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The TelegraphSuella Braverman’s Tory leadership campaign dealt blow as key ally abandons her
Suella Braverman’s prospective Conservative leadership campaign has been dealt a blow after a key ally abandoned her.
- The Telegraph
Why the Muslim Vote campaign is a glimpse into a horrifying future
When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.
- The Telegraph
Get ready to pay per mile under Labour
Many commentators have been using adjectives like devastating and seismic to describe the significance of the election result.
- Manchester Evening News
Home of Labour MP 'attacked with sledgehammer' days after landslide election win
'I will not be cowed'
- The Telegraph
Every Tory MP is to blame for this defeat – myself included
Who’s to blame? All of us – every Conservative MP in the last Parliament – has a share of the blame for this defeat. For my part, I made life harder for my Party by calling publicly for tougher policy on migration and defence, and so made negative headlines about Tory splits and factions.
- PA Media: UK News
Labour Government could be in trouble pretty quickly, claims Nigel Farage
The Reform UK leader who is also the new MP for Clacton, watched East Thurrock Community Football Club in Corringham on Saturday.
- The Telegraph
Will the Starmers be the first prime ministerial family since the Wilsons not to live in Downing Street?
The move to Downing Street is a symbolic moment for any incoming prime minister, the most obvious proof of your drastically changed situation. You do not merely run the shop, as Mrs Thatcher said, you live above it. Downing Street is one of the most prestigious political residences on Earth, perhaps second only to the White House. For five years, barring calamity, it is yours, for you to decorate with all the golden Lulu Lytle wallpaper you like.
- HuffPost UK
Putin's Foreign Minister Had Quite The Bizarre Take On Labour's Landslide Victory
A bit of head-scratcher, this one.
- Manchester Evening News
Every plan Labour has for Universal Credit, PIP, State Pension and cost of living
Here is everything the Labour Party has committed to improve employment and living costs in its party manifesto
- The Telegraph
SNP hits out at Sturgeon’s political punditry on ITV as ‘pontification’
Nicola Sturgeon is facing an SNP backlash for “pontificating” on her party’s election disaster during a lucrative TV appearance.
- The Guardian
Labour candidate defeated by Farage reveals safety fears during campaign
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul tells of vitriol from Reform supporters and says he was concerned for safety of those around him
- The Telegraph
Defeated Tory candidate considering legal action over postal vote ‘delays’
A Tory candidate who was defeated by just 15 votes is considering taking legal action over alleged postal vote chaos in his constituency.
- The Telegraph
British Jews have reason to be frightened. This time it’s not Labour
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
- Yahoo News UK
How many seats did Reform UK win - and why they don't match its vote share?
If Reform UK is more popular than the Lib Dems, why did it win so few seats by comparison?
- The Telegraph
Starmer’s great weakness is being revealed
Keir Starmer campaigned as changed Labour, and now he will govern as New Labour. It’s not difficult to imagine the consternation felt by Starmer’s critics on the Left at the news that some of the big beasts from the eras of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are making a comeback. Most significant is the return of Alan Milburn, Blair’s health secretary, who will advise his successor, Wes Streeting, on reform of the NHS.
- The Independent
Home secretary launches new border security squad after scrapping Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan
Yvette Cooper said the new body, set to include MI5, would tackle the root cause of the small boats crisis ‘going after these dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice’
- The Telegraph
Forget the manifesto, the double death tax is coming
The rush to effect “change” in the next 100 days will become irresistible and the need to tear up the Labour manifesto to justify painful taxes on pensions, savings and “wealth” held in assets will play out.
- The Telegraph
Iranian warship capsizes in Gulf port ‘accident’
An Iranian warship capsized while undergoing port repairs, killing two officers and injuring several others.
- Sky News
This result might be the biggest surprise in the history of French elections
France will not have a far-right government, but that answer, that single fact, does not cover another crucial point. The biggest, but well short of an absolute majority, will be a left-wing coalition, called the New Popular Front. The centrist group, coalesced behind President Emmanuel Macron, has defied all predictions to come second.
- Somerset County Gazette
Unseated Yeovil MP slams ‘dead’ Conservative Party as he quits
Former Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh, who held the seat from 2015 to 2024, has taken aim at the Conservatives as he leaves the party.