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The final polls of the general election showed neither Labour or the Tories could break the deadlock that looked destined to end in a hung parliament.
Labour pulled back three points to end the campaign level with the Tories on 35 per cent, according to the final ICM poll for the Guardian.
The pollster predicted that would leave both parties with exactly 273 MPs.
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal