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Shocking Spray-Paint Slur: How 'F* Off Home' Message Rocked Reform UK After By-Election Loss?

Spray-paint slur hits Reform UK's Caerphilly office after by-election defeat. Powell condemns 'dark tricks' as Plaid Cymru claims victory.

International Business Times UK

Labour must counter ‘growing sense of despair’, Streeting warns after Welsh defeat

Health secretary urges party to take Caerphilly result to heart as Lucy Powell gets to work as deputy leader

The Guardian - UK

Furious battle over Budget inside government as Starmer urged to stop mansion tax plan

Rachel Reeves is said to be seriously considering a mansion tax to fill an estimated £40 billion budget black hole and appease the left of the Labour Party

The Independent UK

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Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried

Labour members – and Caerphilly voters – have made their feelings clear. When will the PM realise that his strategy just isn’t working, asks Morgan Jones of Renewal

The Guardian - UK

Streeting: Labour needs to counter ‘growing sense of despair’ and deliver

The Health Secretary said the party must demonstrate it is delivering the change it promised at the general election.

Evening Standard

Lucy Powell, Sacked by Starmer Weeks Ago, Now Elected as Labour's Deputy Leader

Lucy Powell has been elected deputy leader of the UK Labour Party, defeating Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in a contest shaped by internal discontent and recent electoral setbacks.

International Business Times UK

Streeting compares loss in Caerphilly by-election to day Starmer nearly quit

The health secretary compares defeat to one in Hartlepool, which almost forced Starmer to resign

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Labour not ‘bold enough’ says Powell as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell’s victory in the deputy leadership contest could add to Sir Keir Starmer’s headaches at the end of a bruising week.

Evening Standard

Labour’s new deputy leader says party must pay more heed to its members

Exclusive: Powell, who was sacked as Commons leader by Starmer in September, says government should stop trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’

The Guardian - UK

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Taverne dies aged 97

A former Labour Treasury minister and the first director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Lord Taverne became a Lib Dem peer in 1996.

Evening Standard

Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Epping sex offender arrested in north London after mistaken prison release

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

Evening Standard

Voices: Has Britain become ungovernable (again)?

COMMENT: It could be that Keir Starmer is no good as either prime minister or party leader, but, John Rentoul argues, we ought to look back to the 1970s and consider another theory: that he has been asked to take on an impossible job

The Independent UK

Lucy Powell says Labour not ‘bold enough’ in office as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell said: ‘We must give a stronger sense of our purpose, whose side we are on and of our Labour values and beliefs.’

Evening Standard

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least 4 people and wound 16

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine have killed at least four people and wounded 16 others, according to local officials

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The Independent UK

Meet Lucy Powell, the minister ousted by Starmer who is now his deputy

Lucy Powell’s victory is likely to be seen as a call from the Labour membership for a change of direction amid growing unhappiness with Keir Starmer’s government

The Independent UK

Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race to add to Starmer’s headaches

Lucy Powell has won Labour's deputy leadership election, having campaigned on a call for the party to change its course. Her victory could present difficulties for Sir Keir Starmer, as she will be able to speak out against government policies from the back benches. Powell was dismissed from Sir Keir's…

The Independent UK

Labour left piles pressure on Starmer as sacked critic elected to be his deputy leader

Lucy Powell beats Keir Starmer’s preferred candidate Bridget Phillipson in the contest to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership election

MP for Manchester Central had been seen as favourite ahead of rival Bridget Phillipson throughout contest

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Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell says she wants Starmer to succeed but party must change – as it happened

Powell, who was sacked from cabinet in September, says party must be ‘more principled and strategic, less tactical, and strongly guided by our values’

Evening Standard

Powell expected to be named Labour’s new deputy leader

Labour’s struggles in the polls have already led to some questions among backbenchers about Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of the party.

Evening Standard

Powell on course to become Labour deputy leader as polls close

A survey of party members found 57% back the former Commons leader, against 40% supporting Bridget Phillipson.

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Powell urged ministers to rethink legal action against Labour donor’s firm

Exclusive: Intervention by deputy leadership contender could have saved company based in her Manchester constituency millions

The Independent UK

‘We must turn Labour around’, deputy leadership frontrunner warns Starmer as she hits out at ‘mistakes’

Exclusive: Lucy Powell takes aim at PM over ‘missteps and mistakes’, saying she was sacked for opposing cuts and that the party must reconnect with lost voters – but not by copying Reform

The Guardian - UK

Labour deputy leadership contest may only cause more trouble for Starmer

Victory for Lucy Powell or Bridget Phillipson, the rivals at the centre of the race, could be reckoning for the party

Evening Standard

Labour deputy leader rivals begin their final week of campaigning

The deputy leadership contest was triggered after Angela Rayner stood down over a row over her tax affairs.

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