I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.
Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat others with respect and don’t resort to abuse. Guardian comment pages are supposed to be a haven from the Twitter/social media rant-orama, not an extension of it.
You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.
And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.
- Jeremy Corbyn has told Morgan Stanley it is right to regard him as a threat, after the investment bank warned its clients that a Labour government could pose as much of a risk to British business as Brexit.
- The White House has claimed that Donald Trump was trying to “elevate the conversation” by sharing anti-Muslim videos from a British far right group.
- Pressure is mounting on Theresa May’s effective deputy, Damian Green, after a detective who examined his computer said it contained thousands of pornographic images.
- Increasing numbers of fast food takeaways are springing up close to schools in England, with pupils in the most socially deprived areas exposed to five times as many outlets as their richest peers.
- The boss of Fortnum & Mason says the world famous London store is struggling to recruit staff after the Brexit vote with the situation most acute in its restaurants.
On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were four yesterday. Britain Elects has the results.
Only four council by-elections tonight: defences for the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP. @andrewteale's previews:https://t.co/eV9t2Xk6Lm
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 30, 2017
Westway (Tandridge) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 30, 2017
LDEM: 53.5% (+17.5)
CON: 26.5% (-2.5)
LAB: 13.1% (-2.8)
UKIP: 6.9% (-12.2)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Bridgemary North (Gosport) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 30, 2017
LDEM: 57.9% (+57.9)
LAB: 22.9% (-49.0)
CON: 19.2% (-8.9)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.
Liberal Democrat GAIN North (Maidstone) from Conservative.
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 30, 2017
North (Maidstone) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 1, 2017
LDEM: 51.4% (+20.0)
CON: 26.0% (-6.0)
LAB: 19.3% (+8.0)
GRN: 3.4% (-2.1)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
No UKIP (-19.9) as prev.
Torrington (Torridge) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 1, 2017
LDEM: 60.2% (+60.2)
IND: 15.5% (+15.5)
CON: 13.6% (-6.0)
GRN: 6.5% (-15.9)
UKIP: 4.2% (-16.8)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from UKIP.
No (other) Ind (-24.6) and Lab (-12.4) as prev.
