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Lonely at the top: who are Keir Starmer’s allies as daunting May elections loom?

7 May, which are expected to be disastrous for his party. All that said, Starmer is not totally isolated. Unlike some prime ministers, whose connections in parliament felt largely transactional, there are people in Starmer

In the UK, Muslim votes are treated as a problem to be managed

7. Westminster is absorbed in the spectacle, and understandably so. But for British Muslim communities, the lasting significance of those elections lies elsewhere. The May vote brought a real surge in Muslim civic engagement, with

Green party threat to Labour in London laid bare in Starmer’s own back yard

7 May at the head of a much larger group. With support for Zack Polanski’s party expected to surge across the capital, nearby Hackney council is tipped to be the centre of a realignment

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

7 May, a third of candidates are women and two-thirds are men, with no party achieving gender parity, according to analysis by 50:50 Parliament and Democracy Club shared exclusively with the Guardian

If Plaid win in Wales, that won't mean independence - at least not yet

2024, there are questions over how well it has lowered that temperature mentioned by Morgan in her January speech. A long list of Welsh Labour demands for more powers, such as devolution of the Crown

Tuesday briefing: After an historic shift in power, where might Plaid Cymru go next?

7 May election, Bethan tells me, she was in the centre of Cardiff, where Plaid leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, was giving an impromptu victory speech. “There were easily a couple of thousand people there