We’re not writing our 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.
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You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.
And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.
- Boris Johnson has urged the prime minister to abandon her Chequers plan and “change the course of the negotiation” on Brexit, in a 4,000-word intervention aiming to recapture the narrative before the Conservative party conference.
- Nearly two-thirds of businesses have yet to do any risk assessment of a no-deal outcome in the Brexit negotiations as “Brexit fatigue” sets in, the British Chambers of Commerce has found.
- Jeremy Corbyn has sparked fresh fears in Brussels of a no-deal Brexit after saying during talks with senior EU Brexit officials that he will vote down anything that fails to deliver the same benefits as membership of the single market and customs union.
- Derek Hatton, the hard-left former deputy leader of Liverpool council, has rejoined the Labour party – 33 years after he was booted out by the then leader Neil Kinnock.
- The Conservatives risk becoming “a rump party of nostalgic nationalists”, senior ministers have said after Labour announced a package of interventionist policies aimed at middle England.
Local council byelections take place on Thursdays, and there were three yesterday. Britain Elects has two of the results.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was somewhere in the middle. A tale of three city local by-elections in Andrew's Previews for @britainelects https://t.co/RQgDlfJFAg
— Andrew Teale (@andrewteale) September 27, 2018
Eccles (Salford) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 27, 2018
LAB: 54.6% (-7.1)
CON: 24.1% (+0.9)
LDEM: 7.9% (+7.9)
GRN: 6.3% (-3.1)
UKIP: 5.1% (+5.1)
WEP: 2.0% (+2.0)
Labour HOLD.
Chgs. w/ 2016.
Clifton North (Nottingham) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 27, 2018
CON: 47.7% (+12.1)
LAB: 33.8% (-4.2)
NOTI: 11.2% (+11.2)
LDEM: 3.3% (+3.3)
GRN: 2.3% (+2.3)
BPEP: 1.7% (+1.7)
Conservative GAIN from Labour.
No UKIP (-22.0) as prev.
