10 h. ago Was Angela Rayner right to resign over stamp duty tax row? Vote in our poll

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned from government after the PM’s ethics adviser concluded that she had breached the ministerial code - and we've asked Mirror readers to have their say on the decision

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42 h. ago Jamaica election results: Andrew Holness leads Labour party to third term

Incumbent prime minister says country on right trajectory, as opposition leader concedes defeat Jamaicans have voted to give Andrew Holness and the Jamaica Labour party (JLP) a third consecutive term in government after a nail-biting race with the opposition People’s National party (PNP).Holness beat PNP’s Mark Golding after polls in the final days of the intense campaign projected a narrow lead for the PNP. Of the 63 seats being contested, preliminary results showed the JLP winning 34 seats and the PNP 29. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Republicans are trying to ensure we’ll never have another fair election | Judith Levine

From an executive order and redistricting to seeking to kill mail-in ballots, the party is conducting an all-out assault on voting rights“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in July 2024. “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”Since his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020, Trump has been building toward delivery on that promise, first by fomenting suspicion of widespread election fraud, then by trying to overturn the results via legal challenge and intimidation, and finally, on 6 January 2021, by force. Now the White House and Republicans both in Washington and the states are colluding more brazenly than ever to “fix it” – “it” meaning free and fair elections they might lose.Judith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Two decades of leftwing dominance end in Bolivia as rightwingers head to election runoff

Movimiento al Socialismo’s time runs out as economic crisis grips countryBolivia’s presidential election will go to a runoff for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).The candidate with the most votes, however, turned out to be a surprise: centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 57, who had started the campaign with just 3% support in opinion polls. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Bolivia presidential election: preliminary results put two rightwing candidates in run

First-round result marks the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo as economic crisis grips the countryBolivia’s presidential election will go to a run-off for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).The candidate with the most votes, however, turned out to be a surprise: centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 57, who had started the campaign with just 3% support in opinion polls. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pete Hegseth does believe in a woman’s right to vote, Pentagon says after video controversy

Defense secretary raises eyebrows by posting clip of evangelical pastor advocating for repeal of 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted suffrage in 1920

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last month Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, our voices are being eroded | Al Sharpton

The 1965 law, a rare and profound act of consensus, has been hollowed out. We cannot forget the power Dr King saw in the right to voteIn a moment when we should be celebrating one of the most important pieces of legislation in American history, we are in fact at a worse place as a nation than when it was passed. Those of us fighting to protect the right to vote find ourselves against a movement that doesn’t want to take us back to 1965. They want to create an America that more closely resembles the one of 1865.Sixty years ago, in a rare and profound act of consensus, Congress passed a law to end the centuries-old rigging of American democracy. Yet today the system is as rigged as ever, with the battered Voting Rights Act on life support.Rev Al Sharpton is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and radio talkshow host Continue reading...

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