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UK to pay France another £660m to curb Channel crossings

impact, the government will withhold the remaining £110m in years two and three, it says, billing it as the first “payment-by-results” scheme in the Channel. Labour, which is predicted to lose councils

Local election campaigning enters final week as forecaster warns Labour could lose 1,850 English seats –UK politics live

results are assessed by how they match up against expectations). Last night Hayward revealed his forecast on ITV’s Peston.  Robert Hayward’s forecast

Labour expected to lose Senedd after century of winning elections in Wales

Starmer". A Labour defeat in Wales would have political significance of historic proportions. One of the founders of the modern Labour party, Keir Hardie was MP for Merthyr Tydfil from 1900 to 1915 and Labour

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

Keir Starmer’s own constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. Labour activists knocking on doors across the borough report being regularly confronted with Starmer’s unpopularity – one activist confessed to being taken by surprise

Labour claims Reform UK won’t protect women, as poll suggests Farage’s party heading for ‘seismic’ wins in May – UK politics live

impact of such views on young people. > > **10. Reform’s record on violence against women raises serious concerns** > > The party is considering bringing back former MP James McMurdock, who was jailed for assaulting his then

Major test for Labour as polls open in English, Scottish and Welsh elections

Keir Starmer and the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) government have faced since the 2024 general election. As millions of people across Great Britain go to the polls on Thursday, party leaders are poised

Zack Polanski calls two-party politics dead after mayoral and council wins

local government expert at the London School of Economics, said that the Greens’ failure to make more of an imprint in London reflected the capital’s unique status in England, with results appearing favouring

Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

local tests in England, and national ballots in Wales and Scotland - votes another cabinet minister frets "will be a disaster". We've been travelling around Wales this week, and Scotland last week, talking

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/keir-starmer-under-pressure-to-agree-exit-plan-after-election-mauling) for Labour. Brown, the former prime minister and long-serving chancellor under Tony Blair, has been made Starmer’s envoy on global finance, with a brief to advise on financial partnerships

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

Keir Starmer’s leadership. Barring a drastic change in fortunes, Labour’s vote-share could fall to historic lows across elections for councils in England and devolved parliaments in Wales and [Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland)