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Greens ‘have welcomed’ people expelled by Labour for antisemitism, Steve Reed claims

won. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Reed, who before entering parliament was leader of Lambeth council in south London, where the Greens are tipped to make significant gains, pointed to recent media coverage accusing some Green

Scottish Labour leader calls claim he tried to do Reform deal a ‘desperate lie’

won the Holyrood elections on 7 May but fell short of an overall majority. Under Scottish parliament rules, a first minister has to be elected by MSPs. The convention is that the largest party

PM insists he will not walk away as Burnham promises to change Labour

councils and have created an unaccountable state, where too much is delivered by outsourced agencies outside local councillors' control." Burnham said his party's offer to voters had "not been good enough" and that

Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

UK. Starmer struck a defiant note on Friday morning in the face of calls from some of his MPs to quit, insisting he remained as determined as ever to deliver the promises on which

Who is Zack Polanski, UK Greens leader and rising political star?

seats will be up for grabs on Thursday as voters in 136 local authorities head to the polls, including in London and other major UK cities. According to polling group YouGov, the Green Party appears

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

won over a contingent of culturally conservative but economically insecure voters. However, the Greens are on the rise in the north too, fresh from their win in the byelection for Gorton and Denton

Andy Burnham: 'King of the North' with eyes on the top job

seat where Reform UK came second by 5,399 votes at the 2024 general election and swept the board at last week's local elections. In a statement, Burnham said: "I truly do not take

Six things to watch out for in the Scottish election

won the Scottish Parliament election. With local strongholds in the balance, familiar faces fighting to hold onto their seats and the future direction of Scottish politics at stake, every party has a part to play

Wes Streeting insists he can win Labour leadership race despite ‘underdog’ status

Reform government. Although there is no official leadership contest – Starmer is still in Downing Street and the favourite, Andy Burnham, is campaigning to win a byelection – Streeting said it was “inevitable” the prime minister would

How the High Street became a window on our political instability

seats they won, or came second in. It built on previous research - from academics at the universities of Warwick and Oxford, and Imperial College London - that linked visible High Street decline to support