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Lord Tomlinson obituary

Last parliamentary private secretary to Harold Wilson, whose political career spanned six decades

The Guardian - UK

Irish PM Leo Varadkar Announces Shock Resignation

Leo Varadkar on Wednesday announced that he was stepping down as Ireland's prime minister and leader of the Fine Gael party in the governing coalition, citing "personal and political" reasons.

International Business Times

Decriminalising abortion wins cross-party support from MPs as vote looms

MPs are expected to get a free vote on an abortion laws amendment if it is called when the Criminal Justice Bill is debated after Easter

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The left is smeared as the angry mob again and again. In reality, it is the target of political violence

These threats don’t just seek to intimidate leftwing politicians, it makes them seem a risk to voters, too, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Government loses all seven Lords votes on Rwanda bill – as it happened

Lords back amendments saying bill must comply with international law, on classifying Rwanda as a safe country and independent monitoring

The Guardian - UK

A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid

There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan pledges to use 'lived experience' of women to make London safer

It comes after Tory candidate Susan Hall said that the mayor ‘just isn’t listening’ to women about their experiences of harassment and assault

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Jeremy Hunt hints at October election in spending review remarks

Chancellor says month is last possible time that would also allow for review of Whitehall budgets before next April

The Guardian - UK

Labour to make fighting global heating a priority for Bank of England

Shadow chancellor to use annual Mais lecture to set out plans to green the economy if party wins election

The Guardian - UK

BBC apologises for calling Reform UK ‘far right’

Reform party leader Richard Tice says he expects BBC to change its editorial guidelines

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Rachel Reeves pitches herself as Labour's Margaret Thatcher (annoying just about everyone)

Few suspected at the time that the 1979 election was also a 1979 moment. Sure, the gravediggers were on strike and James Callaghan spoke of a "sea-change in politics" about which there was little anyone could do. But the Conservative manifesto of that year was far from unadulterated Thatcherism. Not…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Who will be the next Tory leader? It's best to start with the F word...

“Stop messing around” was Kemi Badenoch’s forthright advice to desperate Tory backbenchers, flirting with a Hail Mary leader switch before the election. The ex-defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who speaks as if addressing a slightly dim Army platoon, put the same thought just more pessimistically, as he urged colleagues to set…

Evening Standard

London mayoral election: Lib Dems' Rob Blackie takes aim at Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall as he launches campaign

The candidate said Labour’s Sadiq Khan ‘blames everyone else’ for failures on crime, while Tory candidate Susan Hall is ‘beyond the pale’

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Ben Wallace tells Tory rebels it is ‘too late’ to replace Rishi Sunak before the election

The former Defence Secretary told the Tories to ‘get on with it’

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons

Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support

The Guardian - UK

Penny Mordaunt’s Tory leadership rivals blamed for coup plot rumours

Allies of Commons leader say other future candidates for top job are trying to make her look disloyal

The Guardian - UK

Labour has not got long to find its moral compass

Letters: Peter Riddle says voters fear they will get Tory-lite policies and calls for honesty, while Carl Gardner says the party should make the UK attractive to struggling people, not big business. Plus letters from Martyn Taylor and Michael Meadowcroft

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My late husband, Bernie Grant, received vicious abuse like Diane Abbott

Letter: Sharon Grant calls on the Labour party to address its deep-seated problems with race and the abuse that its black MPs have received for decades

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Loyalty was once the glue that held the Tories together. But now they’ve come unstuck

Claims of a leadership bid are ‘bonkers’, say Penny Mordaunt’s allies. But so too is staying silent while the PM stumbles towards an election, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Diane Abbott is Proof That as a Black Woman, You Are Held to Higher Standards and Criticised More Harshly

It's no surprise so many black women support Diane Abbott — they know how it feels to be vilified

Evening Standard

OPINION - Penny Mordaunt could shut down the Tory leadership rumours instantly — her silence is telling

Two prime ministers in the space of two years may be a disagreeable necessity. Three starts to look like Italy. But four? Four! The very possibility that the Tory party, even given its well-known ruthlessness, may present the nation with another unelected leader before the election is, in the words…

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OPINION - The Standard View: Keir Starmer joining Sadiq Khan highlights a tale of two mayoral election campaigns

The symbolism and shared purpose were unmistakable: the likely next prime minister of the UK standing shoulder to shoulder with the likely next mayor of London, for the launch of Labour’s mayoral election campaign. Despite polling leads, the party is bringing out the big guns and taking nothing for granted.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak hints the Tories would accept another £5 million from racism storm donor Frank Hester

The PM’s delay in branding the donor’s outburst as racist has added to disquiet among some Tory MPs over his leadership

The Guardian - UK

It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

Former defence secretary tells colleagues there is no alternative to Rishi Sunak and to ‘get on with’ preparing for an election

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Only ‘one or two’ Tory MPs plotting against Sunak, says Badenoch

Business secretary dismisses reports of plot and rejects calls for her party to return donations from Frank Hester

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