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Il capitano della nazionale di calcio francese ha messo in guardia contro la prospettiva che il partito di estrema destra Rassemblement National possa acquisire il potere. Il capitano del calcio francese, Kylian Mbappé, ha fatto infuriare il partito di estrema destra di Marine Le Pen dopo aver espresso preoccupazione per un'eventuale vittoria alle elezioni presidenziali dell'anno prossimo. Mbappé, 27 anni, cresciuto nei sobborghi nord di Parigi in una famiglia di origine algerina e camerunense, ha dichiarato a Vanity Fair questa settimana: "So cosa significa e quali conseguenze può avere per il mio paese quando persone come loro arrivano al potere". Continua a leggere...

Davis è il primo leader del Paese a servire un secondo mandato consecutivo in quasi 30 anni. Il primo ministro delle Bahamas, Philip Davis, e il suo partito di governo, il Progressive Liberal party (PLP), sono stati rieletti, rendendolo il primo leader del Paese a servire un secondo mandato consecutivo in quasi 30 anni. "Il popolo delle Bahamas ha parlato e accolgo il loro verdetto con umiltà e gratitudine", ha dichiarato Davis a Reuters. Continua a leggere...

Esclusiva: una bozza di dichiarazione trapelata afferma che il partito «non può continuare sul suo percorso attuale» sotto il Primo Ministro Keir Starmer non guiderà il suo partito alle prossime elezioni generali, hanno previsto i sindacati a sostegno dei Laburisti, in un intervento che minaccia di destabilizzare ulteriormente il primo ministro dopo alcuni giorni difficili. Gli 11 sindacati affiliati ai Laburisti – tra cui Unite, Unison e GMB – dovrebbero rilasciare mercoledì una dichiarazione congiunta affermando che «a un certo punto» il partito dovrà predisporre un piano per eleggere un nuovo leader. Continua a leggere...

• Un democratico del Connecticut con ambizioni politiche si ritira dai negoziati bipartisan per i finanziamenti governativi, mentre il suo partito richiede un maggiore coinvolgimento. • L'uscita interrompe i colloqui sul pacchetto di spesa da 1,2 trilioni di dollari, fondamentale per evitare uno shutdown entro il 1° giugno. • La mossa evidenzia le crescenti tensioni partitiche, rischiando un'impasse fiscale prima delle elezioni di metà mandato.

Esclusiva: La spinta a registrare un partito non affiliato con un nome identico a quello del gruppo grassroots segue il piano di Avi Yemini di utilizzare il 'Free Palestine party' per convogliare voti verso One Nation. Ricevi le nostre email con le ultime notizie, l'app gratuita o il podcast giornaliero. Muslim Votes Matter (MVM) ha presentato reclamo alla Commissione Elettorale del Victoria riguardo a un tentativo anonimo di registrare un partito politico con lo stesso nome in vista delle elezioni statali, accusandolo di voler deliberatamente trarre in inganno gli elettori. MVM è stata fondata prima delle elezioni federali del 2025 come movimento di pressione e advocacy dal basso, in risposta alle preoccupazioni per la mancanza di rappresentanza politica per i gruppi musulmani e le minoranze in Australia. Continua a leggere...

Il disinteresse da parte dei Labour del Regno Unito e le difficoltà dei servizi pubblici sono solo alcune delle ragioni dietro a questo collasso 'sbalorditivo'.

Esclusiva: il sindaco del Greater Manchester Andy Burnham è la scelta preferita per la nuova leadership per il 42% degli intervistati Risultati completi da Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles La maggioranza dei membri del Labour afferma di non credere che Keir Starmer possa invertire le sorti del partito, mentre il 45% ritiene che il primo ministro debba dimettersi. Il sindaco del Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, è stato la prima preferenza per il 42% dei membri, a cui è stato chiesto di classificare il proprio successore preferito. Continua a leggere...

Il leader dei Greens celebra il primo sindaco mai eletto del suo partito e la vittoria netta in tre consigli comunali Election 2026 live: ultimi aggiornamenti Risultati completi da Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles Zack Polanski ha dichiarato che il bipolarismo politico della Gran Bretagna è "morto e sepolto", dopo che il suo partito, i Greens, ha vinto per la prima volta un'elezione municipale e ha ottenuto consiglieri in tutta l'Inghilterra, tra cui la vittoria netta in tre consigli comunali. Mentre le perdite del Labour si accumulavano in tutto il paese e i Conservatori affrontavano un altro set di risultati deludenti, Polanski ha cercato di presentare il suo partito come l'opzione più percorribile per gli oppositori di Reform. Continua a leggere...

