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OPINION - The Standard View: Three weeks until mayoral election day and time is running out for Susan Hall

It is safe to say that last night’s mayoral hustings produced as much heat as light. This was most obviously the case when Andreas Michli, an independent candidate, forced proceedings to be halted for 20 minutes by repeatedly shouting out the names of teenage knife crime victims, preventing Sadiq Khan…

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Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that

People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

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It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Margaret Thatcher set Britain’s decline in motion – so why can’t politics exorcise her ghost?

MPs on all sides pay homage, while her failures are forgotten, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate

Party figures say decision to tack to right on issues such as immigration could also diminish predicted landslide

The Guardian - UK

‘Lesser of two evils’: voters in Sheffield Hallam look to Labour with reluctance

Conservative supporters are hard to find in this area of Sheffield, but Lib Dems say Labour are taking these voters for granted

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The Guardian view on Harold Wilson’s affair: a secret at the sunset

Editorial: After nearly half a century, aides reveal that a Labour prime minister said he had found happiness in a new relationship

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Reviving Sure Start would be a vote-winner for Labour

Letters: John Bercow says the early years programme was a crucial life enhancer for millions of children and could be a key election battleground. Plus letters from Prof Gary Craig, Deborah Hayter, Keith Reed and Ian Wrigglesworth

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Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

A Fixed-term Parliaments Act must be restored, so election dates suit the national interest – not the prime minister’s, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Sunak rejects calls to remove whip from Tory MP over Lee Anderson support

Nick Fletcher criticised for calling Tory defector and Reform party’s only MP ‘Ashfield’s greatest champion’

The Guardian - UK

Lee Anderson backer Nick Fletcher insists he's still a loyal Tory MP amid calls to oust him

Nick Fletcher insists he remains loyal to the party after appearing to endorse serial rebel Lee Anderson

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan retains 'commanding lead' over Susan Hall in latest mayoral election poll

With just three weeks until London’s City Hall election, the Labour mayor appears on course to win an historic third term

Evening Standard

OPINION - I was a Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, but this is why I now back Sadiq Khan

The London mayoral election on 2 May is now just three weeks away — and there’s so much at stake. That’s why, even though I was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor, I’m now urging people who might be considering voting Liberal Democrat to vote for Sadiq Khan. Let me…

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Dining across the divide: ‘Nick’s beef was more with private schools than home schools’

The royal family was a bone of contention, but not party politics, education, or mansplaining

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Harold Wilson confessed to secret ‘love match’ while PM, former aide reveals

Joe Haines tells the Times of relationship with Janet Hewlett-Davies before Labour leader resigned from No 10

Evening Standard

Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election, says ex Tory chancellor Philip Hammond

The Conservatives will likely “take a pasting” at the general election, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond conceded on Thursday.

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Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country

Any plans for ‘national renewal’ must focus on freeing the UK from its vice of wallowing in guilt or glory, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Lawmakers Skewer EU Chief Over Contested Job Pick

European lawmakers will cast votes Thursday on a contested appointment to a plum Brussels job, with Ursula von der Leyen suspected of playing favourites to aid her own re-election as commission chief.

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Former Lib Dem candidate urges voters to back Sadiq Khan - four years after criticizing 'two-horse race' argument

Siobhan Benita spent 18 months campaigning against Sadiq Khan in the last mayoral race - but now urges voters to back him

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

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Labour candidate in Scotland suspended over ‘racist’ social media activity

Constituent reported tweets liked and shared by Wilma Brown, who was to stand in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

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‘We have to get the basics right’: Labour’s Chris McEwan in Tees Valley

Party hopes to take mayoralty from Tories but incumbent Ben Houchen is still popular with voters, defying national mood

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Rishi Sunak appeals to Reform UK defectors to stick by the Conservatives over immigration and net zero

PM says he still plans to call election ‘in the second half of this year’

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When Rishi Sunak speaks, the nation shrugs. There’s no coming back from that

Flirting with leaving the European court of human rights has failed to move the dial for the PM, and has highlighted his deficiencies, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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