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What happened in local elections overnight and what’s still to come?

1 hour ago ShareSave Becky Morton Political reporter ShareSave Getty Images Knife-edge Runcorn by-election Reform UK won its first Parliamentary by-election, taking Runcorn and...

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Reform and Labour four votes apart as Runcorn goes to recount

The Runcorn and Helsby by-election is on a knife edge, with just four votes separating Reform UK and Labour, the BBC has been told....

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Runcorn and Helsby by-election – all you need to know

1 hour ago ShareSave Kaleigh Watterson ShareSave EPA Polls have closed in the Westminster by-election in Runcorn and Helsby on the same day as...

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Jobs fears as disability scheme owes businesses thousands

4 hours ago ShareSave Michael Buchanan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent ShareSave Contributor handout Businesses employing disabled people say they are owed hundreds of thousands...

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Gove gets peerage in Sunak’s resignation honours list

Michael Gove is among several ex-Conservative ministers to be given a seat in the House of Lords in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list. The...

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Starmer discusses US tariffs with Northern Irish ministers

Deputy First Minister Little-Pengelly raised concerns about how potential EU retaliatory tariffs could impact on Northern Ireland, given its links to Brussels through the...

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PM does not give date for closure of asylum centre

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to put a date on when an asylum centre at a former RAF airbase would be closed....

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Deadline nears to register to vote in local elections

Registration to vote in May’s local and mayoral elections in England is to close on Friday. Anyone who wants to vote has until 23:59...

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Union anger after bin workers urged to agree deal

13 hours ago ShareSave Andy Giddings BBC News, West Midlands ShareSave EPA Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has urged striking bin workers in Birmingham...

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Penny Mordaunt joins British American Tobacco

Former Conservative cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt is taking up a part-time paid role with British American Tobacco as a member of its “transformation advisory...

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British Steel talks still deadlocked, source says

The talks to keep production going at the UK’s last virgin steel plant in Scunthrope are yet to reach a resolution, the BBC has...

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Farage rejects local Reform UK-Tory coalitions

36 minutes ago ShareSave Paul Seddon Political reporter ShareSave PA Media Nigel Farage has dismissed a suggestion from Kemi Badenoch that Reform UK and...

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