Per la prima volta il partito nazionalista gallese dispone di un sostegno sufficiente per governare il Galles, bloccando al contempo l'impeto di Reform UK Elezioni 2026 live: ultimi aggiornamenti Risultati completi da Inghilterra, Scozia e Gallesi Plaid Cymru è in rotta per dichiarare la vittoria nelle elezioni del Senedd gallese, un risultato che metterebbe contemporaneamente fine a quasi 30 anni di dominio del Labour nella politica decentralizzata del Galles e bloccherebbe l'avanzata di Reform UK di Nigel Farage. Entro l'inizio della serata di venerdì, con 14 dei 16 collegi dichiarati, il partito nazionalista gallese di centro-sinistra sembrava pronto a ottenere il sostegno necessario per guidare la nazione, sostituendo il Welsh Labour, che aveva vinto la quota maggiore di voti in ogni contestazione elettorale in Galles per più di 100 anni. Continua a leggere...

While Labour losses and Reform gains are obvious, the nature of how people actually voted is much more nuancedElections 2026 – live updatesFull results from England, Scotland and WalesEnglish local election results require careful interpretation. Not all places have them at the same time, a relatively small proportion complete their counts overnight and the early headlines may not reflect outcomes later in the day.But the headline number on Friday morning – that Labour has lost more than 250 councillors - will only grow as the day progresses. While Labour will want to stress that these “mid-term” elections often go badly for the incumbent Westminster government, they rarely go quite as badly as this. Continue reading...

Police say they arrested an 18-year-old man after weekend shooting at lake party promoted across social mediaSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailPolice announced on Wednesday that an 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a night-time party beside an Oklahoma lake.Police in Edmond announced that the man was arrested earlier in the day on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in the wake of Sunday night’s shooting, which erupted following an argument amid a large crowd gathered at Arcadia Lake in that Oklahoma City suburb. Continue reading...

In inner London boroughs such as Camden, home to PM’s constituency, Greens hope to capitalise on collapse in Labour supportMay elections: What’s at stake across England, Wales and Scotland?In Highgate New Town, a north London housing estate whose brutalist architecture has been a fixture of film shoots, the enormous scale of the challenge Labour faces in the capital from the Greens was starkly evident.“I’ve always voted Labour. My entire family has, but it feels like a time for a change,” said Cynthia Boampong after opening her door to Lorna Jane Russell, for now the only Green member on the local Camden council but who could be returned after 7 May at the head of a much larger group. With support for Zack Polanski’s party expected to surge across the capital, nearby Hackney council is tipped to be the centre of a realignment of progressive voters, with polling suggesting the Greens could take the mayoralty and end up the largest party. The Labour bastions of Lambeth and Lewisham are also under siege. Continue reading...

• Actor-turned-politician Vijay's newly formed AMMK Makkala Needhi Maiam (TVK) party has dramatically disrupted Tamil Nadu's traditional Dravidian political landscape, preventing any single party from securing an outright majority and leaving the state with a hung assembly requiring coalition negotiations. • The TVK's emergence represents a significant challenge to decades of DMK-AIADMK duopoly in one of India's most politically important southern states, forcing previously dominant parties to recalibrate their governance strategies. • Political analysts question whether Vijay, despite his mass appeal as a film star, can successfully navigate coalition politics and complex state governance with limited political experience.

Former leader says antisemitic comments by some election candidates are unacceptableUK politics live – latest updatesThe former Green leader Caroline Lucas has called for the party to take immediate action against candidates who have made antisemitic comments or posts, following a series of cases before Thursday’s elections.Lucas, who led or co-led the party for six years and served as its first MP, said that while the number of such cases was limited, they could not be ignored. Continue reading...

• Actor-turned-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) won 107 seats in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, making it the single largest party but falling 11 seats short of the 234-member assembly's majority threshold. • TVK is likely to be invited by the governor to form the government as the largest party, with confidence among party insiders of securing outside support from Congress, CPI, CPIM, and VCK to reach the required numbers. • Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin lost his traditional Kolathur constituency to TVK candidate VS Babu, marking a significant personal setback for the DMK in what was expected to be a stronghold.

No arrests made, police say, and site of shooting – a heavily wooded area – is slowing search for evidence and suspectAt least 13 people were hurt in a mass shooting during a party at a campground in Oklahoma on Sunday night, authorities said.The shooting took place at Spring Creek Park on Arcadia Lake about 15 miles north-east of downtown Oklahoma City, when gunfire erupted during a gathering of young people at about 9pm. Continue reading...

Councillors in Leicestershire support move in efforts to reduce flooding as Reform faces divisions on nature policyA Reform UK council has backed the release of wild beavers into the countryside, despite the party’s opposition to rewilding.The Reform-led Leicestershire county council has backed the release of the rodents as part of efforts to reduce flooding. Continue reading...

