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Local elections 2026: Nigel Farage leads Reform troops in Battle for Essex as Tories defend 'last stronghold'

Speaking to The Standard, the Reform leader said: ‘Battle between Reform and Conservatives in Essex is going to be a very big test of who is seen to be the major party on Centre Right of British politics’

Evening Standard

Tension and dissent: inside the Green party’s antisemitism struggle

With a fast-expanding membership and historic electoral gains in sight, the Israel–Palestine debate is testing party unity

The Guardian - UK

Scots responding to SNP’s positive message of hope, says Swinney

The Holyrood election campaign is entering its final weekend before voting day on Thursday.

Evening Standard

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Sarwar vows to give NHS waiting lists ‘the chop’ as he visits karate dojo

The Scottish Labour leader said the NHS ‘is not safe with John Swinney and the SNP’.

Evening Standard

‘No other plan comes close’: how Labour MPs turned to Burnham with Starmer on the brink

Greater Manchester mayor’s team have been quietly preparing a manifesto and identifying seats where MPs could step aside to allow a Westminster run

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor said to have identified seats where MPs would step aside to allow leadership bid

The Guardian - UK

Offord: ‘Racist’ used too loosely and is too accusatory

The Reform UK Scotland leader said Scots were raising legitimate concerns about fairness.

Evening Standard

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Former Tory councillor convicted of drugging and raping wife for years admits making indecent images of children

Philip Young earlier pleaded guilty to drugging and assaulting his wife over a period of 13 years

The Independent UK

Conservative Party apologises for Bloody Sunday social media video

The Northern Ireland Troubles Bill was designed to repeal and replace the controversial Legacy Act introduced by the previous Conservative government.

Evening Standard

Too good to be true: on the road with Nigel Farage – photo essay

Guardian photojournalist Sean Smith has been following the Reform UK leader as he criss-crosses the country on a busy schedule of walkabouts and meet-ups with prospective councillors and supporters before the May elections

The Guardian - UK

Election is opportunity to ‘chart new course’ for Scotland, Swinney says

The Scottish First Minister and SNP leader made a stump speech in Stirling ahead of the final weekend of the campaign.

Evening Standard

'We'll win Havering,' declares Nigel Farage as Reform targets three more London councils in local elections

Exclusive: Reform UK leader convinced party will win Havering - and could seize Bexley, Bromley, and Barking and Dagenham

Evening Standard

My advice to Hannah Spencer? Before calling out MPs’ boozing, try to understand the reasons behind it

The new MP is right that parliament’s drinking culture is fundamentally weird. But to change it, we need to reset the whole institution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

Exclusive: women ‘massively underrepresented’ in next week’s local and devolved elections, campaigners say

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Tony Blair’s thinktank urges Labour to scrap ‘unaffordable’ pension triple lock

State pension was ‘built for a different era’, says former PM’s organisation amid pressure on government finances

Evening Standard

Voting SNP could bring independence and lower energy bills, says Swinney

The SNP leader said Scotland’s energy was its ‘superpower’ as he urged voters to back him with less than a week to go before polling day.

Evening Standard

Scottish Greens urge SNP to match universal free childcare pledge

The Scottish Greens say the SNP’s manifesto promises on childcare are ‘lacking in detail’.

The Guardian - UK

Zack Polanski’s criticism of Golders Green attack arrest will have ‘chilling effect’, says Met chief

Mark Rowley defends officers who arrested suspect in Wednesday’s incident and calls on Green party leader to show solidarity

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The Guardian - UK

Where does Starmer’s leadership stand – and who are his potential challengers?

With PM on shaky ground as May elections approach, we take a look at who could take a run at the Labour leadership

The Guardian - UK

Starmer restores powers to ousted hereditary peers in Lords shake-up

Dozens handed life peerages in apparent concession, enabling their return to red benches

The Guardian - UK

Met police arrest two Green election candidates over alleged antisemitism

Lambeth council candidates Saiqa Ali and Sabine Mairey understood to have been detained over social media posts

Evening Standard

London Tory local election candidate suspended after saying 'Hitler was right'

Helena Kanaan, who was running for the Roehampton seat on Wandsworth council, made the comment in response to an online argument between Piers Morgan and self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate

The Guardian - UK

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Chaos within Labour has paused for now, but after the May elections the leadership contest begins in earnest

A different kind of stasis waits after the polls: a candidate gridlock where all Starmer’s potential successors are problematic in their own way, says writer Morgan Jones

Evening Standard

Two London Green Party local election candidates arrested over 'antisemitic posts'

The two women were detained under section 19 of the Public Order Act

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