Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’

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🚨 Tory MP Ben Bradley is trying to distance himself from the 'clearly not brilliant' national party in his bid to become East Midlands Mayor

Read my interview with Bradley on PoliticsHome 👇
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📣 Keir Starmer’s right-hand woman Sue Gray caused a stir with her public support of citizens’ assemblies.

Sophie Church and Sienna Rodgers explore why a Labour government might champion deliberative democracy

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Parents of children who miss school can face criminal prosecution under the single justice procedure

Fast-track process means they can be found guilty in a private ruling with a single judge present in the room

Andrew Kersley for The House magazine reports 👇
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NEW: Interview with independent mayor Jamie Driscoll

🗳️ Predicts win on 2 May
🥀 Says Labour members are breaking rules to support him
🐝 Burnham wd make “excellent PM”
🪧Policies – salary sacrifice for public transport, land value capture & more

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“This is going to be really interesting. I think there’s going to be a big upset”

Sienna Rodgers interviews Jamie Driscoll, the independent North of Tyne mayor who eyes a bigger prize – the new North East mayoralty

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Canadian man chooses to die by euthanasia because the hospital cannot get a special mattress, leaving him with horrific bedsores. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

🪖 “What if Labour went bold and said: ‘We’re going to commit to three per cent of GDP on defence spend’?”

Sienna Rodgers looks at Labour’s plans for the Ministry of Defence and the problems that may await John Healey as defence secretary:

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Keir has come out for 2.5%. Labour has been criticising govt for 2.5 ambition on basis there’s no clear plan for meeting it & no timeline. Now Labour has done the same.

As I reported last mnth there’s been internal pressure to go bigger on defence spend👉 politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

NEW: William Wragg voluntarily resigns 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.”

Why is Instagram so mean and TikTok so nice? It’s counterintuitive but, it seems to me, very true

On my reservations on assisted dying, including fact women most at risk of wrongful death, & why politicians must acknowledge the moral complexities

When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk? | Sonia Sodha theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“I overworked myself. I actually ended up at A&E at three in the morning”

I spoke to four MPs about their experiences of being diagnosed with cancer while serving constituents 👇

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'There’s this thing about not showing weakness as a parliamentarian... If you so much as cough, someone wants your seat'

Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙, Barry Sheerman MP, Chloe Smith
and Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 share their stories of being diagnosed with cancer while serving as MPs: politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…