Bridget Phillipson: “It should be their hard work and their talent that takes them where they need to be.”

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.

It’s clear that Farage and his party are determined to poison our politics and threaten the shared British values Labour will always proudly defend.

We live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days.

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