Local Elections 2022: What can we expect?
Labour will need to take next week’s results in their stride. Yet there are trends to watch.
Labour
Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Democracy dismembered
Scandal engulfs the Tory party as they push through a raft of authoritarian legislation.
Diane Abbott MP: What is at stake in the local government elections?
‘Representation at all levels of government matters because of what we can deliver.’
Labour Party seizes control of youth wing’s Twitter account
The move has been branded “deeply disappointing”, “designed to silence critics of Labour’s direction under Starmer”, and “a complete affront to the most basic principles of democracy”
Right-wing political commentator sows bitter NHS propaganda in an article in the Sun
A cantankerous column by Douglas Murray attempts to incite friction towards the NHS while pushing the blame of its problems onto the wrong hands.
Why new political parties aren’t the answer to our broken politics
‘The hope for reform isn’t new parties but a hung parliament in which the price of cooperation is electoral reform’
Tory MP Christian Wakeford defects to the Labour Party in first brick to fall from Johnson’s red wall
Wakeford had written a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
Was Partygate to blame for the scale of the Government’s Police Bill defeat in the Lords?
The scale of the Government’s defeat in the Lords over amendments to the Police and Crime Bill is important.
Keir Starmer offers ‘contract with British people’ based on ‘security, prosperity and respect’
Starmer said it was not unpatriotic to point out the country’s flaws
Labour hints it could hold back in Lib Dem-facing constituencies to deny the Tories a majority
‘I will focus my party on those target seats, on the places where we can win and we know we have to win.’