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Alliance leader Naomi Long hits back at Northern Ireland secretary over Stormont budget remarks

She said that "rather than lecture and ignore his own flaws", Chris Heaton-Harris should work with Stormont parties

Belfast Live

Local elections in England live: polling station in Southampton closes after death of candidate – as it happened

Graham Galton, a Conservative councillor running for Coxford ward, died on Thursday after voting had started

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak predicts ‘hard night’ for Tories as he faces local elections test

Conservatives are trailing heavily behind Labour going into Thursday’s polls

The Independent UK

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Polls open as Sunak faces local elections test

Polls have opened across England, with Rishi Sunak set to face his first major electoral test since entering No10 just over six months ago.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak predicts a hard night for Conservatives in today's elections

“Good councillors will lose their seats because of all that has happened over the past year.”

Wales Online

Partygate: Boris Johnson’s political future could be decided within weeks

Privileges committee pencils in 23-24 May to finalise inquiry into whether former PM misled MPs over lockdown parties

The Guardian - UK

Sunak predicts ‘hard night’ for Tories as he faces local elections test

The Prime Minister’s Conservatives are trailing heavily behind Labour going into Thursday’s polls.

The Independent UK

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Voices: Trump looks like he might be back to his old, 2016 self – and we should all be worried

The chances of Donald Trump returning to the White House might be small, but based on tonight’s performance, it’s not a ridiculous prospect

The Independent UK

Trump accuses Biden of disrespecting the King by not attending Coronation

The former US president speculated that his successor would be ‘sleeping’ instead of attending the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump 'doesn't know' whether 'friend' Boris Johnson able to make comeback

Bizarrely, the former US President suggested the Conservatives in Government were going "far left", as he warned they "really weren't staying Conservative"

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak sends MPs away with a flurry of fibs at PMQs

MPs vanish as Rish! turns PMQs into excruciating session of prime minister’s evasions

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the civil service: besieged by ideology

Editorial: Tensions between ministers and mandarins are the product of impossible policy demands derived from unrealistic dogmas

The Guardian - UK

‘Are the police too PC?’ How daytime TV became a hotbed of rightwing politics

It was once the happy home of fun and frivolous chat. But daytime TV is now a tabloid-stoked talking shop for extreme views and culture-war narratives. We dissect the rise of conflict TV

The Guardian - UK

Shades of Gray: what does appointment say about Starmer?

The row over senior civil servant and Partygate investigator Sue Gray’s appointment as chief of staff for the Labour Party has further intensified, with allies insisting that she is facing “a political witch hunt” over an inquiry into her departure from Whitehall.

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The Guardian - UK

An image that should never have been published, and lessons that must be learned

Errors led to the publication of a cartoon of BBC chairman Richard Sharp, its withdrawal and an apology, says Elisabeth Ribbans, the Guardian and Observer’s global readers’ editor

Daily Mirror

Maths-obsessed Rishi Sunak humiliated after getting stats wrong in Commons

In a further embarrassing turn of events, official fact-checking website Full Fact instantly debunked two more incorrect claims Rishi Sunak has made at PMQs sessions

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson’s former aide Cleo Watson hopes new political novel doesn’t lose her friends

The book has characters inspired by real Downing Street colleagues

The Conversation

Can Rishi Sunak save the Tories? Voting behaviour over time suggests it will take more than personal appeal to win the next election

One of the key findings of research into elections is that there is a close relationship between the popularity of party leaders and support for their parties in elections. The reason for this relates to how people make up their minds when voting. Many people consider issues or draw on…

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The Independent UK

Keir Starmer should ask Sue Gray to co-operate with probe, says minister

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the Government of pursuing a ‘vendetta’ against the former senior civil servant.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accused of pursuing ‘vendetta’ against former top civil servant Sue Gray

The prime minister is ‘doubling down’ on Boris Johnson’s ‘vendetta’ against Ms Gray over her Partygate investigation, Labour’s Rachel Reeves said

Daily Mirror

UK should ban smoking and slap taxes on fruit juice says George Osborne

The Tory austerity architect said 'anti-nanny state Conservatives' are 'not worth listening to' as he took aim at Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak for delaying a ban on junk food advertising

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Why did a heavily trailed update on Gray’s new job never materialise?

In today’s newsletter: The author of the investigation into government parties during lockdown has herself become the subject of an inquiry – but why was it held back?

Daily Mirror

London builds TWICE as many council homes as rest of England as Sadiq Khan blasts Tories

Sadiq Khan is demanding ministers raise their ambitions as it emerged construction started on 10,000 council homes in the capital last year, compared to just 4,325 across the rest of England in the previous year

The Independent UK

Fake ‘Boris Johnson’ arrested for drink-driving by Dutch police

Motorist refused to give police any licence, but a fake ID featuring the name and picture of the former UK PM was later found in his car

The Independent UK

Ex-BBC chief calls on Government to ‘overhaul’ public appointments process

It follows the resignation of BBC chairman Richard Sharp.

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