Peter Walker

3 days ago | msn.com | Rajeev Syal |Peter Walker

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Peter Walker

A leading Green has launched a surprise campaign to oust Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay as party leaders, saying the party needs to be less timid and transform itself into a radical, mass-membership “eco-populism” movement. Zack Polanski, who has been deputy leader since 2022 and serves as a London assembly member, will challenge Denyer and Ramsay this summer despite them taking the party to its best-ever general election result last year, winning four seats.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Peter Walker |Eleni Courea |Kiran Stacey

Nigel Farage claimed he had broken the grip of Britain’s two main political parties as Reform UK gained an MP and swept to a string of victories in England’s local elections, making deep inroads into Labour and Conservative heartlands. On a sobering day for Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch that brought immediate recriminations, Reform took hundreds of councillors from the struggling Tories and won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes ahead of Labour.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Peter Walker

The electoral picture is broad, and a few results are still coming in. But enough has happened for each of the five main parties to have a good sense of how well or badly they did in Thursday’s local elections. 1. Reform UK – 5 rosettes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The earliest results seemed to point at Nigel Farage’s party doing much as the polls had predicted – very well, and from a standing start, but with some squeeze from voters trying to keep them out.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Eleni Courea |Kiran Stacey |Peter Walker

Keir Starmer is under fire from Labour MPs after losing his first byelection in government to Nigel Farage’s party by just six votes. Backbenchers have accused the prime minister and his team of complacency about the Runcorn and Helsby contest and questioned why he did not visit the seat during the campaign. One senior Labour MP said: “I was quite shocked at how complacent the campaign was, especially in Runcorn but nationally as well.