Re-upping this Makerfield focus group from last week in light of headlines around PM re-opening convo on EU. I thought he’d get a Brexit backlash. But my big surprise in group was that nearly all these leave voters had regret & open to PM’s look again m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdmZQ…

BREAKING: Ex-Tory director of campaigning Anthony Lee has been spared jail at Southwark Crown Court after he admitted cheating at gambling on the date of the 2024 general election.

Tories win all three local by elections in England last night - one gain apiece from Labour, the Greens and Independents

🚨 New figures show that knife crime is down by 11% and overall homicides are down by 7%, since July 2024. Fatal knife attacks are also at their lowest level in 35 years.

🚨NEW: Westminster Electoral Calculus MRP, with tactical voting: 🌹 LAB: 27% ➡️ REF: 22% 🌳 CON: 19% 🔶 LDM: 9% 🌍 GRN: 8% 🦁 RES: 8% Polling via @FindoutnowUK

The fullest plan yet for Britain to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a closer relationship with the bloc. Today the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), an influential centre-left think tank, publishes two substantial reports laying out the most serious approach yet to rejoining the EU, as Andy Burnham’s pro-European tilt begins to take on a life of its own. Read @EthanCroft98's report: newstatesman.com/politics/20…

Devolution was never meant to stop at Holyrood’s door. We have one of the strongest devolved Parliaments in Europe and yet we’re still one of its most centralised nations. We want to change that & want to work with the Scottish Government to empower Scotland’s regions.

Reform councillor quits over offensive remarks bbc.in/3TZlD8O

Three Scottish Independence polls out today one with YES in the lead and two with NO ahead. Should Scotland be an indendent country? Survation YES 52% NO 48% More in Common YES 48% NO 52% YouGov YES 47% NO 53%

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the "time has come" for deeper devolution in Scotland and to unlock a feeling of positivity for young people, who he says are missing out on opportunities. trib.al/wfFezz7 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Half of Scots view SNP as incompetent with majority branding party 'out of touch' and 'untrustworthy' dailyrecord.co.uk/news/polit…

While disenfranchising 800k Brits who lived in EU... and 20percent of Leave voters are now dead of old age.

🇪🇺💸EU leaders fail to agree on €1.7 trillion defense budget An EU summit in Brussels ended in failure. Leaders had planned to approve the bloc’s 2028–2034 budget, worth €1.76 trillion and featuring increased military spending. But they couldn’t reach an agreement: an attempt to cut spending by €140 billion sparked a bitter dispute between wealthy donor countries and the main beneficiaries of the EU budget. ◽️The end of the meeting was telling. European leaders could think of nothing better than to cancel the closing press conference. Heads of state and government, including Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa, hurriedly left the European Council building, refusing to answer journalists’ awkward questions about the financial future of a “united Europe.”

Andy Burnham has ruled out a second independence referendum, The Telegraph understands. The Prime Minister said during a speech in Motherwell that his view on the Union would not change and that he wanted to “move on” from a second referendum debate. Follow the latest updates 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Goldman prices closer EU ties at up to 6% of GDP. The bit nobody models is the payslip. Britain's tax wedge on the average worker is 32.4%. The EU-13 average is 42.0%. Put lower and middle earners on EU labour taxes and the bill is about £100bn a year.