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Voters dissatisfied with the Labour leadership’s stance on the war in Gaza or its caution on the environment are willing to punish the party

‘I regret whenever someone decides that they can’t bring themselves to vote for Labour, and we will seek to rebuild the trust of those communities’

He’s not the man to lead Scotland to independence, but after a turbulent few years, he’s the safe pair of hands the party needs, says Herald columnist Dani Garavelli

The real Conservative plot is a subversive struggle against reality. In last Thursday’s elections, the Tories lost 397 seats and Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens gained a total of 394; in Blackpool South, the by-election swing from the Conservatives to Labour was more than 20 per cent for…

In the end, it was not all that close. Sadiq Khan secured a historic third term as London Mayor with 44 per cent of the vote over Conservative challenger Susan Hall’s 33 per cent. If anything, the uncertainty over the change to the voting system to first-past-the-post seemed to focus…

Ms Berry’s resignation means that the party’s mayoral candidate Zoe Garbett will take her place at City Hall

Sadiq Khan tells Standard the scale of his re-election as mayor means PM was deluded to believe the country was not set for a Labour victory

The Welsh parliament could make wilfully misleading the public a criminal offence. The rest of the UK deserves the same protection from untruths, says the barrister and broadcaster Sam Fowles

Defence secretary makes statement after 270,000 payroll records belonging to members of Britain’s armed forces been exposed to hackers

The PM has danced to their tune and the dreadful election results were the inevitable outcome. The solution can’t be more of the same, says the former Conservative MP Justine Greening

Tories will crow about falling inflation and Britain’s waning recession. But the public sees the reality in its shopping basket, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee