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Labour to make fighting global heating a priority for Bank of England

Shadow chancellor to use annual Mais lecture to set out plans to green the economy if party wins election

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BBC apologises for calling Reform UK ‘far right’

Reform party leader Richard Tice says he expects BBC to change its editorial guidelines

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OPINION - Rachel Reeves pitches herself as Labour's Margaret Thatcher (annoying just about everyone)

Few suspected at the time that the 1979 election was also a 1979 moment. Sure, the gravediggers were on strike and James Callaghan spoke of a "sea-change in politics" about which there was little anyone could do. But the Conservative manifesto of that year was far from unadulterated Thatcherism. Not…

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OPINION - Who will be the next Tory leader? It's best to start with the F word...

“Stop messing around” was Kemi Badenoch’s forthright advice to desperate Tory backbenchers, flirting with a Hail Mary leader switch before the election. The ex-defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who speaks as if addressing a slightly dim Army platoon, put the same thought just more pessimistically, as he urged colleagues to set…

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London mayoral election: Lib Dems' Rob Blackie takes aim at Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall as he launches campaign

The candidate said Labour’s Sadiq Khan ‘blames everyone else’ for failures on crime, while Tory candidate Susan Hall is ‘beyond the pale’

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Ben Wallace tells Tory rebels it is ‘too late’ to replace Rishi Sunak before the election

The former Defence Secretary told the Tories to ‘get on with it’

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Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons

Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support

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Penny Mordaunt’s Tory leadership rivals blamed for coup plot rumours

Allies of Commons leader say other future candidates for top job are trying to make her look disloyal

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Labour has not got long to find its moral compass

Letters: Peter Riddle says voters fear they will get Tory-lite policies and calls for honesty, while Carl Gardner says the party should make the UK attractive to struggling people, not big business. Plus letters from Martyn Taylor and Michael Meadowcroft

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My late husband, Bernie Grant, received vicious abuse like Diane Abbott

Letter: Sharon Grant calls on the Labour party to address its deep-seated problems with race and the abuse that its black MPs have received for decades

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Loyalty was once the glue that held the Tories together. But now they’ve come unstuck

Claims of a leadership bid are ‘bonkers’, say Penny Mordaunt’s allies. But so too is staying silent while the PM stumbles towards an election, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Diane Abbott is Proof That as a Black Woman, You Are Held to Higher Standards and Criticised More Harshly

It's no surprise so many black women support Diane Abbott — they know how it feels to be vilified

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OPINION - Penny Mordaunt could shut down the Tory leadership rumours instantly — her silence is telling

Two prime ministers in the space of two years may be a disagreeable necessity. Three starts to look like Italy. But four? Four! The very possibility that the Tory party, even given its well-known ruthlessness, may present the nation with another unelected leader before the election is, in the words…

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OPINION - The Standard View: Keir Starmer joining Sadiq Khan highlights a tale of two mayoral election campaigns

The symbolism and shared purpose were unmistakable: the likely next prime minister of the UK standing shoulder to shoulder with the likely next mayor of London, for the launch of Labour’s mayoral election campaign. Despite polling leads, the party is bringing out the big guns and taking nothing for granted.

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Rishi Sunak hints the Tories would accept another £5 million from racism storm donor Frank Hester

The PM’s delay in branding the donor’s outburst as racist has added to disquiet among some Tory MPs over his leadership

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It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

Former defence secretary tells colleagues there is no alternative to Rishi Sunak and to ‘get on with’ preparing for an election

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Only ‘one or two’ Tory MPs plotting against Sunak, says Badenoch

Business secretary dismisses reports of plot and rejects calls for her party to return donations from Frank Hester

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Vaughan Gething’s win in Wales is cause for celebration – but he still has tough questions to answer

The new Welsh Labour leader will be Europe’s first Black head of government. Now he must address concerns about donations to his campaign, says Richard Wyn Jones, director of the Wales Governance Centre

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London mayoral election: Sadiq Khan launches re-election campaign with pledge of 40,000 council homes

He stresses the prospect of a Labour government and Labour mayor are a ‘once in a generation” chance to ease London’s housing crisis

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Frank Hester’s TPP employed Conservative peer as trade envoy in 2016

Exclusive: Lady Manzoor was paid £148,000 for the part-time role, showing Hester’s party links date back further than first thought

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Labour landslide will be much harder to achieve than in 1997, analysis shows

Starmer’s shadow cabinet is less popular than Blair’s, and Britons and have lost confidence in politicians and in their own prospects

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Sunak to try to calm Tory jitters amid reports of plot to oust him

PM’s allies fight rearguard action as rebellious MPs reportedly plot coup to avoid wipeout at the polls

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Hester row and Anderson defection have left Sunak weaker than ever

Even centrist Tories are questioning if the PM can last until autumn after twin blows of donor scandal and rightwinger’s move to Reform

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Lord McAvoy obituary

Trade unionist and stalwart Scottish Labour politician who served as a whip in the Commons and Lords

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Ed Davey calls for cap on political donations after Frank Hester storm

Lib Dem leader uses conference speech to urge change ‘so that even the wealthiest racists cannot buy power’

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