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.
- Veteran MP Frank Field has resigned as Labour whip over antisemitism in the Labour party and has highlighted what he called a “culture of nastiness, bullying and intimidation”.
Frank Field resigns Labour whip over antisemitism crisis Read more
- Senior Scottish National party politicians have defended Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the harassment allegations against Alex Salmond and downplayed a bitter rift inside the party.
SNP politicians praise Sturgeon’s ‘dignity’ in Salmond case Read more
- Poland’s nationalist government is seeking to persuade the EU to be more open to the UK’s Brexit plans as Jeremy Hunt said he had so far seen scant evidence of any hopeful movement from Brussels on the Chequers proposals.
Hunt downplays signs of Brexit progress as Poland offers support Read more
- Sadiq Khan, has warned that the planned expansion of universal credit to millions more people from next year poses a “significant threat of harm” to vulnerable claimants.
Sadiq Khan calls for rollout of universal credit to be paused Read more
On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There was only one yesterday. Britain Elects has the results.
Farningham, Horton Kirby & South Darenth (Sevenoaks) result:
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) August 30, 2018
CON: 55.7% (-1.7)
LDEM: 26.7% (+26.7)
LAB: 17.6% (-5.6)
Conservative HOLD.
No Grn (-19.5) as prev.
Updated
