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🚨 RESULT: Fairwood Ward - Swansea Council

🔶 LIB: 29.3% (+19.9)
🌹 LAB: 22.6% (-9.3)
➡️ RFM: 17.0% (+17.0)
🙋🏻‍♂️ IND: 11.5% (+11.5)
🌳 CON: 10.3% (-30.3)

Lib Dem GAIN from Conservative.

Beth Rowe is elected.

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🚨 NEW: Word clouds showing what the public think of each party leader have been released by More in Common.

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🚨 NEW: Rupert Lowe has pulled out of his upcoming appearance on the Daily T podcast, hosted by Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley, scheduled for this Monday.

He was due to discuss the Makerfield by-election and other hot topics of the day.

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BY-ELECTIONS TODAY! 🗳️

1x Conservative Defence

🌳 Fairwood (Swansea Council)

#VoteRightWing

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🚨 NEW: Westminster Voting Intention:

➡️ RFM: 25% (-1)
🌍 GRN: 19% (+2)
🌳 CON: 18% (+1)
🌹 LAB: 16% (-1)
🔶 LIB: 12% (-1)
🎗️ SNP: 3% (=)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 27 May.
Changes w/ 20 May.

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🚨 NEW: A debate on Rupert Lowe’s rape gang inquiry will take place in Parliament on Monday.

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🚨 NEW: Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, previously blamed Hillary Clinton for the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

‘With a smile and lipstick… she created ISIS with her foreign policy... had she stayed out of Libya, the bombing wouldn’t have happened’.

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🚨 NEW: Makerfield By-Election Betting Odds with 3 Weeks To Go - Implied Chance

🌹 LAB: 7/20 | 71% (+11)
➡️ RFM: 10/3 | 22% (-8)
🟣 RES: 14/1 | 6% (-4)
🌍 GRN: 550/1 | 0% (-)

Via @oddschecker, 28 May.
Changes w/ 19 May.

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🚨 NEW: Lee Anderson has said that he ‘stands by every word’ he said after being named in a letter reporting Reform UK to the equalities watchdog for alleged Islamophobia.

He said that there is ‘no such thing as Islamophobia’.

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🚨 BREAKING: HMRC has given trans taxpayers lifetime access to a VIP phone line which answers calls twice as fast.

It claims access is needed to ensure ‘greater protection’ of trans people under equality laws.

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🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch has announced that the Conservatives’ strategy to win Aberdeen South will be to make the by-election a referendum on the oil and gas industry.

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🚨 NEW: Westminster Voting Intention:

➡️ RFM: 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB: 20% (-3)
🌳 CON: 19% (-1)
🌍 GRN: 13% (+3)
🔶 LIB: 12% (-1)
🎗️ SNP: 3% (=)

Via @Moreincommon_, 25 May.
Changes w/ 19 May.

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🚨 NEW: All three former full-time Armed Forces personnel currently serving as elected members in the Welsh Senedd are Reform UK politicians.

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🚨 NEW: Resident doctors in England will strike from June 15-19 due to a dispute with the Government over pay.

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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has written to the Charity Commission over Hope Not Hate’s political activity in the Makerfield by-election.

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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has demanded that Labour call a snap general election if Sir Keir Starmer is ousted as Prime Minister.

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🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, Sarah Wakefield, runs a charity which calls for British farming to be ‘decolonised’ with ‘inclusive spaces’.

It also shared a report arguing perfectionism is an example of ‘white supremacy culture’.

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🚨 NEW: The Conservatives have announced that they would reverse the air conditioning ban put in place on new properties in 2021 by Robert Jenrick, while he was Housing Secretary.

His changes prioritised passive cooling methods like ventilation to meet net-zero targets.

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🚨 NEW: Nick Tenconi, of UKIP, says Restore and the Tories should not be splitting the vote in Makerfield:

‘Restore are currently making sure that the online right pumps out as much information that splitting the vote is not even a thing, which is so disingenuous, it's a lie.’