63 m. ago Badenoch apologises for local election results as Reform warned there are ‘no simple answers’ – UK politics live

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Headteachers are taking legal action against Ofsted, England’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders.The National Association of Head Teachers said it had lodged a claim for a judicial review against Ofsted “over the potential impact of their inspection proposals” and for inadequate consultation over its new system of grading schools.Somehow the focus on school leader mental health and wellbeing has got lost along the way during Ofsted’s consultation process.We must not forget that the catalyst for these changes was the tragic death of Ruth Perry and widespread acceptance that the inspection regime was placing school leaders under intolerable pressure. However, there appears to have been very little thought g...

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1 hour ago Are you worried about the rise of Reform? Take our poll and have your say

Reform UK has stunned us all with more than 600 local election wins, flipping Tory strongholds and claiming its fifth MP. With a booming Gen-Z following and rising poll numbers, the insurgent party is now threatening to upend two-party politics for good. Are you worried?

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1 hour ago Local election results live: Badenoch sorry for Tory ‘bloodbath’ as Farage gloats Conservatives are finished

Reform takes control of 10 councils, snatches dramatic victory in Runcorn by-election and wins two mayoral contests

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2 h. ago ‘No simple answers’ for Reform after local election success, senior Tory warns – UK politics live

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Labour MP Rachael Maskell has urged her party to scrap winter fuel and welfare policies that she said are pushing voters away, reports the PA news agency.The York Central MP told BBC Breakfast that Labour has “special responsibilities” to serve the needs of people.We’re not any other political party, we were created to serve the needs of people across working areas of our country so that people had a real voice of the kind of change that they wanted to see.I think it’s now time, if Labour are going to go further faster, to pick up that voice, to put our fingers on the pulse and to understand that that responsibility that the 1945 government set out putting that safety net in place at the welfare state is on our watch and is our responsibility.People went cold last winter and that’s not what a Labour government s...

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2 h. ago Revealed: The common words that used to have VERY different meanings

As England has changed over the centuries, so has the meaning of many English words. MailOnline has scoured the historical records and dictionaries to find over 40 that once had very different definitions.

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2 h. ago Zhao Xintong makes Ronnie O'Sullivan thoughts clear with fresh comment after Crucible win

Zhao Xintong has stormed into his first World Snooker Championship final after thrashing Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last four - and he immediately showed his respect for the beaten Rocket

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3 h. ago Britain's most popular nutritionist EMILY ENGLISH on why Ozempic is like sticking a plaster over a wound that needs stitches

Her straight-talking 'eat normally' ethos has made her Britain's most popular social media nutritionist.

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4 h. ago Poker Face: Natasha Lyonne’s seriously funny whydunnit caper is back with a cracking A

Cynthia Erivo plays sextuplets! Katie Holmes is an undertaker! And Kumail Nunjiani is the new Tiger King! The super cool, celebrity-packed show is even wilder than everThe best thing about Poker Face is that it doesn’t bother trying to shore up what it knows is a flimsy premise. Fans of the first season will recall that Charlie Cale, Natasha Lyonne’s wisecracking 70s detective homage, has an in-built ability to detect a lie as soon as someone tells it. Instead of trying to explain this gift away as the result of a gamma storm or spider bite or covert government experiment, it now accepts that, yeah, she has a “freaky little lie detector trick”, that’s the extent of the idea, got a problem with that? These days, Charlie waves away any queries about it with an “Eh”, a shrug and a cheeky nudge of the baseball cap and aviator shades.After using her talent to work her way through a series of increasingly preposterous case-of-the-week murders last time, then ending up with the mafia putti...

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6 h. ago Beware of Reform and false promises as Farage celebrates election victories

Record View says any suggestion Farage is a friend of the working class is pure codswallop.

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6 h. ago Council offer woman forced out of home over unsafe building room in drugs death hotel

Wendy Murray was forced from her home by the council due to an adjoining building being deemed dangerous - and was told to move into a hotel where nine drug users died.

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7 h. ago Traditional UK seaside town has golden sands and 'quintessential' fish and chips

It's the perfect place to spend a sunny afternoon with its blue flag beach, promenade, arcades, amusement park and traditional English fish and chips

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7 h. ago London police chief and city council member tender resignations

London police chief and city council member tender resignations  Lexington Herald Leader

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9 h. ago Downing Street ramps up efforts to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels after Reform surge in local elections

Senior Labour politicians believe the approach is having a negative effect on the government's popularity and is playing directly into Nigel Farage's hands.

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10 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: The humiliation of Labour and the Tories has been on the cards for years. You can only defy the British people for so long before paying a terrible price

The humiliation of the Labour and Conservative parties in Thursday's elections has been on the cards. You can only defy the wishes of the British people for so long.

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10 h. ago Reform revolution that could change Britain: Labour in shock, Tories lose every council they defended

In a stunning breakthrough, Reform seized control of a string of major councils across the country.

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11 h. ago Farage pledges to ban WFH and slash wasteful spending in new Reform

Farage promised radical changes including slashing spending on consultancy, reducing council 'overreach' into issues such as diversity initiatives, and imposing a 'change of culture' on staff.

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11 h. ago Fight starts TODAY for Tories to win back trust: Bloodbath at polls but top Conservatives rally round leader as she vows to reverse party fortunes

An electoral bloodbath led to the Conservatives being wiped out across swathes of local authorities, losing more than 550 councillors and control of 14 councils.

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11 h. ago Main party leaders under pressure as Reform sweeps to victory in local elections

Reform picked up 10 councils and more than 600 seats in an election that Nigel Farage hailed as ‘the death of the Conservative Party’.

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12 h. ago Tory wipeout as Conservatives lose every single council and Labour is decimated... while Nigel Farage's Reform bags local election landslide

The Conservative Party has lost every council it was defending in the elections after it found itself squeezed between Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.

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12 h. ago They shouted 'Up Hamas' on stage, called for Tory MPs to be killed and championed the IRA

The band has been accused of using IRA paraphernalia to make violent republicanism appear cool to a generation lucky enough to be born after the horrific slaughter of the Troubles.

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