A young teacher campaigning for Labour in Dudley has been overwhelmed with abuse after fake subtitles were put over a viral video of her canvassing to suggest she had been racist.

Police and an independent forensic analysis found she had not been..

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Significant private disquiet amongst some Labour women about Natalie Elphicke's defection...

🤷‍♂️I have been searching in vain for a Conservative MP who thinks themself to the right of Natalie Elphicke.

😂One just quipped, “I didn’t realise there was any room to her right.”

EXC: Global Counsel, the firm founded by Peter Mandelson, has lobbied for a campaign that critics say would stifle mass lawsuits like Mr Bates v Post Office

Seema Kennedy, a Global Counsel adviser, wrote twice to ministers opposing a law Bates called for

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Such a great piece on the McSweeney project by Tom McTague - esp on the rejection of idea that Labour should simply give up on the pro Brexit working class voters and chase middle class graduates (which has been key to why this worked and Change UK didn’t) unherd.com/2024/05/the-mc…

Excl - Momentum’s future is “hanging in the balance” after the group’s co-chair Hilary Schan resigns and quits Labour to campaign for the Greens & independent candidates

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Hilarious fusion food in Waitrose magazine this month

ConHome has some news for its readers conservativehome.com/2024/05/05/goo…

My take on whether the Tories can turn things round. (Spoiler: probably not)