Reform UK losing support to Labour after ‘difficult year’, says Danny Kruger
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Left out here: Drops what it reported before
Kruger is quoted calling the media focus a "second-order issue about local candidates who said very stupid things". The article never says that, days earlier, the Guardian had reported that the vetting turmoil followed Reform's leader on Hampshire county council being charged with 12 counts of rape. Without it, a reader may take Kruger's account of the vetting problems as complete.
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The Guardian reports Danny Kruger's Sky News admission that Reform UK has lost support to Labour, with each claim attributed and polling figures sourced. It misdates its own scoop on Farage's £5m gift. It also lets Kruger dismiss the party's vetting troubles as candidates who "said very stupid things" without recalling the more serious case its own earlier report tied to those troubles.
Makes a false claim
Minor
“since the Guardian revealed in May”
Why this matters
The words "revealed in May" date the Guardian's disclosure of Farage's £5m gift from Christopher Harborne to May.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the gift first became public in May 2026.
The context
Our editorial records that the gift came out in the Guardian on 29 April 2026. The standards inquiry opened on 13 May. The error is small and does not change what a reader understands about the gift.
Kruger is quoted calling the media focus a "second-order issue about local candidates who said very stupid things". The article never says that, days earlier, the Guardian had reported that the vetting turmoil followed Reform's leader on Hampshire county council being charged with 12 counts of rape. Without it, a reader may take Kruger's account of the vetting problems as complete.