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Angeliki Stogia, a Manchester city councillor, was chosen to fight the seat after a hustings event and vote by local members. The byelection was triggered by the resignation of former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne, over ill health. Gwynne remains under parliamentary standards investigation, after a scandal involving a WhatsApp group called Trigger Me Timbers that shared inflammatory comments about constituents, local party members and other MPs, which led to him being suspended by Labour.

Following Suella Braverman's Reform switch, she's now 3/1 favourite to be the next Reform leader.

The 'Next UK General Election - Most Seats' betting market has been hugely popular with bettors this week. Reform are the odds-on favourites at 10/11 to win the most seats at the next general election.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

After navigating a half-hour queue to get through security, a group of us were told we needed to go back outside, walk 10 minutes and then go through security again to reach the media centre. Which would have been fine except the staff at the new entrance had been given instructions not to admit the media, and told us to go back to where we had started and queue for security a third time.

Ministers are changing the voting system for mayoral elections, moving to a preferential system to ensure candidates have broader support rather than first-past-the-post.

do not all have a consensus on this. Some view things slightly differently. Do I think that [the carbon dioxide that humans are putting into the atmosphere] will definitely change the climate? No.

Badenoch emphasized the importance of open communication at her constituency surgery and requested that individuals wearing face coverings, including burqas, remove them to foster engagement.

The Labour government is launching a significant overhaul of Britain's immigration system, aiming to tighten both irregular and legal migration routes amid record net migration figures.

Farage has learned from his past failures and is working to professionalize Reform in the same way the Liberal Democrats have successfully operated at local levels.