Analilia Mejia's win with a nearly 20-point margin over Hathaway is significant, indicating strong voter support for Democrats in the current political climate.
Opponents of the idea claim that any expansion of eligibility for national service-style schemes to older age groups would represent a significant shift in defence policy and could raise practical and ethical questions about fitness, capability and operational effectiveness.
Daisy Cooper urged the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate Nigel Farage over his involvement with bitcoin treasury firm Stack BTC, following a promotional video where Farage executed a £2 million bitcoin purchase on its behalf.
Around 5,000 seats across 136 local councils will now be up for grabs, following the government's U-turn on council election delays. Ministers had granted 30 authorities permission to delay elections until May 2027 - including five areas where polls had already been put back from May 2025. But in February, the government said those elections would go ahead in May this year, following legal advice in the wake of a challenge from Reform UK.
Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said there was a clear case in principle that what we've seen in the past couple of years is a historically unprecedented dual negative shift in sentiment on immigration.
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