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OPINION - The Conservatives are reaching terminal velocity in their flight from sanity

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…

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OPINION - The Standard View: After a historic win, now it's time for Sadiq Khan to deliver his legacy

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…

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Greens' Sian Berry quits London Assembly just three days after re-election

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

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Sadiq Khan: Rishi Sunak's 'on something' if he thinks UK is heading for hung Parliament

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

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Lying politicians in the Senedd may finally be held to account – but why should we stop at Wales?

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

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Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened

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

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Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us

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

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Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy

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

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Rachel Reeves accuses Tories of ‘gaslighting’ public over economy

Shadow chancellor will highlight Labour’s plans to boost economy and say Conservatives are ‘out of touch’

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‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it

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Tory rebels call time on leadership challenge as Sunak limps on

Despite disastrous election results, long-threatened coup lacks numbers to force no-confidence vote

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John Swinney’s unfussy election as leader reflects his esteem within SNP

Party’s return to minority government after a year of upheaval will test his renowned negotiating skills

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The Guardian view on the local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era

Editorial: The surprise defeat of the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, confirmed that the tectonic plates are shifting in British politics

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John Swinney declares ‘new chapter’ as he becomes SNP leader

Swinney says party has been having a ‘tough, rough time’ as he laments impact of recent infighting and chaos

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Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections

Letters: The requirement to present photo ID at polling stations reinforces confidence in our elections, says Robert Frazer, but Maureen McLaughlin worries about those left without a vote. Plus letters from Nigel Evans and Peter Bottomley

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General election result is not a foregone conclusion, Sunak says

PM ‘absolutely determined to fight’ despite Tories’ disastrous local election results and Labour poll lead

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Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

After PM’s bold reading of disastrous Tory local election results, we assess the variables in play at national level

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England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped

They were meant to refresh local politics, not confuse it. Starmer must devolve proper powers to every city and town, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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SNP Old-hand John Swinney Set To Be Scotland's New Leader

Scotland's likely next leader John Swinney is a political veteran who will have to unify his fractured separatist party and revitalise its flagging independence movement.

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The big idea: why we need human rights now more than ever

In an age of climate crisis and AI, equal treatment is nothing less than essential

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John Swinney becomes SNP leader after rival drops out

Long-serving politician set to become first minister after taking over Scottish National party role from Humza Yousaf

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SNP activist ‘not leaned on’ to pull out of challenging Swinney for leadership

Depute leader insists Graeme McCormick’s last-minute withdrawal proof party is united

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General election result not a ‘foregone conclusion,’ says Sunak – UK politics as it happened

PM says he is ‘determined to fight on’ after disastrous local, mayoral and Blackpool byelection results last week

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There is a way for Starmer’s Labour to fix the big rift with Muslim voters – if it has the will

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham won elections in areas with large Muslim populations. Both engaged with us as citizens, says Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain

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Unloved but unchallenged, Sunak appears safe – because only a fool would want his job now

After the local elections, he has a broken party and an unenviable destiny. He is now the fall guy for the Tory wipeout to come, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome

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