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Labour leader insists party is cutting through with voters as he chats to locals and visits an ice-cream parlourOf all the people Keir Starmer should meet on a bank holiday visit to Blackpool, it was a former neighbour from decades ago who wanted to ch…
Discharge of raw sewage is mainstream concern in first local elections since Guardian revealed scale of problemRiver pollution has become a leading issue on doorsteps during the countdown to the local elections on Thursday.Thousands of seats are being …
Fears that number of people turned away at May’s local elections over identity could be underestimatedPolice forces have been alerted to the risk of a spike in disputes and confrontations at the forthcoming local elections, amid concern that new voter …
Chair says party could lose 1,000 English seats on 4 May, despite voters finding Rishi Sunak more palatable than his predecessors Even by the standards of political expectations management, Greg Hands’ message in his Sunday morning interviews was stark…
Exclusive: Experts say sensitive information could potentially have been harvested and used for targeted election interferenceThe voting intentions of millions of Britons in local authority wards across the country could have been at risk of misuse as …
Pressure mounts over health and economic pledges as Sunak campaigns to shore up Conservative heartlands in poll test• Read more: NHS crisis deepens as nurses plan ‘mega strike’A prolonged NHS crisis stoked by further strikes risks derailing Rishi Sunak…
The state Legislature votes to shore up consumer protections around robocalls.
People on small island of Portland say scheme would be bad for them and bad for those on the vesselPoliticians, businesspeople and residents have said housing asylum seekers on a barge off a Dorset island will be inhumane, put pressure on creaking loca…
Party leader says Labour would use windfall tax profits to stop rises in England, as local election campaign beginsPolitics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has pledged to use an extended windfall tax to freeze council tax for one year as Labour kicke…
Some intend to defect or stand as independents after ‘undemocratic’ deselection of mostly BAME councillorsThe Labour party in Leicester has been left reeling after 19 sitting councillors, the majority of them from BAME backgrounds, were deselected by t…