About r/ukpolitics
Political news and debate concerning the United Kingdom. The rules of the subreddit can be found in detail here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/wiki/rules
The community at a glance
r/ukpolitics is a Subreddit for Politics with roughly 565K members. It has been around since 2008. It uses a forum format for communication. It is the 2nd largest community in the Politics topic page.
Roughly 42K members have joined in the past year. Popular discussion topics include Uk, Labour, and Struggling.
Community Topics
Community Features
This community has a forum
Subreddit Analysis
via GummySearchMember growth over time
All time (yearly)
- 2013: 6K members
- 2014: 7K members
- 2015: 14K members
- 2016: 26K members
- 2017: 51K members
- 2020: 231K members
- 2021: 41K members
- 2022: 71K members
- 2023: 13K members
- 2024: 33K members
- 2025: 25K members
- 2026: 31K members
Past year (monthly)
- Sep: 3K members
- Oct: 916 members
- Nov: 4K members
- Dec: 3K members
- Jan: 4K members
- Feb: 3K members
- Mar: 3K members
- Apr: 3K members
- May: 5K members
- Jun: 5K members
- Jul: 7K members
- Aug: 2K members
Topics
- Uk109 posts in the past month#1109Uk
- Labour46 posts in the past month#246Labour
- Struggling34 posts in the past month#334Struggling
- Reform26 posts in the past month#426Reform
- Politics18 posts in the past month#518Politics
Flair
- Twitter19 posts in the past month
- [Andy Burnham] Vape shops. Betting shops. Dodgy businesses. If you look at your high street these days and think ‘who asked for this?’, you’re not alone. I’m doing something about it. We’re giving local people and councils more control over what opens, and tougher powers to crack down on businesses
- Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck.
- The Spectator: “We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.”
#119Twitter[Andy Burnham] Vape shops. Betting shops. Dodgy businesses. If you look at your high street these days and think ‘who asked for this?’, you’re not alone. I’m doing something about it. We’re giving local people and councils more control over what opens, and tougher powers to crack down on businesses · Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. · The Spectator: “We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.” - Removed - Not UK Politics16 posts in the past month
- Islamist terrorist once sentenced to death for plot to kill Egyptian prime minister now runs a honey business in London
- Drunk diversity rep who crippled Afghan veteran police officer by dragging him along road with her Range Rover during traffic stop avoids prison
- Afghan migrants 'held woman down and raped her at knifepoint in London park'
#216Removed - Not UK PoliticsIslamist terrorist once sentenced to death for plot to kill Egyptian prime minister now runs a honey business in London · Drunk diversity rep who crippled Afghan veteran police officer by dragging him along road with her Range Rover during traffic stop avoids prison · Afghan migrants 'held woman down and raped her at knifepoint in London park' - Ed/OpEd7 posts in the past month
- Subscriptions you can’t easily cancel, sales that aren’t sales – I’ll end the rip-offs that British people hate | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
- The worst people in Britain are trying to wreck our pubs
- Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help
#37Ed/OpEdSubscriptions you can’t easily cancel, sales that aren’t sales – I’ll end the rip-offs that British people hate | Andy Burnham | The Guardian · The worst people in Britain are trying to wreck our pubs · Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help - |2 posts in the past month
- Exclusive: UK to announce raft of new policies on Israel including settlement goods ban
- Police investigate Widdecombe suspect over arson attack on Farage’s home
#42|Exclusive: UK to announce raft of new policies on Israel including settlement goods ban · Police investigate Widdecombe suspect over arson attack on Farage’s home - Financial Times video1 post in the past month
- How to fix the housing crisis | FT
#51Financial Times videoHow to fix the housing crisis | FT
Community Reviews
Frequently asked questions
- Who is r/ukpolitics for?
- Best for Politics enthusiasts looking for a Reddit-based community with forum discussion.
- Is r/ukpolitics free to join?
- This listing is not marked as paid-only. Access rules and any fees are decided by the community.
- How many members does r/ukpolitics have?
- Roughly 565K members, based on figures reported by the community or its host. Member counts are approximate and change over time.
- What platform is r/ukpolitics on?
- r/ukpolitics runs on Reddit. Reddit communities (or "subreddits") are forum-based groups on the popular social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit. Reddit is commonly known as "the front page of the internet". Users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down and discussed by other members. From investing Reddit communities, to professional ones, to ones just for laughs, you're likely to find a community for you on Reddit.
- What topics does r/ukpolitics cover?
- On the Hive Index, r/ukpolitics is organized under Politics.
- How do I join r/ukpolitics?
- You can join r/ukpolitics by clicking this link, or pressing the "Go to community" button above.
- What are the Politics communities like?
- Communities for political discussion covering elections, policy, and current events. Reddit has active communities spanning both general politics and specific ideological spaces, with Discord servers for cross-spectrum debate and Quora hosting large political discussion groups.
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