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Labour is on track to lose Wales
The party has been in power in the Senedd since its creation in 1999
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Labour’s unlikely strategy for beating Farage
And what it reveals about Reform’s greatest weakness.
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Labour needs a hard reset
Until the government tells a consistent story about itself, it cannot expect voters to believe in it.
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Why Labour shouldn’t shift right
The answer to these bruising election results is to govern as the party of social democracy.
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Why it’s now Reform vs Labour
Farage dominates the right and Starmer faces no totemic threat to his left.
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The Tories are in danger of irrelevance
A fourth-place finish in the local elections has deepened the party’s existential crisis.
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How winter fuel cost Labour these elections
Cutting the benefit was seen as an attack on the vulnerable. The decision has hobbled this government for nine months.
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Will it be Reform’s night?
Our final forecast projects that Nigel Farage’s party will gain more than 300 seats.
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PMQs review: Badenoch’s record still haunts her
Ahead of the local elections, Keir Starmer has a lot to worry about. The Tory leader is not one of…
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The Lib Dems’ Middle England revolution
As Kemi Badenoch chases Reform, she is losing her party’s traditional heartlands.
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Does Labour have a “forgotten flank”?
Internal critics accuse the party of ignoring the Lib Dems and the Greens.
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Can Reform grow up?
After scandals and infighting, Nigel Farage’s party faces its first big test on 1 May, at England’s local elections.
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Inside the Chaotic Map of Doom
What can we glean from More in Common’s latest polling?
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Reform’s make-or-break elections
If the party cannot translate momentum into council seats, it risks being another noisy but inconsequential endeavour.
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Nigel Farage’s mutinous army
Reform’s local election rally in Birmingham was soured by pessimism – and rumblings of internal dissent.
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The reluctant politician
A year ago, our writer stood for local election – and won by a landslide. But there was a catch:…
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Fifty years on the campaign trail
What I’ve learned from five decades of reporting on British elections.
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Labour is yet to win over the north
Also this week: red-on-red mayor wars, lessons from the locals, and Michael Gove’s hanging baskets.
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The Tory doomscroll
Dismayed by the local elections, Conservatives fear the party faces not only electoral defeat but a crisis of identity.
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