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Starmer ‘welcome’ on Welsh campaign trail if he brings more investment, FM says

Asked if she was happy for Sir Keir to be Prime Minister during Welsh Labour’s Senedd election campaign, Lady Morgan said ‘yes’.

Evening Standard

Byelection trouncing has lessons for Labour

Letters: Readers respond to the Green party’s victory in Gorton and Denton

The Guardian - UK

Labour Together ‘making clean break’ after former director resigns as minister

Thinktank’s board distances itself from Josh Simons’ decision in 2023 to hire lobbying firm to investigate journalists

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Green party membership in UK passes 200,000 after byelection victory

Party leader Zack Polanski says surge in numbers ‘proves that the future of progressive politics belongs to the Greens’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer was advised to ditch net zero. He needs to re-embrace it

After byelection defeat and with right-leaning advisers gone, will PM return to his instincts and embrace Labour ‘DNA’ on climate?

The Guardian - UK

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century

In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Labour can win Holyrood vote and ensure ‘new direction’ for Scotland – Sarwar

But recent polls put the party in third place behind the SNP and Reform ahead of the May 7 election.

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Boring or bust: Reeves aims to project calm competence in spring forecast

After 18 months of policy U-turns and political turmoil we are told not to expect any last-minute policy rabbits

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘Saying everyone who wants to reduce illegal migration is racist doesn’t get us very far’

One says illegal immigration is unfair, the other thinks more legal routes are needed – can they agree over the danger of a Tory/Reform alliance?

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

The Guardian - UK

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton

The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The Guardian - UK

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan

London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons resigns over Labour Together ‘distraction’

The Makerfield MP previously ran the prominent think tank.

Evening Standard

Burnham would ‘probably’ have won byelection, says Labour deputy leader

Lucy Powell calls for party to make more use of Greater Manchester mayor after Gorton and Denton defeat

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Rhun ap Iorwerth: Plaid Cymru is ready to ‘lead the charge’ in Wales

Leader launches ‘roadmap’ of first 100 days in power to show party is ready to govern if it wins Senedd elections

Evening Standard

Burnham would ‘probably’ have won by-election, says Labour deputy leader

Labour fell to third in the previously rock-solid seat of Gorton and Denton.

Evening Standard

Wales must shout louder, Plaid Cymru leader says

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth outlined his ambitions for the first 100 days of a Plaid Cymru administration in Wales.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s response to the Gorton and Denton debacle should be a government that truly, finally, reflects him

In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that don’t really match his core beliefs. That’s changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking, says the prime minister’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

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Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens

PM criticises ‘sectarian politics’ in byelection but party may fear Greens’ nascent leftwing political machine

Evening Standard

Home Secretary to warn Labour to resist leftward shift after by-election loss

The result of Thursday’s poll saw Labour come third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the seat.

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

Evening Standard

Gorton and Denton by-election bombshell: Five big takeaways

The by-election was a devastating blow for Sir Keir Starmer as Labour were pushed into a humiliating third place

The Independent UK

Starmer finds himself in a great Green mess – and he is now in the last chance saloon

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the PM is to rebound from this disastrous result and fend off Zack Polanski from Labour's left flank, he must drop every distraction and ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’

The Guardian - UK

‘Our own people hate us’: reality check for Labour as 13,000 majority vanishes

Party billed it as a two-horse race with Reform but Greens’ Hannah Spencer connected with voters in a way it could not

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs demand Starmer change course after humiliating byelection loss

Scale of defeat to Greens has plunged party into fresh despair and again raised prospect of leadership challenge

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