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Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 16 February

The Houses of Parliament
The Houses of Parliament Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

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.

  • The chances of a young adult on a middle income owning a home have more than halved in the past two decades.
  • Sinn Féin has released documents which the party claimed proved that an agreement had been struck on power-sharing in Northern Ireland – only for the DUP to scupper the deal later.
  • More than 16,000 people have emailed Labour over the past five days, urging the party to consult members on Brexit after MPs said the topic was being ignored by its most senior policy body.
  • A growing number of Conservatives now back votes for 16-year-olds, with senior Tories predicting that the party could change its stance on younger voters before the next election.
  • Ukip has been edged closer to financial ruin after a judge ruled the party must contribute towards a £660,000 legal bill following a defamation action brought against one of its MEPs by three Labour MPs.

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were 14 last night. Britain Elects has most of the results.

And here’s a summary from Election Maps.

Updated

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