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Foreign sex offenders will be banned from claiming asylum in the UK, says Home Office

Amendment to bill would affect anyone who qualifies for sex offender register, but charities concerned that move is being rushed

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

No 10 bullish about immigration, despite Labour MPs’ concerns about rightward shift

Reform looks set for success in local elections, but government insiders say they aren’t chasing Farage with approach

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

Starmer Plots Major Immigration Crackdown After Fearing Labour Bloodbath at the Ballot Box

Sir Keir Starmer is gearing up to unveil a tough new crackdown on immigration after this week’s local elections — with Labour bracing for a hammering from Reform UK.

The Fashion Central · Apr 28, 2025

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The Guardian view on England’s local elections: we must build something better than this

Editorial: This week’s polls could mark the end of two-party dominance. A more proportional, progressive politics must be ready to replace it

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

Sound the alarm for a KemiKaze breakfast, then hit snooze for the Starmer roadshow

It’s local elections week and the party leaders are putting their faces out there, whether we want to see them or not

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

Shouts of ‘shame’ after Lee Anderson asks Jess Phillips if she is part of child grooming gang cover up

There were shouts of “shame” in the Commons after Reform’s Lee Anderson asked Labour’s Jess Phillips if she is part of child grooming gang cover up.

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025

Employment rights bill ‘improves Labour’s favourability among voters’

Polling for TUC suggests measures could lure voters back from Reform, Greens or independents, but finds low awareness

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

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Labour and Conservatives face a challenging electoral test

Letters: Readers respond to the upcoming local elections in England and the possibility of disillusioned voters abandoning the main parties

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

Voices: Nigel Farage is on the brink of another election breakthrough… but at what cost?

COMMENT: With voters set to desert Labour and Tories at the local elections in favour of Reform UK, will the populist protest party be able to run services and balance the books of hard-pressed city councils? Of course not, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025

Thursday’s elections will be ‘tough’, PM admits as campaigning enters final week

The upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election will run alongside local elections and it is expected to be a tight contest between Labour and Reform UK.

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025

Reform urged to reveal funding sources after chasing super-wealthy donors

REFORM UK have been urged to reveal who funds them and to rule out donors with links to Russia – after the party bragged it was targeting wealthy…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 28, 2025

Polling guru says Reform has ‘already won’ next week’s elections

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The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025

Populists like Farage promise voters a simpler life. In fact, they produce ever more hassle and chaos

Centrists won’t beat Reform UK by echoing its messages. They should emphasise the true unworkability of policies like Brexit, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

Reform UK challenged to give details on donations after £2m mailshot campaign

Exclusive: Liberal Democrats say voters need to know sources of funding for Nigel Farage’s party before local elections

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025

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Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2025

Political parties enter final campaign push ahead of local elections

Voters will go to the polls in 23 council areas across England on Thursday May 1, and will choose a new MP in Runcorn and Helsby.

The National (Scotland) · Apr 27, 2025

Kemi Badenoch fails to rule out local coalitions with Reform

Mrs Badenoch also insisted she would not go into coalition with Nigel Farage or Reform at national level.

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

‘Tories are not listening’: Ed Davey sure Lib Dems can woo more disgruntled voters

Leader hopes local elections in many traditionally Conservative areas will help party build on recent success

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2025

Voters deserting Labour and Tories as Reform to claim hundreds of seats at local elections, top pollster says

Exclusive: Professor Sir John Curtice says the big winner of the local elections is already Nigel Farage, whose party he claims has ‘murdered the Tories’

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Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2025

Badenoch ‘not worried’ donor announcing £1m for Reform could be first of many

It has been reported that Bassim Haidar has announced he is giving £1 million to Reform.

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are people who fix church roofs. Yes: that’s why we’re popular and she isn‘t

It may baffle our rivals, but we are proud to be local representatives who care about their communities, says Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says

Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

The National (Scotland) · Apr 27, 2025

'It will backfire': Will Reform UK benefit from John Swinney's anti-far-right summit?

John Swinney’s decision to host an anti-far-right summit in a bid to stand up to the growing influence of Reform UK may have come “too late”…

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2025

Labour crisis as the city of John Prescott turns its back on Starmer

Canvass returns seen by The Independent suggest that Labour could be a distant third to Reform and the Lib Dems in their former heartland of Hull and East Yorkshire

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2025

Key seats to watch in the 2025 local elections

NEWS ANALYSIS: Will a string of controversial policies be Labour’s downfall at the ballot box? And will Reform surge ahead leaving the Tories in their wake as pollsters predict? Kate Devlin looks at where the votes will count the most on 1 May

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2025

Why these are the most important local elections since Boris Johnson won London in 2008

NEWS ANALYSIS: Polls have put Reform UK ahead for months now but these local elections will be the first test of whether the traditional two-party Labour-Tory grip on British politics is under threat, writes David Maddox

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