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Rhun ap Iorwerth: Plaid Cymru is ready to ‘lead the charge’ in Wales

Leader launches ‘roadmap’ of first 100 days in power to show party is ready to govern if it wins Senedd elections

The Guardian - UK

Burnham would ‘probably’ have won by-election, says Labour deputy leader

Labour fell to third in the previously rock-solid seat of Gorton and Denton.

Evening Standard

Wales must shout louder, Plaid Cymru leader says

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth outlined his ambitions for the first 100 days of a Plaid Cymru administration in Wales.

Evening Standard

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Keir Starmer’s response to the Gorton and Denton debacle should be a government that truly, finally, reflects him

In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that don’t really match his core beliefs. That’s changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking, says the prime minister’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens

PM criticises ‘sectarian politics’ in byelection but party may fear Greens’ nascent leftwing political machine

The Guardian - UK

Home Secretary to warn Labour to resist leftward shift after by-election loss

The result of Thursday’s poll saw Labour come third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the seat.

Evening Standard

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

The Guardian - UK

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Gorton and Denton by-election bombshell: Five big takeaways

The by-election was a devastating blow for Sir Keir Starmer as Labour were pushed into a humiliating third place

Evening Standard

Starmer finds himself in a great Green mess – and he is now in the last chance saloon

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the PM is to rebound from this disastrous result and fend off Zack Polanski from Labour's left flank, he must drop every distraction and ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’

The Independent UK

‘Our own people hate us’: reality check for Labour as 13,000 majority vanishes

Party billed it as a two-horse race with Reform but Greens’ Hannah Spencer connected with voters in a way it could not

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs demand Starmer change course after humiliating byelection loss

Scale of defeat to Greens has plunged party into fresh despair and again raised prospect of leadership challenge

The Guardian - UK

SNP would be ‘complacent’ to think Holyrood election is ‘in the bag’ – Alexander

Scottish Labour campaign co-chairman Douglas Alexander accepted however his party are underdogs for the May election.

Evening Standard

Labour leadership truce holds for now but clock is ticking for Starmer

Countdown to May has begun and dejected Labour MPs want to see in that time PM is capable of change

The Guardian - UK

May election could be Labour’s ‘only chance’ to oust SNP – Anas Sarwar

The Scottish Labour leader was speaking as he addressed his party’s conference in Paisley.

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The Guardian - UK

Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages

Matt Goodwin claimed cheating in Gorton and Denton, Angeliki Stogia fled, Keir was tin-eared and Kemi brought the comedy

The Guardian - UK

Welsh elections a choice between culture and ignorance, Plaid leader says

Rhun ap Iorwerth tells party conference Labour and Tories ‘slipping away’ and Reform UK is main threat

The Guardian - UK

Reform and Tories report ‘family voting’ allegations to watchdog

Nigel Farage says his party was victim of ‘cheating’ in Gorton and Denton byelection, although Manchester council says no issues reported

The Guardian - UK

Gross green, chartreuse or phlegm? Hannah Spencer’s waistcoat is political and TikTok winner

Newly elected Gorton and Denton MP taps into colour meme of the moment with statement waistcoat

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Having romped into third place in Gorton and Denton, Labour is celebrating its success with a word salad

Got battered at the polls? No problem. Just act like voters want more of what you’re selling – not considerably less, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Evening Standard

The Green Party’s General Election manifesto at a glance

Here are some of the headline policy proposals from the Greens

The Guardian - UK

Five key takeaways from the Gorton and Denton byelection

The night saw a big win for the Greens, disappointment for Reform and landmark losses for Labour and the Tories

The Guardian - UK

‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech

‘We don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change,’ says Green party’s new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win

The Times of India

Who is Hannah Spencer? A plumber who rescues greyhounds wins historic UK bypolls

In British politics, victory speeches usually brim with triumph and party slogans. Hannah Spencer chose something else entirely: an apology.

Evening Standard

‘Apocalyptic’: What the Green Party's Gorton and Denton win means for Labour in London

The result challenges the narrative that Sir Keir Starmer’s party is the only viable left-wing option

The Guardian - UK

I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton

Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much more, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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