🔴Labour Faces New Challenge From the Left as Just Stop Oil-Linked Movement Throws Weight Behind Independent Candidates

The new ‘Assemble’ movement plans to back left-wing candidates running against Keir Starmer’s party Josiah Mortimer reveals

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Quite a lot of stability with his second term - Sadiq Khan keeps Seb Dance at transport and Tom Copley on housing (environment brief is TBA)

Most devastating email I've received this week: 'A little birdie told me that you’re into the audit reform and corporate governance scene'💀

More than 100 journalists, celebrities, politicians, academics etc have signed an open letter to LBC expressing their “deep concern” at the “sudden disappearance” of the presenter Sangita Myska from the station - good scoop from my colleague Adam Bienkov bylinetimes.com/2024/05/10/san…

look away now if you have zero interest in employment law, because this thread is going to compare and contrast - in minute detail - the 2021 Labour New Deal For Working People and the new, rewritten version which I got hold of yesterday.....

Lambeth comes forward with first new LTN post-mayoral election - this time removing through traffic from the streets, estates and schools around Kennington Oval. also removing about 90 on-street parking bays and replacing with public space moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDeta…

NEW: ‘Anti-Globalist’ Nigel Farage to Speak at ‘The World’s No1 Event for Global Citizens’ - Byline Times

The Brexiteer blames the Government for a supposed “brain drain” by bringing in rules about non-doms – campaigners blame him bylinetimes.com/2024/05/09/nig…

The Welsh Senedd has voted in favour of a new law to expand the parliament to 96 members and change the voting system to a more proportional closed list. Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth MS says the bill paves the way for a parliament “fit for the 21st century”

Tory election chief Isaac Levido told Con MPs that Susan Hall’s ability to outperform polling expectations was a 'sign that Westminster polling could prove wrong at the general election' Politico reports.

Welcome to cuckoo land. She still got trounced by a third-term candidate

SNP on Labour welcoming Natalie Elphicke's defection:

🔴 Bouncers at the Ballot Box: Security Turned Away Voters In What Campaigners say is 'Another Nail in the Coffin of Photo Voter ID' 

Three people of colour were turned away by a security guard at a Sheffield polling station - Byline Times
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I think the Elphicke defection might be a much bigger win for her than for Labour

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.

She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being 'attractive and attracted'…

These perjury claims are - or at least should be - a big deal

Also today: The Guardian reports that advisory firm Global Counsel 'founded by Labour peer Peter Mandelson, has lobbied for a campaign that critics say would stifle mass lawsuits such as that taken recently by subpostmasters' (via Politico)

Peter Mandleson has his own multimillion pound corporate lobbying firm which refuses to divulge its clients. When he speaks in public, we should remember to ask ourselves, which corporation is paying him today? That journalists fail to ask this is a disgrace on our trade.