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Local elections 2026: What is each party offering voters?

More than one million people are eligible to vote on Thursday in the biggest set of elections since 2024

The Independent UK

Offord: ‘Racist’ used too loosely and is too accusatory

The Reform UK Scotland leader said Scots were raising legitimate concerns about fairness.

Evening Standard

Too good to be true: on the road with Nigel Farage – photo essay

Guardian photojournalist Sean Smith has been following the Reform UK leader as he criss-crosses the country on a busy schedule of walkabouts and meet-ups with prospective councillors and supporters before the May elections

The Guardian - UK

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Watchdog weighs investigation into Farage’s undisclosed £5m gift

Electoral Commission considers inquiry after Tories said Reform leader should have declared money from billionaire

The Guardian - UK

'We'll win Havering,' declares Nigel Farage as Reform targets three more London councils in local elections

Exclusive: Reform UK leader convinced party will win Havering - and could seize Bexley, Bromley, and Barking and Dagenham

Evening Standard

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

Exclusive: women ‘massively underrepresented’ in next week’s local and devolved elections, campaigners say

The Guardian - UK

Question Time crowd erupts as Reform spokesperson claims no other party ‘ more successful in fixing potholes’

Reform's Zia Yusuf clashed with Fiona Bruce as he failed to answer a question about potholes five times on Thursday’s (30 April) episode.

The Independent UK

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‘I feel betrayed’: Golders Green demands action as politicians visit scene of terror attack

Keir Starmer met with boos and jeers as Nigel Farage tells crowds the PM has been ‘weak’ on pro-Palestinian marches

The Guardian - UK

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Reform’s Offord says no backlash to debate comments about his success

The Reform UK Scottish leader was earlier branded ‘out of touch’ after telling a TV election debate he owns six houses, five cars and six boats.

The Independent UK

Welsh Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan shouts ‘vote Plaid Cymru’ in major campaign gaffe

The slip of the tongue was met with amusement

The Independent UK

How immigration is playing a role in the Scottish election, even though policy is set in Westminster

No single issue has dominated the agenda ahead of the Scottish parliament election in May. But immigration, despite being a matter not devolved to Holyrood, has been part of campaigns. This is because some parties use it to feed wider anxieties about housing, jobs, public services and identity.

The Conversation

Becoming Scotland’s next first minister is my only focus, says Sarwar

He also said he aims to ‘persuade’ more people over the next week to vote Labour with a vow to ‘deliver change’.

Evening Standard

‘They’re as lost and inauthentic as us’: the Oscar winner who made a Farage satire – and released it on WeTransfer

In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online platform

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Kemi Badenoch: The Conservatives are the only party that actually stands up to Sadiq Khan

All Labour seem to do is spend other people’s hard-earned money on bizarre ideological nonsense, writes Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ed Davey: We listen to local people, put in the hard graft and never take people for granted

London is desperate for something different, writes Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey

Evening Standard

OPINION - Nigel Farage: Londoners are fed up with being taken for granted and betrayed by the old political parties

Fourteen years of Conservative government broke Britain. Almost two years of this Labour government has only made things worse, writes Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

The Guardian - UK

Could Lib Dems become the biggest party in English local government?

With voter loyalty a distant memory, the Lib Dems’ cost of living policies and criticism of Trump could gain them ground

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Evening Standard

Local elections 2026: Labour to lose 75% of council seats, polling guru predicts

Lord Hayward said Sir Keir Starmer's party will be down some 1,850 councillors after the polls close on May 7

The Guardian - UK

Polanski criticised for reposting comment suggesting police arresting Golders Greens suspect used excessive force – as it happened

Home Office minister says ‘the Green Party has hit a new low’ after party leader’s repost on X

Evening Standard

Local elections 2026: Starmer slams Polanski's Greens and Farage's Reform UK for false 'shortcuts' to boost London

Exclusive: Prime Minister tears into political opponents blocking new homes and ‘driving a wedge between communities’

The Guardian - UK

‘Reform is an acute threat to Scottish self-government,’ says John Swinney

Polling puts Reform, led in Scotland by former peer Malcolm Offord, neck and neck with Labour for second place

Evening Standard

May 7 elections in England, Scotland and Wales: What you need to know

Elections are being held for the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd in Wales and 136 councils in England.

Evening Standard

May 7 elections: Hour-by-hour guide to results

Results will be declared from the early hours of Friday through to Saturday evening.

Evening Standard

SNP majority would stop Farage at the border, Swinney says

The First Minister said an SNP majority would lock Reform UK out of power in Scotland.

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