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Polls open for two byelections in testing times for Tories and Labour

Conservatives expected to lose large majorities in Wellingborough and Kingswood despite difficult week for Keir Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Peers slam health and safety claim for Parliament traffic marshals costing £100,000s after 'eight near misses'

‘It depresses me that this sum of money is spent and these minor incidents are used as justification,’ says Tory peer Lord Hayward

Evening Standard

A lesson and a wake-up call from Rochdale: Labour has become too complacent about its big poll lead

There is no disputing that this episode has been damaging. Hopefully it will prompt Keir Starmer into an overdue rethink, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Sadiq Khan to 'consider' installing vast floor map of London at City Hall

The huge aerial map was a popular feature of the old City Hall, but it was left behind when the Greater London Authority moved to the Royal Docks

Evening Standard

Azhar Ali case demonstrates difficulty of selecting suitable would-be MPs

Pressure is mounting on Labour to overhaul its vetting to avoid damaging its relationships with communities

The Guardian - UK

Starmer facing test of authority as ‘immediate’ Gaza ceasefire vote looms

Labour leader already under fire over handling of two candidates who made derogatory remarks about Israel

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on shifting party allegiances: Labour’s routine poll leads hide great volatility

Editorial: A disparate anti-Tory voter coalition can carry the opposition to power, but governing will require a deeper galvanising purpose

The Guardian - UK

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Labour’s difficulties on Israel, Gaza and antisemitism

Letters: Readers respond to the crisis engulfing the party over remarks made by parliamentary candidates in Rochdale and Hyndburn

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The speed with which Keir Starmer has transformed Labour is both his greatest success and clearest weakness

The Ship of Theseus paradox is perhaps best demonstrated by the 2000s pop band, Sugababes (see: hit, after hit, after hit). The three original members, Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy each eventually left the group to be replaced in turn by a new singer, until none of the…

Evening Standard

SNP vote on Gaza ceasefire threatens to rip open divisions among Labour MPs

SNP plan to push another Gaza ceasefire motion after they failed to get one passed in November

Evening Standard

Labour’s cynical handling of the Azhar Ali affair will come back to haunt it in government

The Rochdale fiasco offers profound lessons about the leadership’s way of doing business – and its use of factionalism, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Who is Graham Jones and what did he say? Second Labour MP suspended over Israel comments

The Labour Party has suspended a second parliamentary candidate in the same week for comments about Israel

Evening Standard

‘You can’t deny the historic nature’: Wales’ Vaughan Gething aims to become first black leader of a European country

Economy minister says he is best candidate for top job and Senedd ‘needs to do more to look like our country’

The Guardian - UK

Report any antisemitism you hear, Labour members told as hate speech row deepens

Calls for others to be suspended if they failed to intervene at meeting where two parliamentary candidates abused Israel

Evening Standard

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UK's Labour Vows Action As Anti-Semitism Scandal Reemerges

Britain's main Labour opposition vowed Wednesday to act decisively over allegations of anti-Semitism, after suspending a second prospective MP over "unacceptable comments" about Israel.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer urged to suspend councillors at meeting that heard Israel comments

Labour leader under pressure over claims Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali’s remarks went unchallenged at event

The Guardian - UK

The grassroots Labour meeting at centre of party turmoil

Gathering of councillors in north-west England has resulted in suspensions of candidates Azhar Ali and Graham Jones

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s Rochdale mess: factionalism is damaging the party

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer may think his electoral coalition is large enough to take a hit over his Gaza policy. But his colleagues do not

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The Guardian - UK

‘97% seemed absurd’: Labour’s Stephen Timms on the English test scandal that wrecked lives

The London MP has battled to get the Home Office to take responsibility for its mistaken allegations of cheating against many thousands of overseas students

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s party leaders should heed overseas voters’ concerns

Letters: Readers react to an article by Polly Toynbee on expatriate citizens being given votes for life

The Guardian - UK

Azhar Ali row: how Keir Starmer has handled other members’ behaviour

Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Sam Tarry are among those who have tested the Labour leader

The Guardian - UK

‘George Galloway gave me a kiss’: Rochdale in flux after Labour decision

Party’s byelection canvassers told to stay home while voters weigh options in wake of Azhar Ali antisemitism scandal

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dim the streetlights and cancel Christmas – London's councils are going broke

No one ever wrote a folk song about local authority finances. Not even Lib Dem Glee Club will touch it. But when the money runs out, the rubbish piles up and the libraries shut their doors, voters quickly start to notice.

The Guardian - UK

Conspiracists, chancers and a sexter – Rochdale deserves better, and frankly we all do

You’ve got to feel for a constituency where Azhar Ali, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk are vying to be the least-worst candidate, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Young climate activists aim to sway six Labour candidate selections

Green New Deal Rising aiming to help create climate caucus in parliament by promoting candidates in marginal seats

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