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WELL that was exciting wasn’t it? They called it Super Thursday, presumably in the vain attempt to elicit any form of enthusiasm among the voting populace.
But in reality, despite the almost tropical weather, the mood was more akin to a rainy weekend in Wigan.
Due to the blanket coverage afforded to next month’s EU poll, the local elections despite their importance seemed like a warm-up exercise for June 23.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE