The race in London wasn’t close. It was Sadiq Khan’s most convincing result of the three he’s won with an 11% lead over Susan Hall. That should not really be a surprise. There were some crazy hares running around yesterday!

Watch the full episode of The Political Fourcast here: youtu.be/MAvPR-0IGhQ

“Rishi Sunak is an optimist who thinks time is his friend.”

The Spectator editor Fraser Nelson says he thinks the general election will be in November.

Labour’s Baroness Smith asks if there’ll be so many by-elections by then it will have happened by default.

Here Gary explains why the projections of Labour’s national vote share from the local elections are lower than the general election opinion polls suggest. It is a bit nonsensical to talk about Labour being on course to fall short of a majority because these projections are based…

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Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride on the election results, why general and local elections are different and how he thinks voters are “grumpy” channel4.com/news/huge-diff…

'I think Rishi Sunak is safe. But all in all it's a bad set of results.'

Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng says it would be “ridiculous” to replace Rishi Sunak despite local election results.

Watch the full episode of the Political Fourcast here: youtu.be/MAvPR-0IGhQ

Local election results - what we know so far

New podcast episode! 🎧

This week, Pete and James Spender are joined by Channel 4 news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) to talk about his charity bike ride of the Duchenne Dash, AI and politics.

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#billnighy kindly read the last piece the murdered Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge wrote to be published in the event of his murder. Bill gave us his time for free to help promote our investigation. It's an amazing reading watch it here; youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

‘Pro-Palestine protests have sparked a nationwide movement’, says Columbia University professor
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Rather more than £3000!

'Peaceful protest, non-violent, can have a big effect in changing society, even if there's a certain element of civil disobedience.'

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, from Columbia University, says police arresting protesters across US campuses including his own is 'very upsetting'.

Pro Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in New York reached boiling point overnight as police clear protestors from campus buildings, arresting dozens.

Watch our latest Unreported World episode 'Campus Wars USA'.

Debate: Who will replace Humza Yousaf as Scottish first minister?
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Debate: Should there be an election in Scotland? Anas Sarwar and Douglas Ross : channel4.com/news/debate-sh… via Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Humza Yousaf quits as SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister.

“I’m being used to whitewash the story of empire and I’m not going for it.”

As he releases his memoir Track Record, George the Poet explains why he turned down an MBE and how the UK's political culture has moved 'in favour of the elites'.

1997 memories

Reform UK’s company-like structure has Nigel Farage right at the top as a director and majority shareholder, but he doesn’t consider himself a politician.

Writing about UK equities once more. on.ft.com/3UdWiE1