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Local elections 2023: Key councils to watch out for as England goes to the polls

8,000 councillors will be elected in unitary, borough and district councils taking place across England

The Independent UK

Local elections 2023: Timetable of key results and events

All declaration times are estimates and could change

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: How parties will fare at the local elections – and where they go from here

In today’s newsletter: Will the Tories tank? Will Labour really gain? Here’s a guide to make sense of the local elections, and what it means for the next general elections

The Guardian - UK

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Local elections 2023: The key battlegrounds as Greater Manchester prepares to go to the polls

There are fears voters will forget to bring ID with them to polling stations and won't bother to return

Manchester Evening News

Gove and Hunt, beware: true-blue Surrey is ready to turf out the Tories – and you’re next

An avalanche is coming. The voters I met are abandoning the Conservatives over lying, cheating and Brexit, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Parents hit by 'cost of eating crisis' as price of school lunches rockets by a third

Free school meals funding has failed to keep up with the rising cost of food meaning schools are forced to make up the difference from teaching budgets, it has been warned

Daily Mirror

‘I know what injustice is’: Duwayne Brooks on losing Stephen Lawrence – and fighting to be London’s Tory mayor

Thirty years after the racist murder of his friend, Brooks wants to run the city whose police failed him and so many others – as a Conservative. What makes him think he can do better than Sadiq Khan?

The Guardian - UK

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Local election results times: Hour-by-hour guide to when key battles will be announced

The 230 councils being contested in the local elections were last up for grabs in the dying days of Theresa May's premiership in 2019, when the Tories suffered major losses at the ballot box

Daily Mirror

Cost of living, Brexit, sewage: how the Lib Dems plan to take Berkhamsted

Party aiming to capitalise on disillusionment with government in ‘blue wall’ Hertfordshire town in May’s local election

The Guardian - UK

Local Elections 2023: All the places the South Gloucestershire Council election could be won

We have analysed the main battlegrounds where control over the authority could be decided

Bristol Post

Local elections 2023: The councils to watch

Some of the key results to look for once the polls close.

The Independent UK

Local elections 2023: Timetable of key results and events

Votes will be counted overnight and during the next day.

The Independent UK

Lib Dem leader hopes for local election springboard to Westminster gains

Sir Ed Davey said voting trends in Tory heartlands should leave Rishi Sunak’s party strategists worried.

The Independent UK

Frustration at Labour and Lib Dem HQs as local parties ‘go rogue’ to create progressive alliance

List of council candidates in Tory heartland of Bracknell reveals de facto pact between opposition parties, undermining national positions

The Guardian - UK

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Manchester Evening News

The big issues on voters' minds ahead of Stockport's first 'all out' election in nearly 20 years

All 63 council seats will be up for grabs when the borough goes to the polls in May.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Scrap your tuition fees pledge, Labour, and end middle-class handouts

Tuition fees is the exploding bomb of British politics. It can go off in the hands of an unsuspecting leader and even lead, as in the case of poor Nick Clegg of the Lib Dems, to being forced to flee to Facebook. When he was running to be leader of…

The Guardian - UK

Potholes in England go unrepaired for up to 18 months

Lib Dem research finds nine councils where average repair time is four weeks or longer

The Independent UK

‘Postcode lottery’ as potholes take 18 months to fix in some areas – Lib Dems

Repairs took up to 567 days in Stoke-on-Trent and up to 556 days in Westminster City Council, according to data obtained by the Lib Dems.

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Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Less affordable than London?

The eye-watering cost of rent PLUS More officers disciplined over Whatsapp group AND GM councillor standing in the Cotswolds

The Independent UK

Fly-tipping ‘effectively legalised’ under Tories, claim Lib Dems

The Liberal Democrats have become the latest party to accuse ministers of failing to tackle rising levels of dumped waste.

The Independent UK

Revealed: More than 3,000 ‘monster’ sewage dumps into waterways last year

Government and water companies urged to ‘get a grip’ as high-frequency spills soar by 63%

The Independent UK

SNP poll lead for next general election slashed to five points

Redfield-Wilton released their latest polling, showing the SNP are still on course to win the most Scottish seats at the next general election.

The Guardian - UK

‘This is bigger than potholes’: Lib Dems tap into voter anger over sewage

Party is striking chord with ‘blue wall’ voters by championing a classic environmental issue

Evening Standard

OPINION - If we keep turning a blind eye to fraud it will corrode public trust

Buried in a lengthy new audit on public-sector fraud by the National Audit Office is a remarkable detail. It notes that at the time the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy was charged with handling the Bounce Back Loan scheme, it only had two full-time staff working in its…

Evening Standard

Local elections 2023: Where you can vote and how to get an emergency proxy

Keir Starmer is hoping Labour can make big gains in council elections

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