With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass that spoke out against inequality, discrimination, war, and climate destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
A failure of a victory for Starmer
With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY

NO prime minister has entered Downing Street with a more compromised mandate, with scarcely a breeze to lift his sails.
The joy at the end of Tory rule, symbolised by the loss of the constituencies once represented by David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, cannot disguise the less than ringing endorsement of Keir Starmer’s Labour.
Nor can the iniquities of the first-past-the-post system, which gifted Labour a Commons landslide over a divided right, mask the fact that Starmer takes office with his electoral coalition already crumbling.
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