In a neck and neck race, it could make the difference.

🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for The Telegraph

📈16pt Labour lead

🌹Lab 43 (=)
🌳Con 27 (+2)
➡️Reform 10 (+1)
🔶LD 9 (-1)
🌍Green 4 (=)
🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
⬜️Other 4 (=)

2,332 UK adults, 19-21 April

(chg 12-14 April)

Extraordinary development in the Tees Valley mayoral election race tonight

Boro chairman Steve Gibson has come out and endorsed Labour's Chris McEwan and launched a scathing attack on Ben Houchen and Teesworks

✍️ Exclusive Chris Lloyd

thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24274083.…

'Congratulations, you've got the Tory candidate to perform a U-turn live on-air.'

Tom Swarbrick is bemused by Susan Hall's assertion that she has backed free school meals 'all along', despite saying last week that 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'.

London Assembly election is a weird one. if Reform's polling is 'real', they should expect to win a seat. Lib Dems have a chance of picking up an extra constituency seat... only to (probably) pay for it from the list. What happens to the 12% who voted for minor parties last time?

Labour lead, Sunak eventually follows

Andrew Neil: 'I'm surprised how tolerant Ofcom has been of GBnews... I certainly would never have allowed politicians to interview other politicians from the same party... incredible... on these areas Ofcom needs to find a backbone... & quick.'

Bill is a former SNP councillor - but now he believes only Scottish Labour will deliver the change Scotland needs.

The whole absurdity of the Rwanda scheme, in 60 seconds, from Sky News' Tom Cheshire.

A performative, reputation-trashing drop in the ocean, at the cost of £660,000 per removee.

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That Nice Mr Tice party says ‘let them drown’.

'This is an extortionately expensive scheme, costing nearly £2 million per asylum seeker to cover just 1% of asylum seekers...

'This is not a serious plan to tackle the dangerous boat crossings'

Labour's Yvette Cooper hits out at Sunak's Rwanda Bill

itv.com/news/2024-04-2…

Lee Anderson MP Hi Lee, after you raised the question, I’ve double checked and Keir’s office emailed you on 7th April to let you know that we would both be visiting your constituency.

On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish everyone a happy St George’s Day.

Let us be proud of our national identity, confident on the world stage, and sure of our country’s future.

This is a good read on the electoral battle to be Mayor of the North East, and includes this gem from Kim McGuinness “People need to know that there is more to the North than Manchester”

“It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity, whether at home or abroad, which impels people to work for a better world, to become, as in our case, democratic socialists.”

Rt. Hon. John Smith MP giving the R. H. Tawney Lecture (1993),

He’s a class act that Vernon Coaker

Since the Rwanda policy was first announced under Boris Johnson in April 2022 the Conservatives have slumped from a +3 lead on the issue over Labour to 7 point deficit and from -56 to -76 on net handling of the issue. (Data via YouGov)

You can also sign up for a night reflecting on 30 years since death of John Smith at Mile End Institute

And keep your eyes peeled for our special John Smith retrospective this May with some top speeches selected by David Ward 👀

Watched the SDP London Mayoral Party Election Broadcast and had to keep (mentally) reminding myself this not the same party as the SDP founded by the “Gang of Four'

EXCLUSIVE I Sir Keir Starmer (Keir Starmer) has thrown his weight behind reforming the offside rule in the wake of a controversial weekend for football’s video assistant referee

A thread 🧵

metro.co.uk/2024/04/22/kei…