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Is Reform UK helping Labour into power?
As we’ve heard, Reform came close to pushing the Tories into third place in the Blackpool South by-election, but their national vote share after the local elections is looking like just 11 per cent. Good enough to damage the Tories, not good enough to win seats themselves – and so far they’ve only won one…
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Is Labour’s stance on Gaza behind the party’s failure to win any council seats in Pendle?
There are other places where there have been clear signs that Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the Gaza war has cost Labour votes. In Pendle in Lancashire, Labour failed to win any seats on the borough council. There’s evidence that the party has taken a hit in areas with significant muslim populations.
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Labour gains control of Nuneaton and Bedworth council after Conservative loss
We’re in one area that switched from Tory to Labour last night. Before yesterday, the Conservatives were in control of Nuneaton and Bedworth council in Warwickshire. But they lost 11 seats and Labour gained power by winning 15.
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‘No doubt Gaza has been a factor’ in Labour local election defeats, says Shadow Home Secretary
We spoke to Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary.
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Tory MP defects to Labour over NHS ‘chaos’
The Tory MP and former health minister Dan Poulter has defected to Labour, saying his recent shifts as an NHS doctor made it impossible for him to continue as a Conservative in the Commons. He is the first Tory MP to defect to Labour since Christian Wakeford crossed the floor in January 2022 in protest…
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Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner being investigated by police
It’s the housing scandal that refuses to go away. No, not the chronic shortage of housing in Britain, but the question of which house Angela Rayner lived in some ten years ago and whether she broke electoral law.
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FactCheck: does Labour’s plan to raise £5bn make sense?
Labour has announced a new pledge to raise £5.1 billion per year by the end of its first five years in office if it wins the next election.
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Will Labour bring back Sure Start under the Shadow Chancellor’s new plans?
The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves was left with a multi-billion pound black hole in her spending plans when the government adopted some of the revenue-raising policies she was planning to bring in – should Labour win the next election.
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Post Office: ‘To get justice, we need to get some of these people in court’,says Labour MP
We were joined by Labour MP, Kevan Jones.
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Shadow Chancellor on Labour’s plans for tax and childcare
We spoke to the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and began by asking her what she thought of the government’s national insurance cut which comes into effect on April 6th.
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Post Office: ‘People are furious in the House of Commons that parliament has been misled’, Labour MP says
We were joined by the Labour MP Liam Byrne, who chairs the Commons Business and Trade Committee.
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Netanyahu in ‘voyage to confrontation’ with US, former Israel Labour Minister says
We are joined by former Labour Minister Yossi Beilin.
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Rwanda bill: ‘Unelected Labour peers are blocking our plans’, says Tory Deputy Chairman
We spoke to Conservative Deputy Chairman Rachel Maclean. We started by asking her whether, following the 1922 committee meeting, Tory MPs may have given the prime minister only a temporary reprieve until after the upcoming local elections.
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Frank Hester’s reported comments about Diane Abbott ‘showed deep seated racism’ says Labour’s Dawn Butler
We spoke to the Labour MP Dawn Butler before Downing Street accepted that the comments are racist.
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The Political Fourcast: Did Tory budget steal Labour policies – and May election rumblings
Will we have a May General election? Will there be massive Conservative defeat in any Election that we do have this year? And what’s the economy got to do with it?
