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People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Conservative supporters are hard to find in this area of Sheffield, but Lib Dems say Labour are taking these voters for granted

A Fixed-term Parliaments Act must be restored, so election dates suit the national interest – not the prime minister’s, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

New organisation behind protest outside Keir Starmer’s home has big plans for future political change

Any plans for ‘national renewal’ must focus on freeing the UK from its vice of wallowing in guilt or glory, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim.

But Labour slams the plan as too little, too late amid an epidemic of retail crime