Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party
Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapseUK politics live – latest updatesBy Friday night, Keir Starmer and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions.For more than 100 years, Welsh Labour was the democratic world’s most succes...
Chris Packham calls for Government to ban ‘sociopathic’ trail hunting
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London Labour MPs call for Keir Starmer to quit to 'save Britain from Nigel Farage' after elections nightmare
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Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to isolate in UK’s Covid-quarantine hospital
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Tess Daly and Vernon Kay split - all the warning signs marriage was on rocks before their shock statement
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Alan Carr says he does not love Strictly Come Dancing enough to host the show
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Prospect of three nationalist FMs shows UK has ‘fundamentally’ changed – Swinney
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Portugal and Italy to continue new EU border checks 'causing travel havoc for Britons'
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Swinney: My family deeply unsettled by anti-immigration protest in constituency
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Danish rightwing leader asked to form government after Frederiksen fails to form coalition
Denmark king asks Troeld Lund Poulsen to form government after PM struggles to gather supportThe king of Denmark has asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after a month-long effort by the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has failed to put together a ruling coalition.The announcement on Friday night shook the political establishment as Frederiksen has been a staple of Danish politics for decades. Her left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, won the plurality of votes...
Charli XCX releases B-side to her latest single
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Bid to reassure ‘worried’ Tenerife residents over arrival of hantavirus-hit ship
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Reform not on the hunt for defectors to overtake Labour, says Offord
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Rise of Reform ‘deeply concerning’, Scottish Tories say
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I convinced Andrew Hastie to get into politics. The REAL story of how he went from future Liberal leader to a man with MANY enemies goes deeper than his feud with Ben Roberts-Smith: PVO
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John Swinney wants Scottish Parliament to be ‘fully Farage-proofed’ by 2029
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Having cancer ‘feels like a lifetime ago now’, Sarah Beeny says
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Plaid Cymru will seek to form minority Welsh government, leader says
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Royal Navy warship heads to Middle East for potential Strait of Hormuz mission
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An expert on Iranian politics reviews the status of negotiations to end the war on Iran
Middle East An expert on Iranian politics reviews the status of negotiations to end the war on Iran May 9, 20267:43 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Elissa Nadworny An expert on Iranian politics reviews the status of negotiations to end the war on Iran Audio will be available later today.