Politics Live – readers' edition: Friday 5 October

Jeremy Corbyn holds tight on a visit to the Climbing Lab in Leeds, which was damaged by floods in 2015. He was supporting the city’s bid for more funding for flood defences. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

8.24am BST

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.

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.

• Ireland’s prime minister has urged Theresa May to publish her revised Brexit border plan “as soon as possible” so the UK and EU can seal a Brexit deal in November.

Related: Irish PM urges May to publish border plan 'as soon as possible'

• Male workers with few qualifications will be the hardest hit by fresh barriers to trade erected after Britain leaves the European Union, according to one of the UK’s leading thinktanks.

Related: Men with few qualifications 'most exposed to Brexit'

• Government plans to move 3 million people currently receiving tax credits and disability benefits on to universal credit from next April will trigger an explosion in food bank use, the Trussell Trust has warned.

Related: Food bank use will soar after universal credit rollout, warns charity

• The Green party has called for GDP to be replaced as a measure of national wellbeing with an index showing how much free time people have to enjoy, arguing that leisure can contribute more to overall happiness than wealth.

Related: Green party calls for Free Time Index to replace GDP measure

• The government has been accused of attempting to cover up school budget cuts in England, after the UK’s statistics watchdog said it would investigate ministers’ use of spending figures that included private school fees to fend off criticism.

Related: Government accused of covering up schools cuts with misleading figures

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were three yesterday. Britain Elects has two of the results.

Three council by-elections tonight: Tory defences in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire and a Labour defence in Chesterfield.@andrewteale previews them here: https://t.co/6Hj2sexNw5

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 4, 2018

Soham North & Isleham (Cambridgeshire) result:

CON: 48.8% (-17.4)
LDEM: 30.0% (+12.5)
LAB: 10.9% (-5.5)
IND: 10.4% (+10.4)

Conservative HOLD.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 4, 2018

Moor (Chesterfield) result:

LDEM: 47.1% (+12.1)
LAB: 39.4% (-9.9)
CON: 7.4% (-8.3)
UKIP: 6.1% (+6.1)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 4, 2018