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Senior Tory MP Tracey Crouch to stand down at general election

Around 60 Conservative MPs have now said they will not seek re-election

Evening Standard

The big idea: why we need to kick big money out of UK politics

Our system of wealthy donors chips away at democracy, but what could replace it?

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Sir Keir Starmer must withdraw support from Labour's Rochdale candidate

It is all a Jewish conspiracy, you see. Labour’s candidate for the Rochdale by-election, Azhar Ali, told a party meeting that Israel had “deliberately” allowed the October 7 massacre — in which Hamas murdered 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostage — to go ahead to give them “the…

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Deleted WhatsApps and iPad uproar: SNP a year after Sturgeon resignation

While members appreciate Humza Yousaf’s more inclusive style, party is facing heavy losses at next general election

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak tells voters he is ‘absolutely’ committed to Rwanda during Q&A on GB News – as it happened

Prime minister faces one-hour grilling from voters following day of campaigning in Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Minister Greg Hands in fight to win his seat to avoid Tory wipeout in central London, say political experts

The Conservatives currently hold three seats in central London but Labour is strongly targeting at least two of them

Evening Standard

Labour criticised for backing Rochdale candidate after offensive Israel remark

Support for Azhar Ali in looming byelection is a failure to tackle antisemitism, says leading campaigner

The Guardian - UK

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Sir Keir Starmer slammed for 'tin-eared' response to anti-Israel rant by Labour Rochdale by-election candidate

A shadow minister confirmed that Labour’s campaign backing Cllr Ali in Rochdale would continue

Evening Standard

More than 1.5m patients in England waited at least 12 hours in A&E in past year

Lib Dems say last month an average of 5,735 people a day faced waits of 12 hours or more to be seen

The Guardian - UK

Labour Rochdale by-election candidate apologises for ‘deeply offensive’ Israel claims

Azhar Ali’s comments were described as ‘totally reprehensible’ by Jewish groups

Evening Standard

Labour’s green rowback: honest politics or a costly mistake?

Letters: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves cannot promise to spend £28bn they don’t yet have, writes former party leader Neil Kinnock, while others argue that funding a green future is not a matter of ambition but necessity

The Guardian - UK

Starmer and Reeves should listen to Brown’s call for action on child poverty

Letters: Susan Treagus thinks Labour’s top team should ask the former chancellor for policy help, Shelagh Young says destitute families deserve more, and Les Bonney advocates reading the poem Timothy Winters

The Guardian - UK

Bring back Boris voices are growing louder but will a desperate Sunak listen?

The prime minister, whose party faces electoral wipeout, may feel he has no choice but to give the Tories’ star campaigner another chance

The Guardian - UK

If disillusionment is all Keir Starmer delivers as prime minister, I fear Labour will shrivel and die

It’s as if the leader is deleting all the reasons to vote for his party, and bowing to a destructive rightwing agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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‘The ultimate protest against Labour’: George Galloway’s bid to win Rochdale

Labour’s 9,668 majority in Greater Manchester seat challenged by Galloway’s Gaza-focused campaign

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Bring back Boris Johnson, Kwasi Kwarteng tells Rishi Sunak

Ex-chancellor calls on Sunak to ‘swallow some pride’ and bring back ‘electoral force’ that is former PM

Evening Standard

Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism

The PM’s comment, made while the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was in Parliament, sparked a backlash.

The Guardian - UK

By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum

Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories

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Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

The Guardian - UK

Are older, richer voters really against big spending? Maybe not as much as Labour fears

Starmer desperately wants to win back the trust of a crucial, and famously cautious, demographic. But support for public investment is growing, writes economics editor Philip Inman

The Guardian - UK

‘The mother of all U-turns’: after Labour’s £28bn green policy climbdown, what’s left?

Labour’s spending pledge war is over. Some believe the party’s election campaign will be stronger. Others wonder if Starmer and Reeves now stand for anything at all

The Guardian - UK

We’ve given up the fight, say top Tories as byelection defeats loom

Senior Conservative says party has descended into ‘death spiral’ as poll losses set to fuel fresh attacks on Sunak’s leadership

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: Labour’s green U-turn has threatened its plan for growth

The party’s decision to drop a commitment to spending £28bn a year will have a negative effect on its other investment plans

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs facing wave of independent challengers over stance on Gaza

Well-funded candidates are being chosen to stand against the party’s MPs who have failed to back an immediate ceasefire

The Guardian - UK

Disastrous Truss budget forced UK councils to take out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates

Debt Management Office figures show lasting impact of mini-budget that spooked financial markets, says Labour’s Angela Rayner

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