From New York, this is Democracy Now.

But I think overall what's happened is a truly historic shift in British politics.

We've been so used to thinking about politics in terms of left and right.

And yet what reform are able to do is to win in areas that have always been conservative.

But equally, we're proving in a big way we can win in areas that Labor have dominated, frankly,

since the end of World War I.

In what's being described as a political earthquake in Britain, the far-right Reform UK

party has surged in popularity in local elections.

As British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer faces calls to resign,

we'll talk with the British journalist Daniel Trilling,

author of the new book, If We Tolerate This,

How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable.

Then we go to Washington, D.C.

to speak with the Marine veteran and activists

who spent five days atop a bridge

in a protest that made international headlines.

I climbed the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge last week

to call the people of my country

into action, into nonviolent action to stop the war on Iran and remove the Trump regime from power.

And then to the prominent biotech entrepreneur Rami Elgandor.

He'd been selected by Rutgers University to address this year's graduating class of engineering students.

But then the school canceled his speech over his social media posts on Israel and Palestine. The cancellation of my speech sets a dangerous precedent by sending a message that having a moral conscience is a liability.

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