Friday’s The Guardian front page: Labour warned over loss of urban seats in election theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Labour risks losing in a number of its target seats as previously loyal progressive voters turn away from the party Kiran Stacey reports
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EXCL: Rishi Sunak’s government clashed with George Osborne over attempt to interfere in appointment of new director of the British Museum - David Batty
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We asked whether people thought that Michelle Donnelan should resign when the figure was £15,000 and 66% of the public thought that she should - including 64% of Conservative 2019 voters.

NHS England waiting list figures fall slightly for 5th month in row but remain near record high

7.54m treatments on list end Feb (6.29m patients), down fr 7.58m end Jan

List hit record high Sept 2023 with 7.77m treatments & 6.50m patients cf 2010 figure of approx 2.5m patients

EXC: Harold Wilson had an affair with a Downing Street aide, his closest surviving advisers have revealed after half a century of silence

Joe Haines & Bernard Donoughue say they want to commit the Labour PM’s affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies to history

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Wednesday’s The Guardian front page: Thousands of children unsure of gender identity ‘let down by NHS’

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William Wragg resigns Tory whip after divulging MPs’ phone numbers - full story by Eleni Courea
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NEW: William Wragg has resigned the Tory whip

Whips spox: “Following Will Wragg’s decision to step back from his roles on the Public Accounts and 1922 committees, he has also notified the chief whip that he is voluntarily relinquishing the Conservative whip”