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Brendan Hughes: Partygate, Boris Johnson mutiny and the Liz Truss lettuce - a look back at the political year of 2022

The upheaval of the past year has left many feeling as wilted as the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

Belfast Live

Liverpool councillor lobbied ex-Mayor to push through friend's planning application

Cllr Abdul Qadir's email to former council boss Joe Anderson was found to have broken the code of conduct

Liverpool Echo

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar insists security concerns will not stop him visiting Northern Ireland

Some some sections of unionism and loyalism claim he was an instrumental figure in the creation of the Protocol

Belfast Live

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Ex-Labour chief slams SNP MSP for tweet about Celtic during gender debate

A FORMER Scottish Labour leader has criticised an SNP MSP for tweeting about the Celtic game during a debate on controversial gender law reforms.

The National (Scotland)

Labour in plan to win celebrity support with 'endorsements manager' role

THE Labour Party are set to try and attract more "high-profile" celebrities to the movement, according to the specifications of a…

The National (Scotland)

Varadkar insists security concerns will not stop him visiting Northern Ireland

The Taoiseach intends to travel to the region in the early new year.

The Independent UK

Labour hiring ‘celebrity endorsements’ manager to woo stars for Keir Starmer

Full-time staffer will be tasked with getting celebrities to attend party events

The Independent UK

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Rural voters just as likely to back Labour as Tories no longer 'party of the countryside'

Researchers said the Conservatives 'are no longer the party of the countryside', with a poll revealing Labour is set to gain the same proportion of rural vote as the Tories

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak warned by Tory MPs over ‘political suicide’ of raising fuel duty by 12p

Conservative MPs say fuel hike would dent the party’s chances of regaining ground on Labour

Evening Standard

Dumfries and Galloway Council's joint leaders maintain united front and insists its business as usual

Labour leader Linda Dorward and SNP head Stephen Thompson didn't take kindly to questions from Conservative councillor Andrew Wood

Daily Record

Calling politicians 'clowns' is a disservice to clowns – yes, really

A recent Labour party campaign mocked short-lived prime minister Liz Truss and current chancellor Jeremy Hunt as clowns, complete with photoshopped red noses, colourful wigs and oversize bowties. This advertisement echoed years of similar criticisms of former prime minister Boris Johnson and former US president Donald Trump.

The Conversation

Alba could be set to secure Holyrood seats, poll suggests

ALBA could be on course for an upturn in their electoral fortunes and secure 20 seats in Holyrood, according to the party.

The National (Scotland)

Federal Calare MP Andrew Gee quits National Party over Indigenous Voice to Parliament opposition

The federal Member for Calare, Andrew Gee, is resigning from the National Party effective immediately over its opposition to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

ABC News

NSW Liberal factions dump Dominic Perrottet's gender parity ticket selections in last-minute move

A factional deal to have gender parity on the Liberal upper house ticket for the upcoming New South Wales election has been scrapped due to internal tensions.

ABC News

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Reuters

Fiji's king-maker party votes to support opposition coalition as military remains on call

Fiji's Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) said on Friday it had voted to form a coalition with two other parties to dislodge Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, signalling an end to the former military leader's 16 years in power.

Belfast Live

Poll: 81% say DUP should return to Stormont power-sharing

More than 1,500 votes were cast in the Belfast Live readers' poll

AAP

Liberal Party shy on quotas after review

A scathing review of the Liberal Party's federal election loss has called for a target of more women, but MPs are reluctant to call for quotas.

Newcastle Herald

No end in sight to Libs' Newcastle turf war

The bitter power struggle engulfing the party's Newcastle branches is an unwelcome distraction for a political organisation with a perceived female problem.

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Evening Standard

Even amid the strikes Labour are still the new party of business

The Tories have it all to do if they want to win back their lost status

Daily Mirror

Voters believe 'nothing in Britain works anymore' as they give Labour huge poll lead

A majority of the public (57%) said they believe that nothing in Britain works anymore - as they rewarded Labour leader Keir Starmer with a 24 percentage point lead over the Tories

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak changes rules so ministers can use their chauffeur-driven limos more

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been criticised for for helping his Cabinet ministers get rides home, while failing to end the train strikes that are causing misery for millions

Liverpool Echo

Concern for man, 20, who hasn't been seen in almost a month

Police said Jordan often visits places in Kirkby and Skelmersdale

Newcastle Herald

Inside track for former pollies to plum payments just isn't fair

They all got a very generous taxpayer-funded parliamentary superannuation pension payable immediately after they left Parliament

Chronicle Live

North East council gets back £15m loaned to troubled Essex authority that has £1.5bn debt

Newcastle City Council was among a number of authorities owed money by counterparts in crisis-hit Thurrock

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak appoints Historic England chair Sir Laurie Magnus to fill ethics adviser role

He will serve as the Prime Minister’s new independent adviser on ministers’ interests, Downing Street has said

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