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OPINION - The Standard View: Tory by-election troubles are more than the usual mid-term blues

By-elections are different to general elections. Voters understand they are electing a single Member of Parliament, not a government. They often take place in mid-term, at a time when prime ministers are at their least popular. Local issues regularly dominate. They ought, therefore, to come with a health warning.

Evening Standard

Breaking the class ceiling: are Starmer’s speaking lessons the answer?

Keir Starmer has promised to smash the “class ceiling” by boosting education for poorer children.

The Week

Chaos and confusion over potential UK probe into Scottish independence spending

CHAOS and confusion is surrounding claims that the UK Government is probing its Scottish counterpart’s expenditure on independence ...

The National (Scotland)

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Over 40% of voters believe Labour will reverse Brexit

New poll finds uncertainty over Keir Starmer’s ‘make Brexit work’ policy

The Independent UK

SNP 'collapse' to third in council by-election as Labour win seat

The Nationalists lost more than a quarter of their vote in the East Kilbride West ward on South Lanarkshire Council.

Daily Record

Tories applaud Labour on by-election win in hark back to Better Together

TORY MSPs have congratulated Labour on taking a council seat from the SNP in South Lanarkshire.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson's seven worst moments as PM - from sickening Partygate to 'woeful fraud'

Today marks one year since Boris Johnson resigned as PM, after almost 60 MPs quit government or party posts to express their lack of confidence in his leadership

Daily Mirror

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I’d axe 20mph speed limits on main roads if I became mayor, vows Tory hopeful Susan Hall

Action also pledged on LTNs, cycle lanes, stop and search and family homes

Evening Standard

Scottish Government independence spending being probed, email shows after denial

Advocate General Lord Stewart told Lord Foulkes he has tasked his officials ‘with examining the matter’.

The Independent UK

Scottish junior doctors call off strike after getting 12.4% pay rise offer – as it happened

Scottish government says deal amounts to £61.3m investment in junior doctors’ pay, the best offer for this group in UK

The Guardian - UK

Groping scandal, drugs, peerages (or not) and cost-of-living crisis - can Tories win by-elections?

Political parties are already campaigning heavily in four by-elections

Evening Standard

Rishi’s reckoning: Labour ahead in Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat and in Tory stronghold, says poll

EXCLUSIVE: Labour has eight-point lead in Boris Johnson’s ex-constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip as parties campaign on cost-of-living, NHS, crime and Ulez

Evening Standard

Tories 'could be reduced to less than 100 seats for first time in 345 year history'

A new Calculus poll suggests that any gains made by the PM after Liz Truss's disastrous spell in charge have been wiped out, with Labour recording a 21 point lead as Tories turn on Rishi Sunak

Daily Mirror

Sadiq Khan quizzed on Uxbridge by-election amid Ulez disagreement

The mayor was asked about the fact that Labour’s candidate in the Uxbridge by-election, Danny Beales, disagrees with his key policy to expand the Ulez on August 29

Evening Standard

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The National (Scotland)

'This is how we win independence': SNP hopes high ahead of key experts' report

“THIS is how we’re going to win independence.” Ian Blackford, the SNP's former Westminster leader, has high hopes for an upcoming report ...

Daily Record

Scots who re-mortgage next year will pay extra £190 a month, Labour claims

The party estimates that 546,600 households in Scotland will re-mortgage by 2026.

Daily Record

Humza Yousaf open letter on first 100 days as First Minister insists 'progress made despite challenges facing SNP'

In an open letter to Record readers, First Minister Humza Yousaf reflects on his first 100 days in office and insists progress has been made on important issues.

The Independent UK

Key events in tumultuous 100 days since Yousaf became Scotland’s First Minister

He was sworn in to the top job in Scottish politics on March 29.

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The Independent UK

Tory MP Caroline Nokes reveals she’s suffered ‘50 creepy incidents’ with male colleagues

Women and equalities committee chair urges prime minister to act against ‘horrific’ culture in parliament

Daily Mirror

Johnson's gone but Tories are still sinking into their cess pit of depravity

Nothing can do undo the rot in the Conservative Party, it's ingrained, says Paul Routledge

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Chris Pincher case: the Johnson era is not dead

Editorial: The Commons standards committee is right that the former government minister must be suspended for sexual harassment

The National (Scotland)

UK officials NOT probing independence spend despite Labour peer's claims

SPENDING on independence by the Scottish Government is not being probed by UK officials, despite a claim to the contrary made in the House of…

The National (Scotland)

Spoiler: it wasn't Anas Sarwar who finally stood up to Sir Keir

AS Labour has turned more and more blue, discontent from within the party has surfaced in bits and parts.

Nottingham Post

Councillor shoved rival into stack of supermarket cereal boxes 'using his belly'

The incident took place in a Morrisons store

Wales Online

Councillor pushed rival into stack of supermarket cereal boxes 'using his belly'

The incident took place in a Morrisons store

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