All news on the topic: Local elections
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Labour tensions explode as Rayner prepares challenge if cleared by tax probe
Allies of Angela Rayner are said to be becoming increasingly confident that an HMRC probe into her tax affairs will be resolved before the May local elections, seen by many as the moment where Sir Keir Starmer is most likely to be ousted.
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Tax-threatened design firm with unpaid debts donated £200,000 to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Authorities threatened to close down Interior Architecture Landscape due to unpaid taxes. The design firm still managed to make a major donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The firm said the donations complied with U.K. electoral law.
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Mafia state pushes Bulgarian democracy to the brink
Former PM Boyko Borissov and sanctioned media mogul Delyan Peevski are in the driving seat ahead of an election on June 9.
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Delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack to run in local elections
Former Deliveroo rider Caio Benicio will champion public safety and rights for gig economy workers
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Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?
After PM’s bold reading of disastrous Tory local election results, we assess the variables in play at national level
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Boris Johnson confesses to using unusual item as voter ID despite PM rule introduction
Under rules introduced when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister, voters now need to prove who they are by using photo ID such as a passport, driving licence or blue badge
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Conservatives crushed by ’worst local election result’ in years
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’
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Landslide victory: Labour’s Claire Ward becomes first mayor of East Midlands
Former MP beats Conservatives’ Ben Bradley in region encompassing several former ‘red wall’ seats
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Keir Starmer’s message to Rishi Sunak: ’Step aside’ as Labour delivers a blow to the Tories in local elections
Labour leader Keir Starmer said voters are crying out for a general election as he toasted victories across England and Wales that put him on course to snatch keys of No10
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Labour claims early wins and steals Blackpool by-election in showdown with Tories
Labour has claimed some early victories in the local elections after winning back seats from the Tories across the country.
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Call for crack UK-US unit to thwart Russian meddling in Western elections
Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey will outline plans for the Democratic Resilience Centre when he addresses a Washington think tank during a week-long trip to the States
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Fresh fears over voter ID for crunch general election as experts warn of 'risk'
Two reports by the Electoral Commission and theLocal Government Information Unit warn of the added pressure on polling station staff because of voter identification rules
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Dis Life Democracy Special: 'Voter ID is major barrier for some Disabled people'
If we did happen to have voter ID, things still didn’t go to plan with access at polling stations. Many older and Disabled people were turned away
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'Humiliated' youngsters with ID stopped from casting ballots in Tory crackdown
Some young voters were stopped from taking part in last week's local elections because their proof-of-age cards were not accepted, it is claimed
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Desperate Tories blame Vladimir Putin for Rishi Sunak's election walloping
Cabinet minister Lucy Frazer claimed the PM is "starting to gain the trust of the British public" despite losing more than 1,000 council seats across England in Thursday's local elections
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Deluded minister confronted with Tory anger over election drubbing in TV clash
Lucy Frazer was shown clips of furious Tory councillors saying the Government has 'let people down', but brazenly claimed things picked up for the party during a bruising campaign for Rishi Sunak
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Labour 'on course' as battered Tories lose 1,000 seats in local elections
In a crushing blow to Rishi Sunak's Tories, the party lost more than 1,000 council seats across England during this week's local elections in his first electoral test as Prime Minister
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Nurse 'stopped from voting' as Tories told to scrap photo ID rules
Voter ID rules introduced by the Tories meant thousands were turned away at polling stations. Officials in Maidstone in Kent said 137 people arrived without acceptable photo ID
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Desperate Tories plot Boris Johnson comeback after local elections drubbing
Conservatives who support the former Prime Minister said a political resurrection should not be ruled out - as Boris Johnson tweeted about Buddha
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'Local elections show Keir Starmer and Labour rattling on Downing Street gates'
'The cost of living crisis, economic incompetence and an ailing NHS in a Broken Britain where nothing seems to work are narrowing any Tory survival path,' writes Kevin Maguire
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Voters leave in tears as Brits without ID turned away in local elections chaos
Voters said they'd seen elderly people turned away for not having the right ID with new rules requiring people to show a valid form of photo ID coming into force for the first time
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All the key battles and result times in today's local elections in England
The 230 councils being contested in the local elections were last up for grabs in the dying days of Theresa May's premiership in 2019, when the Tories suffered major losses at the ballot box
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Keir Starmer urges Mirror readers to vote Labour today to build 'better Britain'
The Labour leader blasts the Conservatives’ failure to tackle the cost of living crisis, make the streets safe and ensure that people can book a GP appointment
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Young people want elections over a week and option to vote online, MP says
Kim Leadbeater criticised the Government for not doing enough to engage youngsters in politics ahead of tomorrow's local elections and said the introduction of Voter ID was 'extremely worrying' as it risked being an extra barrier
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Woman, 93, will miss election for first time in her life because of voter ID
Oonagh Preece first went to a polling station in 1950 and has voted in every local and general election since. But the requirement for photo ID at polling stations now excludes her from democracy
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