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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Voters across England headed to the polls on Thursday for the latest round of local elections – and now the results are being counted and will begin to trickle in. More than 8,000 […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Matt Hancock received £10,000 for a television appearance in which he said he did not “primarily” go on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! for the money. The former health […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska arrives at Downing Street for a meeting with Akshata Murty, the wife of Rishi Sunak. The pair previously met in London back in November 2022 […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Campaigners calling for tactical voting in the forthcoming local elections have revealed the “blue wall” councils in the South of England where the strategy could overturn a Conservative majority. Rishi Sunak’s party is […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Voters across England will head to the polls today for a series of local elections. More than 8,000 seats will be contested at 230 councils, with Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough among several […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Labour council candidate who campaigned alongside senior party figures has been suspended over a tweet accusing a member of the royal family of being a sex offender. A post on the profile […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has said the Conservatives are moving away from “box set drama” politics – but warned they were in for a “hard night” at the local elections, it has been reported. Polls […] More