Bridget Phillipson: “This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right, and upholding the values anyone holding public…”

You can find more whitewash in this report than at your local B&Q. Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face. They can’t run from the truth forever.

Every Reform councillor, council candidate or party member found to have made such despicable comments must be thrown out of Reform UK immediately.

Kemi Badenoch's Tories held young people back and caused the welfare bill to spiral. To pretend she's suddenly on the side of young people is frankly insulting.

We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end.