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UK police to investigate Labour leader over possible lockdown breach

British police said on Friday they would investigate opposition leader Keir Starmer over a potential breach of COVID-19 lockdown rules in 2021 after receiving significant new information, delivering an embarrassing blow to the Labour Party.

Reuters

Keir Starmer set to be investigated again over 'beergate' allegations

Reports claim that pressure from Tory MPs and rightwing newspapers may force Durham police to investigate Labour's beer and curry dinner break again.

Daily Record

When will local elections 2022 final results be announced? Count times for every council

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed some of the results returned by Labour in the Local Elections 2022, with particularly positive gains in London. Some seats are yet to be announced, so here's a guide to when they will be

Daily Mirror

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Keir Starmer says Labour is winning 'north and south' after town hall victories

Speaking in Barnet, the Labour leader said his party had "turned a massive corner" after taking key Tory strongholds in London and chalking up victories in Cumberland and Southampton

Daily Mirror

Starmer claims ‘massive turning point’ for Labour, despite failure to make breakthrough in North

‘An awful lot of work to do’: Elections guru says results do not put Starmer on route to No 10

The Independent UK

Local elections 2022: What's happened in UK so far as Tories suffer heavy losses in London

The Labour Party has swiped the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet from the Tories

Manchester Evening News

Local Election 2022: Conservatives lose 'Thatcher's favourite council' for first time since 1978

The London council of Wandsworth had been held by the Tories for over four decades

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Labour maintain control of South Tyneside Council but Greens and Independents also celebrate gains

The biggest surprise of the night itself came in the form of the Conservatives losing a favoured seat in Cleadon and East Boldon to the Green Party

Chronicle Live

Labour maintain control of Sunderland City Council as Lib Dems celebrate only gains of the night

Ahead of the vote, Sunderland was tipped as a city to watch as Conservative councillors predicted Labour could lose overall control

Chronicle Live

‘The man is a clown’: Voters give their verdict on polling day in key London boroughs

Rory Sullivan talks to voters in Wandsworth while Maryam Zakir-Hussein takes the polling day temperature in Barnet

The Independent UK

Sunderland Council local election results 2022: How every candidate scored

Local election results 2022 for Sunderland Council in full by the wards contested as they are declared on election night

Chronicle Live

Anas Sarwar accuses 'disgusting' Douglas Ross of using Ukraine suffering to protect Boris Johnson

Sarwar called on voters to reject the "toxic, out of touch, corrupt Tory party" at today's local elections

Daily Record

East Lothian Labour candidate loses party support - but remains on ballot paper

New of the withdrawal of support came too late to change ballot papers and polling station staff are under no obligation to make voters aware of the change ahead of them casting their votes tomorrow

Edinburgh Live

Greater Manchester local elections 2022: In-depth analysis of every borough... including an 'all out' race, our political hot potato and a controversial new battleground

Boris Johnson will be tested at the ballot box for the first time since the Downing Street lockdown parties scandal

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The Independent UK

Starmer warned expelling Nato-sceptic MPs could spark Labour civil war

The Labour leader hinted he could take action against MPs questioning the party’s ‘unshakeable support’ for the alliance.

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar denies sacking Labour candidate who backed independence

ANAS Sarwar has denied having any involvement in the sacking of an independence-supporting election candidate last year.

Daily Record

Anas Sarwar slams Scots Tories for 'desperate attempt' to cling onto second place at election

The Scottish Labour leader took aim at Douglas Ross' party over its tactics ahead of the vote on Thursday May 5.

The Independent UK

Labour and Lib Dems deny Tory accusations of local election pact

The claims from Conservative chair Oliver Dowden were branded ‘pretty desperate’ by Sir Ed Davey.

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Daily Mirror

'Things got better for millions after Labour's 1997 victory - and we threw it away'

Tony Blair, writing for the Mirror 25 years after he entered Downing Street, takes on the left and right who 'trash' his record - and says the party is on the road to governing again

Leeds Live

The race for votes in controversy-ridden Leeds suburb 'blighted' by sex trade where prostitutes walk past schoolchildren

The Leeds 'red light district' scheme has come to an end, but issues with the sex trade are still spilling onto residential streets in Beeston and Holbeck

Chronicle Live

Labour accused of trying to 'trick' voters into backing councillor suspended over 'Muslim plot' claim

The party's I Will Vote camapign website was still urging supporters to back Joyce McCarty almost a month after she was suspended amid an Islamophobia row

The Independent UK

Starmer says ‘stark contrast’ between his beer and Johnson’s Covid fine

The Labour leader said it makes ‘absolutely no difference’ if deputy Angela Rayner was present at the time.

Daily Mirror

Angela Rayner was with Keir Starmer on night of lockdown beer photo, Labour say

Labour sources admitted a 'genuine mistake' after an official initially denied she was there. But Labour denied Tory claims they broke the law and hit back: "They want people to think it’s all the same, so no scandal matters"

Chronicle Live

Durham Police insists it is not investigating Keir Starmer over lockdown breach claims

The Labour leader was filmed drinking a beer on a visit to Durham a year ago and he insisted he had done nothing wrong

The Independent UK

Rayner was with Starmer during lockdown beers, Labour admits

The party said its previous claims that the deputy leader was not present were a ‘genuine mistake’, and it insisted no Covid rules were broken

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