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May 1 ruling from the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals would have banned access to mifepristone by mail. The court ruling would have impacted the whole country. . The last government, run by Labour, said in April: "We are committed to ensuring that our significant investment in NHS education and training is matched by meaningful employment
may follow. Several others –including Richard Hermer and Steve Reed – were defiant, urging him to fight on. Jones told Times Radio that most MPs wanted to focus on using the time in government to deliver
Labour figure interpreted this as a sign of fraying loyalties, and said "serious cabinet ministers are not prepared to defend [the PM] or sully themselves". Another MP said: "They are looking for life rafts. They
election casualty was SNP heavyweight [Angus Robertson, who lost Edinburgh Central to former Green co-leader Lorna Slater](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78k79xm2mzo) in the party's first-ever constituency win. The Greens backed that
May. The provisional stats out on Thursday are for the month of March. Without them, the government would not have been able to show whether its target could be met before the election. Labour
elections. Bob, an engineering manager, summed up what several members felt. “I don’t know if it would be better off without him, because it’s like, at the moment things aren’t good
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. In local
May 2026](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a49bb04ba783dbef0b5487562576071c2736b839/0_0_1708_2125/master/1708.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Photograph: The Guardian “London mayor blocks Met’s AI deal with controversial tech firm” is the **Guardian**’s splash today. The **FT** says “SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs to trigger
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
may not return to the Senedd. Although a defeat for Labour was widely expected after poor showings in recent opinion polls, a loss in Wales would have political significance of historic proportions. A former Welsh
may make the situation worse, green campaigners have warned. Ami McCarthy, the head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: “With people’s bills and prices soaring from yet another fossil fuel crisis, these local elections
Labour party in Norway has been buffeted by all manner of scandals, has a disapproval rating that is only a marginal improvement on that of Starmer. The same is true of Bart de Wever
Labour MP called on Starmer to quit. 2. ***Middle East*** | [Iranian forces seized two ships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/iranian-forces-ships-seized-strait-of-hormuz-us-peace-talks) in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades
impact of asylum and migration on housing. Scotland, like the rest of the UK, has experienced a boom in immigration in recent years. Official routes such as international student visas account for [most
elected politicians voted for this, and we could never have imagined that a bill of this importance would end in this way – simply being talked out, without a vote and without anything meaningful we could
party leadership, [the charity has said](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/05/zack-polanski-falsely-claimed-to-be-british-red-cross-spokesperson-charity-says). 2. ***Fuel shortages***| Two million airline seats have been [cut from this month’s schedules](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/05/airline-seats-cut-jet-fuel-prices) as airlines redraw their operations because of soaring