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Keir Starmer has said Labour is set to ditch its longstanding commitment to abolish university tuition fees in England, arguing it was necessary to move on from the idea because of the economic situation.Starmer said his party was looking at options for how to fund universities, but made it clear the existing promise to get rid of student-paid tuition fees, one of the pledges he made when standing to lead Labour in 2020, was being dropped.

Jeremy Corbyn has given his strongest hint yet that he will stand as an independent candidate, saying he has no intention of stopping the fight to represent his north London constituents.The former party leader was on Tuesday formally blocked from standing for Labour at the next election, prompting leftwingers to fiercely criticise Keir Starmer's authoritarian and divisive move.

The founder of the left-wing pressure group Momentum has been condemned for comparing Keir Starmer to Russia leader Vladimir Putin over the move to block Jeremy Corbyn from standing for Labour.Jon Lansman said Sir Keir is behaving like a Putin of the Labour Party for seeking to stop the former leader from standing again as a Labour candidate in his Islington North constituency.

Islington North MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is sitting as an independent (Image: PA Media) Islington MP Jeremy Corbyn is expected to be officially blocked from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election tomorrow (March 28).Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will propose a motion at a meeting of the party's ruling body, The National Executive Committee (NEC), that states it will not endorse Mr Corbyn as a candidate at the election.

A total of 230 local authorities in England are holding elections on May 4. Polls are also taking place to choose mayors in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough.Local elections typically reflect voters' attitudes about neighbourhood concerns, such as when bins are collected, the state of parks and pavements, or access to libraries and hospitals.

At the River and Roads cafe just outside the market town of Atherstone, Amy Adams and Lucy Ford are busy serving up cooked breakfasts to customers.Neither are gripped by local-election fever, but they know the issues that matter to them.For Lucy, a single parent who works seven days a week, rising prices are one of the things at the forefront of her mind.

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This year's local elections, which take place on Thursday 4 May in most of England outside London, have long been billed as a tough first electoral test for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.When he took over from Liz Truss as Conservative leader, at the end of October, the party was as much as 30 points behind Labour in the polls - and the spectre of heavy local-council losses this spring has loomed large ever since.

The Tories will have to find the general election on the trans rights debate and other culture war issues, the party's controversial new deputy chairman Lee Anderson has said.Mr Anderson known for his forthright opinions dismissing food bank use and bringing back the death penalty said the party could no longer rely on Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn as vote winners.

Sir Keir Starmer has shown the door to any Labour members who oppose his work on antisemitism, warning them the party is never going back.It comes as it was confirmed Labour is no longer being monitored by the equalities watchdog after making changes to address its handling of antisemitism.The Labour leader, who will again apologise on behalf of the party on Wednesday, used an article in the Times newspaper to point to the permanent, fundamental, irrevocable changes made since he took over from Jeremy Corbyn.

Sir Keir Starmer has said that Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as Labour's candidate in Islington North at the next general election (Image: PA) Sir Keir Starmer says Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as a Labour Party candidate at the next general election.Mr Corbyn, MP for Islington North, had the Labour whip removed over his response to the scathing Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into antisemitism in the party in October 2020.

A Labour member since his teenage years, Jeremy Corbyn has been a devotee to the party he led through one of the most turbulent periods in British political history.But he is now facing the end of his long political marriage with the Labour Party.His successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has told him he will not be a Labour candidate at the next election.

Sir Keir Starmer's move to block Jeremy Corbyn from running to be a Labour MP at the next election has been backed by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC).A Labour spokesman said the leader's motion passed by 22 votes to 12 on Tuesday afternoon, meaning it is now down to Mr Corbyn to decide whether to run as an independent candidate.

Most of what happens in parliament is theatre symbolic and significant, but one step away from reality.But the discussion and debate in the weeks and days leading up to the Iraq war was the most intense and emotional that I have witnessed in the Commons.It was literally about matters of life and death.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Labour is no longer being monitored by the equalities watchdog after making the changes demanded over its law-breaking handling of antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour is no longer being monitored by Britain's equalities watchdog after the party successfully made changes to its law-breaking handling of antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn.Sir Keir Starmer described the judgment as an important moment in the history of the Labour party but vowed that internal reform was not yet over and warned against complacency.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the London seat of Islington North for Labour at each of the last 10 general elections, often by a comfortable margin.At the most recent election in 2019, he won 64% of the vote, with the other parties some way behind on 16% (Liberal Democrats), 10% (Conservative) and 8% (Green).

There is no mystery to a pending vote on Sir Keir Starmer's formal proposal to block Jeremy Corbyn from running for the party at the next general election, Ed Miliband has said.The Labour leader will on Tuesday put forward a motion at a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) saying it will not endorse his predecessor.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has set out his plan to "make Britain's streets safe".Sir Keir fleshed out his first mission, securing the highest sustained growth in the G7, in February.And we have been getting an insight into what is likely to be included in Labour's election offer from a series of speeches by frontbenchers.

A student rent protester has described how they were removed by bailiffs from a University of Manchester building in the early hours of the morning, describing it as a very scary experience.Protesters at the University of Manchester are demanding a 30% rent reduction, a rent freeze and a cost-of-living payment of 1,500, among other things.

You might imagine that nothing could prevent a Labour victory at the next election.The Conservatives could scarcely have done more to alienate voters and destroy public trust.Everyone knows that in this ridiculous first-past-the-post system, the only party in a position to replace them is Labour.Many will vote accordingly.

Jeremy Corbyn is set to be blocked from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election, with Sir Keir Starmer set to bring a motion confirming the move to a meeting of the party's ruling body.The Labour leader will propose a motion that will make clear that the National Executive Committee will not endorse Mr Corbyn at the next election, expected in around 18 months' time.

The Government official found the Met Police to be riven with racism, sexism and homophobia, in the way it treats its staff and the way it polices Londoners.She also criticised its inability to protect women and children.Baroness Casey said the force must apologise for past mistakes, improve its accountability, and restore front-line policing to the standards people expect.

By David Wallace Lockhart


BBC News political correspondent


The leaders of a local Labour Party have walked out over a "a clique in London" they claim are dictating who is selected to stand as an MP.Nine members of Labour's 13 strong Bolton North East executive say they "lack confidence in the integrity" of the party's selection process.