The Greater Manchester MP was suspended from Labour after reports he sent offensive messages in a WhatsApp Group

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party slipped behind the main opposition Conservative Party in Bloomberg’s composite poll for the first time since the July 2024 general election.

More than 60 Labour MPs have called on the prime minister to impose a ban on under-16s access to social media platforms. In a open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday, the 61 MPs said "successive governments" had done "too little to protect young people from... unregulated, addictive social media platforms".

Runcorn and Helsby also showed us that while Lib Dem and Conservative voters are remarkably easy to squeeze in a Lab vs Ref fight, Green voters are not. In Lab vs Ref fights, of the main parties, Green votes are the most stubborn.

Labour chiefs warned not to rig by-election selection to block Burnham - Labour heavyweight Andy Burnham could use a vacancy in a Greater Manchester seat to seek a path to return to Westminster.

The megapoll of 5,000 voters said that Labour would lose half its seats, and control of six councils. Juast 5% of voters said they backed the delays. Nigel Farage has accused Labour of behaving like a "banana republic" by moving to cancel the elections, warning that they are "denying democracy".

Sir Keir Starmer has scrapped a key plank of his plans for digital ID, rowing back on the requirement to make it mandatory for right-to-work checks in yet another U-turn from the beleaguered Labour government.