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Sky News Politics15 May 2026

Andy Burnham gets green light to run for selection in by-election

Andy Burnham has been cleared to run for selection in the Makerfield by-election following days of speculation that he will challenge Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.

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Sky News Politics14 May 2026

Key issue Greens plan to seize on - as they warn Andy Burnham 'won't walk' by-election

The Green Party hope they can use a by-election to pressure Andy Burnham into committing to electoral reform if he becomes Labour leader in the future.

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Sky News Politics11 May 2026

Cut employee national insurance to win back voters, Labour report says

Radical economic reforms such as cutting national insurance and overhauling capital gains tax are Labour's only ways of winning back voters they have lost to Reform and the Greens, a report will warn.

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Sky News Politics29 Apr 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/video/kemi-badenoch-defends-record-as-tory-leader-and-says-golders-green-attack-is-a-national-emergency-13538163'>Era of two-party politics 'has gone', Badenoch tells Cathy Newman</a>

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Sky News Politics24 Apr 2026

Green ambitions, leaving NATO and apologising over breast hypnosis claim - Polanski's success brings more scrutiny

Zack Polanski is on walkabout in Manchester with Hannah Spencer, the Green's newest MP.

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Sky News Politics30 Mar 2026

EV charger firms say energy bill increases will be passed on to drivers

Electric vehicle charger firms have warned soaring energy bills will have to be passed on to drivers, risking a major setback for the government's green goals.

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Sky News Politics29 Mar 2026

Govt reviewing flagship EV sale quotas after biggest car production fall in 73 years

The government is reviewing its electric car sale quotas - one of its flagship green policies.

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Sky News Politics26 Mar 2026

Greens pile pressure on Miliband over decoupling electricity and gas prices

Green MPs have written to Ed Miliband demanding he set out plans to decouple electricity prices from gas, after Sky News revealed he was "looking into" the policy.

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Sky News Politics5 Mar 2026

John Prescott's son joins Greens

The son of Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott has joined the Green Party, Sky News can reveal.

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Sky News Politics4 Mar 2026

Scepticism over Starmer as Labour MPs meet to discuss threat from Greens

Labour chair Anna Turley has met MPs to discuss the threat from the Greens after their party's Gorton and Denton by-election drubbing.

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Sky News Politics2 Mar 2026

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll

The Green Party has leapfrogged Labour into second place in a sensational poll by YouGov for Sky News.

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Sky News Politics27 Feb 2026

Gorton and Denton by-election result proves Polanski surge is real and the Greens are a serious threat to Labour

At the wedding venue in Gorton and Denton the Green Party chose for the news conference to mark a seismic by-election victory on national television, it was clear that Zack Polanski and his team were new to all of this.

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