Cleaners at £15,000 a year school vote to strike over poverty pay (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Nadhim Zahawi Quits (twitter.com)
The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon...
Bank of England boss weighs in on UK economy row - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour (www.bbc.co.uk)
Dirty, dangerous, and failing: Crisis in UK prisons revealed | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
There’s going to be an Urgent Question on the prisons crisis after PMQs today, so I thought I’d share this for some helpful background info.
Labour and the Tories egg each other on to shred our democratic rights (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Wayve: Nvidia and Microsoft invest as UK AI firm raises $1bn - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West's possible deepening role in Ukraine (www.yahoo.com)
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Hilary Schan: Momentum chair quits Labour to campaign against its MPs at next election (news.sky.com)
I'm thinking that noticing the many similarities between Labour and the Tories misses the most important thing, the fringes.
To elaborate…...
Rishi Sunak admits Tories may not win general election | ITV News (www.itv.com)
Tory bosses 'lost the plot' in London by picking Susan Hall (inews.co.uk)
George Galloway’s Plan to DESTROY the Labour Party | Downstream [01:25:23 | May 05 2024 | Novara Media] (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15074083...
Rishi Sunak admits Tories may not win general election | ITV News (www.itv.com)
George Galloway hangs up on Lewis Goodall after being asked to explain why he said ‘gay relationships aren’t equal’ (www.lbc.co.uk)
‘Biased’ Met Police arrest protesters for holding image of ‘clear blue sky’ (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Conservatives lose West Midlands mayor, capping bleak results for Rishi Sunak (www.bbc.co.uk)
Labour’s Richard Parker wins in West Midlands, where Andy Street was hoping to hold on as Conservative mayor...
London Mayor: Count Binface beats 'Britain First' immigration candidate (www.cityam.com)
London, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Mayor Sadiq Khan wins historic third term (apnews.com)
Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' (www.standard.co.uk)
Tories take refuge in fantasy as local election drubbing becomes clear (www.theguardian.com)
Giving away local power has come back to bite the political centre (www.ft.com)
The UK is too centralised, but experiments with devolution are in their infancy and still have mixed results...
Labour wins Blackpool South by-election as Tories lose councils (www.bbc.co.uk)
Two men arrested in hit and run by local election polling station (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)
Former PM made the requirement to bring photo ID a stipulation of the Elections Act in 2022
