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Express Politics30 Apr 2026

REVEALED: Exactly how Angela Rayner could bring down Starmer - but she has to do it now

Angela Rayner faces the ultimate political gamble: launch a leadership challenge now or risk being sidelined by rising rivals as Labour's polling numbers tank

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The Guardian Politics30 Apr 2026

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostly, we don’t. A plutocrat delivers a sack of cash to a political party. A few weeks later, it announces a policy that happens to favour the donor’s business. Are the events linked? We might suspect it; we cannot prove it. But the suspicion itself is corrosive and demoralising. The cur

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The Guardian Politics30 Apr 2026

Chaos within Labour has paused for now, but after the May elections the leadership contest begins in earnest | Morgan Jones

A different kind of stasis waits after the polls: a candidate gridlock where all Starmer’s potential successors are problematic in their own way Westminster politics is currently consumed by the fact that the May elections are next week. On Tuesday night Labour MPs voted down a Tory proposal that would have seen the prime minister referred to the privileges committee over his handling of the Mandelson scandal. Just 15 Labour MPs – mostly long-term critics of the PM – voted for the Tory motion; 5

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BBC Politics30 Apr 2026

We would end Birmingham bin strikes, says Tory leader

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch spoke to BBC Radio WM ahead of the local elections on 7 May.

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Guido Fawkes30 Apr 2026

Bursting the Bubble: One Week to Go…

Welcome to Bursting the Bubble, the data deep-dive that tells you what’s really happening outside the Westminster village. Exclusively for Guido members… Just seven days to go until the locals. Where do all the parties stand? Become a member to find out. Click here to join…

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BBC Politics30 Apr 2026

'Vote Plaid Cymru' gaffe from Welsh Labour leader

Eluned Morgan accidentally told Labour members to "vote Plaid Cymru" at an event ahead of the election.

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Express Politics30 Apr 2026

Angela Rayner gets 'absolutely obliterated' and crashes into Parliament door on night out

According to witnesses, Angela Rayner had been socialising for several hours on Monday evening.

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The Guardian Politics30 Apr 2026

Labour calls on Jenrick to give £37,500 campaign donation to charity amid electoral law investigation

Electoral Commission is investigating claims money given to MP came from US businessman now convicted of wire fraud UK politics live – latest updates Labour has called on Robert Jenrick to give up almost £40,000 donated to his campaign to be Conservative leader in 2024 following allegations that the sum came from an impermissible foreign donor now convicted of fraud. The party called for Jenrick to make a donation to charity after the Guardian revealed the Electoral Commission has been investi

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Conservative Home30 Apr 2026

Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet

Baldwin’s actions directly disprove the notion that a substantial reformatting of ideas or policies must occur on a timeline approaching years. Just because the next election is remote, albeit nearly two years have elapsed already, should not engender a relative passivity nor timidity around key decisions. The post Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics30 Apr 2026

Labour annihilation as Keir Starmer expected to lose nearly 2,000 Councillors

Damning new polling lays bare the massacre awaiting the Labour Party at next week's local elections.

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The Guardian Politics30 Apr 2026

Could Lib Dems become the biggest party in English local government?

With voter loyalty a distant memory, the Lib Dems’ cost of living policies and criticism of Trump could gain them ground It has been an election buildup dominated by the rise of Reform UK and the Greens, and the contrasting woes of Labour and the Tories. But there is a chance that on 8 May the Liberal Democrats, largely ignored in recent weeks, could wake up as the biggest party in English local government. This is just one of several paradoxes for the party’s leader, Ed Davey, and his team. T

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Guido Fawkes30 Apr 2026

Burnham: Labour Should Take “a Different Course” After Local Elections

Andy Burnham speaking to Bloomberg: The local elections will be “challenging“: “It’s got to be a moment of reflection… I understand the real frustration people have got with politics and politicians. I honestly, I really understand that. And they’re right to say politics just hasn’t been working.” Doesn’t rule out standing for Parliament again: “The…

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