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'Keir Starmer: Up Close' - tonight on ITV 8.30pm with Anushka Asthana

EXC: Hearing that the Chancellor and Michael Gove have now agreed on a boost to the local government finance settlement and we could get the figure as early as today. The number I’m hearing is £500m which will be seen as a “modest” increase - but still… THREAD 1/

In Belfast yesterday Romilly Weeks, Mark Jervis and I spoke to people who have seen public services slide into ‘a death spiral’ in Northern Ireland during the Stormont stalemate. Watch our piece below 👇

NEW-127 councils across England are at risk of financial failure over the next 5 years with councils in the North of England facing almost double the risk - according to a new exclusive analysis from Grant Thornton. Comes as LGIU and Local Government Association (LGA) release warnings ahead of Budget 1/

Today we ITV News did the first on camera interview with Azhar Ali who has been keeping a low profile since allegations of anti-semitism had him kicked out of Labour. Voters at the Rochdale by-election today saw him listed as the Labour candidate when he is in fact Independent 🤯

Our ITV News report on polling day in Rochdale in what is a very weird by-election. With Iona Napier.

Here was what all Rochdale candidates were saying yesterday. Great piece by Harry Horton and Iona Napier Galloway was rightly confident about his chances. He thinks will start trend across country but James Johnson arguing today likely he will be swept away in gen election

A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales

Great to see my former colleague on The Olive Press Iona Napier making the front page of the Guardian yesterday (on the right). Brilliant journalist and a lovely person to boot! 😎

Only a few thousand miles to go... My morning run with @HardestGeezer, congrats on Project Africa hitting £1 million.

Rare in political interviews to see emotion like this, well done rachel younger

NEW: Nigel Farage had what appeared to be a milkshake poured over him as he left Clacton Wetherspoons

Veteran, "You're the saviour of the people" Zelenskyy, "No, you saved Europe" Vladimir Putin wasn't there Keir Starmer met Zlenskyy but Rishi Sunak had left

NEW: hearing the Labour manifesto has been unanimously agreed. A relatively slim doc that will rule out rises to VAT, National Insurance & Income tax. There aren't any additional taxes beyond three announced - VAT on private schools, a windfall tax and tax avoidance crackdown 1/

Great to be at the Park Gate Inn pub in Cannock with Iona Napier Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner, who could be the two most powerful women in the country soon if the polls are right, sat down for their first iv together. Watch full iv 👇 1/ itv.com/watch/news/lab…

What is it like covering an election for ITV News? In the Observer (where I covered my first election 19 years ago) I write about the madness- from trailing political leaders around the country to election night rehearsals with simulated exit polls 👇 theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Six weeks covering Keir Starmer on the campaign trail for ITV News ended with a mad dash from Wales to Scotland to the West Mids today. Grateful to have worked with such an amazing team. watch our Carl Dinnen piece from today here: itv.com/watch/news/fin…

Big hug from the man who wished to be PM for the man who will be PM. Starmer heads straight to Neil Kinnock after victory speech.

Starmer surrounded by journalists on his way to Washington DC for the NATO Summit. 📸 Stefan Rousseau

Tulip Siddiq refuses to answer questions about her resignation She quit as a Treasury Minister earlier this evening after pressure around her connections to the deposed Bangladeshi regime