Heidi Alexander criticises Green leader over retweet of post suggesting police used excessive force when arresting suspectGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, has said Zack Polanski’s retweeting of a post suggesting the police used excessive force when they arrested the suspect in the Golders Green attack last week was “disgusting” and “absolutely abhorrent” as she claimed he was not “fit to lead a political party”.Polanski retweeted, without comment, a post on X alleging that officers were “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated by a stun gun.I thought it was disgusting what he did and absolutely abhorrent. Those police officers ran towards danger, they were armed only with a Taser that they had already discharged. The guy still had a knife in his hand. They were armed with their courage and their training.And I think for the leader of a political party to jump onto Twitter, start retweeting content criticising those policemen who responded with incredible bravery in what was a very difficult situation. I think it demonstrates that the man is not fit to lead a political party. Continue reading...

David Farley says net overseas migration of 306,000 ‘probably not’ too much despite party policy to cap migrants at 130,000 per yearFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBarnaby Joyce has blamed “the pressure of a campaign” for One Nation’s Farrer candidate contradicting party policy on immigration and appearing to endorse Labor’s current intake.The One Nation MP also claimed voters won’t worry about Gina Rinehart’s million-dollar donation of a private plane to Pauline Hanson’s party, claiming journalists were more interested than ordinary people in the lucrative gift from Rinehart’s company. Continue reading...

Mark Rowley says Zack Polanski’s comments risk undermining officers confronting ‘dangerous’ suspectsThe Green party leader, Zack Polanski, thoughtlessly undermined the confidence of officers to deal with dangerous people by sharing a critical social media post after the Golders Green stabbings, according to the head of the Metropolitan police.Officers were filmed detaining the suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in the north-west London suburb on Wednesday. Continue reading...

With voter loyalty a distant memory, the Lib Dems’ cost of living policies and criticism of Trump could gain them ground It has been an election buildup dominated by the rise of Reform UK and the Greens, and the contrasting woes of Labour and the Tories. But there is a chance that on 8 May the Liberal Democrats, largely ignored in recent weeks, could wake up as the biggest party in English local government.This is just one of several paradoxes for the party’s leader, Ed Davey, and his team. They are fifth in many national polls, with a rating barely changed from 2024. But Lib Dem bosses are sanguine, convinced that UK politics is now so different, so atomised, to make headline polling almost irrelevant. Continue reading...

• A politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat abandoned bipartisan negotiations on government funding amid party pressure for inclusion. • The walkout escalates tensions over federal budget priorities and spending cuts. • This could delay funding bills critical for upcoming fiscal deadlines.

Labor under pressure to scrap group voting tickets as Avi Yemini details plan to funnel votes to conservative parties at state election A rightwing provocateur’s plan to register the “Free Palestine party” and use it to funnel votes to conservative parties in Victoria’s state election has renewed concern over the state’s voting system.Avi Yemini, a former Israeli solider and self-styled investigative journalist who creates content for his YouTube channel Rebel News Australia, on Tuesday announced plans to register the party, which he said would “flow our preferences on to parties that want to free Palestine from Hamas” in the November poll. Continue reading...

One Nation outperforms the Coalition for the first time, while the rightwing populist party’s leader has a positive rating among all age groupsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA majority of surveyed Australians approve of Pauline Hanson’s leadership of One Nation, giving her a higher job approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, as the Guardian Essential poll finds the rightwing populist party is outperforming the Coalition for the first time.The results come as Australians are becoming more pessimistic about the country and the economy, with the majority of respondents saying they expected things to get worse in coming months. Continue reading...

• Anthropic's Mythos AI model, which the company deemed too dangerous for public release, has reportedly been accessed by an unauthorized third party in a significant security breach. • The incident has raised global concerns about AI safety and the security protocols surrounding advanced AI systems, particularly models flagged as high-risk by their developers. • The breach underscores ongoing tensions between AI safety considerations and cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the management of cutting-edge language models.

‘Critical debate’ about party’s identity and direction looms if it loses control of Senedd next month after 27 years in powerWelsh Labour is the democratic world’s most successful election-winning machine, coming first in Wales in every general election since 1922 and every devolved election since 1999. Come next month’s Senedd election, however, this history-making run is expected to end.Labour’s collapse has left a vacuum, and former Labour voters are going to opposite ends of the political spectrum. Plaid Cymru and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are neck and neck in the latest poll, although coalition maths make it highly unlikely Reform would be able to form a government. Continue reading...

Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris JohnsonThe lexicon of a British parliamentary scandal is arcane.As Keir Starmer fights to remain prime minister, he has had to respond to a “humble address”, had his judgment picked over during an “emergency opposition day debate” and now faces the ignominy of a “privilege motion”. Continue reading...

Hope Not Hate campaign identifies election hopefuls calling for a ‘white Britain’ and complaining of ‘kowtowing to the black community’A Reform UK candidate who called for a “white Britain” and said Keir Starmer should be shot is among a number of contenders fuelling doubts about the party’s claim to have tightened up its vetting.The past comments of Linda McFarlane and other political hopefuls have been unearthed ahead of the 7 May elections, including one who complained about “constant kowtowing to the black community” and others who endorsed the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Continue reading...