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Labour ‘must explain rail nationalisation blunder that cost taxpayers £250m’
MPs demand answers amid fears that fares will rise to meet extra costs of South Western Railway takeover
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Council rejects VE Day anniversary parade because it’s ‘too elitist’
Dacorum borough council tells Hertfordshire residents to host their own parties instead
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Former Tory MSP defects to Liberal Democrats
Jamie Greene tells conference he has found his new home after the Tories moved to ‘a Reform-lite agenda’
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Scottish Lib Dem leader ‘anxious’ over Swinney’s anti-Reform UK summit
Alex Cole-Hamilton says it is wrong to ‘no-platform’ Nigel Farage’s party
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Lib Dems vow to usurp Tories as ‘party of Middle England’
Sir Ed Davey hopes to erode Conservative vote in 20 Tory-run councils up for election on May 1
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Lib Dems accused of ignoring women by backing gender self-ID
Activists back a change in the law despite 75 pc of party members disagreeing
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Historic swimming pool where wartime Cockleshell Heroes trained is to be demolished
Portsmouth residents protest against council’s decision to flatten Eastney Swimming Pool, which they argue is community asset
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Peers to force vote on reinstating local elections cancelled by Rayner
Reform UK and Lib Dems would have performed well in many affected areas
Analysis and opinion
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I was one of the first Westerners banned from Hong Kong. This is what it was like
We need to affirm our liberal and democratic values by standing up to China’s brutal regime
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Conservatives shouldn’t dance on Reform’s grave
Nigel Farage’s party is vital to keep the Tories honest. Without it, it would likely return to centrist mush
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Nato is dead, but there’s still time to build a real European alliance
We need a new European Atlantic Treaty Organisation, with Britain leading by example
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Do not discriminate against gender-critical women, Lib Dems told
Party’s chief executive writes to constituencies reminding them of equality laws after losing several legal battles with members over issue
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UK golf courses under siege by Rachel Reeves’ ‘build, build, build’ mantra
Pressure on local authorities to meet Labour’s house-building targets has left ‘one in five clubs on the brink’ of permanent closure
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Gail’s faces backlash over opening Bath branch
We do not need another coffee shop, say some of the Georgian city’s residents
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Elderly struck down with flu at record rate after winter fuel raid
Opposition criticises Labour’s cut to pensioners’ heating support as hospital admissions set a new record every other week
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Cash-strapped Lib Dem council to pay new boss more than Prime Minister
Dorset’s local authority offering salary of up to £200,000 – £34,000 more than the wage earned by Sir Keir Starmer
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Potholes more likely to be fixed by Tory councils than Labour
Road users put at risk from highways ‘riddled with holes’ warns MP
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Corridor care ‘normalised’ as 12-hour trolley waits hit record high
More than 500,000 patients waited more than 12 hours in emergency departments to be admitted to a bed last year
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Farage: Tories running scared by postponing local elections
Critics claim Kemi Badenoch is ‘bottling it’, with majority of authorities asking to delay May poll Conservative-run
