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Express Politics6 May 2026

Zack Polanski's popularity slumps after Golders Green Police row

New poll shows the Green Party leader's ratings have dropped in the last week.

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Express Politics6 May 2026

Zack Polanski bombshell as 2 false claims made by Green Party leader exposed

The revelations raise questions about the accuracy of claims Mr Polanski made to potential supporters.

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Conservative Home6 May 2026

Honestly, what’s it all for? Do we really understand what local government is about?

Few people outside politics know who their councillor is and yet up and down the country there are people who stand to serve, to deliver, what are really important but dull day to day operations, and they do so for little reward. When choosing them we should at least think what it is they do. The post Honestly, what’s it all for? Do we really understand what local government is about? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics6 May 2026

Apps, activists and an ‘air war’: Essex campaign is test of Reform UK’s professionalisation

Nigel Farage’s party sees local elections as showcase for a sleeker approach borrowing from an unlikely source Nigel Farage was midway through his walkabout of Waltham Abbey when a hunting horn loudly sounded on the Essex market town’s pedestrianised high street. “Oi oiii!” exclaimed the owner of Ouch Tattoos, Rob Chillingworth, putting down the instrument and reaching out a welcoming hand to the approaching Reform UK leader. For Farage, this was the latest stop in a midweek tour of half a dozen

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Conservative Home6 May 2026

John Redwood: Don’t wince – we need to be talking about Europe again

More than half our imports come from the EU. To get economic growth we would achieve more if we concentrated on import reduction from Europe including the EU by making and growing more at home. Let's start with oil, gas and electricity, and move onto backing our farms and market gardens to grow more of what we need to cut the food miles. The post John Redwood: Don’t wince – we need to be talking about Europe again appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics6 May 2026

UK's youngest councillor issues scathing attack on Starmer's Labour - 'Days are numbered'

Ahead of the local elections, Britain's youngest council leader tells RICHARD ASHMORE why Labour is doomed and how he survived a vote of no confidence.

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Conservative Home6 May 2026

Miriam Cates: Boris Johnson is very clever and very wrong

As a classicist Boris Johnson must be familiar with the fall of the Roman Empire, which was brought about in part by collapsing fertility rates. Yet he fails to recognise a parallel impending catastrophe of our own times. In fact, Johnson says that falling populations are a “blessing” and a “ray of hope”, because of the “crippling burden” human beings place on nature. But are people not part of the natural world? The post Miriam Cates: Boris Johnson is very clever and very wrong appeared first o

Conservative Home6 May 2026

Kashmir Purewal: Why work experience should be part of our children’s education

Adolescence is precisely the moment when aspiration needs anchoring. The goal is not central micromanagement but partnership: schools setting expectations, employers contributing experience, and the state limiting itself to framework and safeguard. The post Kashmir Purewal: Why work experience should be part of our children’s education appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics6 May 2026

EU trade deal could force UK to restrict use of weedkiller linked to cancer

Glyphosate is currently sprayed on cereal and pulse crops to dessicate them and make them easier to harvest A new trade deal with the EU could lead to restrictions on the use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on UK food crops. The full-spectrum herbicide, which kills almost every plant it touches, is often sprayed on wheat, oats and other cereal and pulse crops immediately before harvest to desiccate them and make them easier to handle. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics6 May 2026

May elections: What’s at stake across England, Wales and Scotland?

Will Reform take Sunderland, or the Greens take Hackney? Can Plaid Cymru take a historic victory in Wales, and will Labour be forced into third place in Scotland? We examine the possible outcomes for election night The Scottish, Welsh, and local English elections on Thursday 7 May are a huge test for all the main political parties – and may be existential for Keir Starmer as prime minister and Labour leader. The elections, two years into a Labour government, will see more than 30 million people

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The Guardian Politics6 May 2026

Labour’s nationwide collapse risks making Nigel Farage the face of the UK’s fragile union | Rafael Behr

Scottish and Welsh nationalism will be further radicalised if Reform UK sets the tone of debate over inclusion in the British state Keir Starmer has neither a heartland nor a stronghold. That is the picture likely to emerge once all the votes in this week’s local and devolved elections have been counted. Council seats in Labour’s traditional northern-English working-class base will fall to Reform UK. Parts of inner London, where the electoral map has been red for decades, will go Green. Rafael B

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