC the current Brexit settlement has caused "more harm than good".
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, Burnham tells BBC
The PM was speaking after using his conference speech to say the government will end the existing triple lock on pensions from 2030 to help fund social care reforms in England.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13h
This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
👀 In his speech, Burnham promised to set out different options for closer UK-EU relations. Shortly afterwards, Downing Street did not rule out that these options included rejoining the EU. inews.co.uk/news/politics/burnham-o…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
There can only be one option on the table. Full EU membership. 💷 £92bn for our economy. 📈 £43bn extra exports each and every year. ⬆️ Growth in every postcode, region, and nation of the UK. 🇬🇧 628/632 constituencies in favour. 🗳️ Stops Farage getting to No10. It really is a no brainer.
theguardian.com
Burnham vows to seek new ‘long-term’ relationship with EU in emotional Labour conference speech
PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform i
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The PM will set out options for our EU relationship. We will be there, making the case strongly, with evidence, and clearly, for the option of membership. But we will need your help. There's never been a more crucial time to support our work bestforbritain.org/fundraising/...
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Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We said our work needed to be a deafening alarm bell to every slumbering Labour MP and snoozing No10 strategist. Burnham’s speech today proves he’s wide awake.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
Finally, a Prime Minister has admitted Brexit has done 'more harm than good'. Burnham has promised to lay out "the different options" for what a new UK-EU relationship would look like. EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. Help us ensure Andy takes that option. 👇
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Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 Naomi Smith, Best for Britain CEO: 👏 “With the public behind him, progressives imploring them, and the economic case etched in stone, we should signal to the EU – today – that the UK is ready to apply for membership, to take us back to where we belong at the heart of Europe.”
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Only one option on Europe: Burnham must seize moment now - Best for Britain
Andy Burnham should "signal to the EU today that the UK is ready to apply for membership", campaigners have stressed, af
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good. We need to restore a higher level of growth and prosperity for Britain." Britain needs EU membership - only then will we have the growth that our country needs.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "We will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, so that everyone's vote counts. And everyone's voice is heard."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 "Caring for other people's parents on poverty pay, but doing it with huge skill, humor, and humanity, holding a threadbare system somehow together, yet invisible to the political class of this country" "I want to speak directly today to our care workers. You are not invisible to me."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 NEW POLL 🚨 🇪🇺 Committing to EU membership could be the difference between a Labour-led and Reform-led government at the next election. A commitment to EU membership could bring the Labour Party to 321 seats, just five short of a majority in the House of Commons, the study found.
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FAQ: Why EU membership might win Labour the next election - Best for Britain
Committing to EU membership could be the difference between a Labour-led and Reform-led government at the next election.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
"I fear that lives will be lost. We need to be doing much more education and preparation." Climate change is here now. We must act and stop the degradation of our natural world.
bbc.co.uk
Lives will be lost unless UK does more to combat wildfires, committee chairwoman says
Baroness Brown says there must be better training and planning, after a record year for wildfires in England and Wales.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 Cary Mitchell, Director at Best for Britain: “Labour now finally backs democratic equality. A Labour government introduced PR for voting in the devolved nations and it’s right that they introduce it for Westminster elections too. Equal votes for the whole of the UK can’t come soon enough.”
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PR can’t come soon enough for UK - Best for Britain
Campaigners have welcomed reports that Andy Burnham is set to announce plans for electoral reform in his Labour Party co
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Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
NEW: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR unlike Farage and Badenoch, says @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social “They say they’ll bin the European Convention on Human Rights. They’ve clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement. Or maybe they don’t care about it”, Bryant stated www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/chri...
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Chris Bryant: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR, unlike Farage and Badenoch - Politics.co.uk
Sir Chris Bryant has vowed that Labour will “stand by” the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Good Friday Agreement, accusing Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch of having “clearly never re...
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ministers have reportedly said it is a question of "not if but how" a rejoin pledge is included in the next Labour manifesto.
thelondoneconomic.com
Burnham 'building the case' to put rejoining the EU in next manifesto
Andy Burnham is reportedly going to edge Labour closer to rejoining the EU and move towards a rejoin pledge in the party's next manifesto.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🤔 Even among voters who support Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, a majority — 51% — share the view that the current arrangement with Brussels is too distant.
politico.eu
Brits want to get closer to the EU — and even Farage’s voters agree
As Labour grandees discuss reversing Brexit, Public First results show 70% of voters would welcome tighter ties with the
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHOOOP!!!!! This is VERY welcome news - PM will announce a process to introduce PR for Westminster elections: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you want to sign up (free) for all the latest news about the U.K. EU relationship and our campaign to reclaim that star, just head to the bottom of any page on our website under “newsletter”. www.bestforbritain.org
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Home - Best for Britain
The problems Britain faces are real, the solutions being offered are false. Our job is to provide the evidence-led answers that fix Britain.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇬🇧🇪🇺We have been working EVEN harder than usual @bestforbritain.org in 2026. On econometric and electoral analysis, message crafting and testing, arming allies in Parliament with data, and major digital campaigns. And it’s paying off.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
A new YouGov poll commissioned by Best for Britain found that restoring EU membership is the most popular option for the UK’s relationship with Europe in 628 of GB’s 632 constituencies. The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
leftfootforward.org
Brexit’s last strongholds? Only Reform and Restore constituencies reject rejoining the EU
The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
More than 7,500 people have signed our petition calling on Ofcom to take immediate action. Add your name: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Naomi Smith: This is a signal that the political class is finally catching up with where voters have been for a long time. Read here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
If Graham Stringer thinks it’s a bad idea, it’s probably a good one 👀
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Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
NEW: Labour MPs tell Burnham to show ‘high ambition’ and move closer to EU @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social told a @britishfuture.bsky.social event the PM could open “a conversation now about the single market and the customs union, with a view to putting it to the country in a couple of years.”
politics.co.uk
Labour MPs tell Burnham to show ‘ambition’ and move closer to EU
Labour MPs Anneliese Dodds and Andrew Lewin have urged Andy Burnham to set out a bolder relationship with the EU. Speaking at a British Future fringe event at Labour conference, the pair were asked wh...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Nige 👀
mirror.co.uk
Blow for Nigel Farage as poll finds more than half of voters dislike him
EXCLUSIVE - The Persuasion UK survey found 43% of all respondents, and 72% of 2024 Labour voters, have a positive view o
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me for the Indy: www.independent.co.uk/voices/this-...
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This is the only way that Andy Burnham can beat Nigel Farage
Our polling shows that campaigning to go back into Europe is the only way to stop the electoral map turning turquoise, says Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Lasting relief requires lasting change. We cannot stand still and keep on avoiding the choices necessary for our country to thrive. That is why this Government must take the brakes off Britain, supercharge our economy with a transformational £92bn and reclaim our seat at the heart of Europe.
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Don’t let UK dawdle in growth slow lane, Healey urged - Best for Britain
Campaigners have urged the Chancellor not to let the UK "dawdle in the slow lane, on a path towards no growth and lower
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
A new and important study from Best for Britain finds that if Labour moved to a more ambitious policy position on Europe, it would not result in greater support for Reform or the Conservatives. A commitment to apply to rejoin the EU should be a central feature of the next Labour election manifesto.
observer.co.uk
Starmer’s manifesto is hobbling Labour. Keynes would say ...
The great economist advised against cutting public spending at a time of crisis, and Andy Burnham’s commitment to keep h
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Thanks for sharing!
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