local elections

The former MP who quit over Brexit once branded Boris Johnson a "compulsive liar".
After months of attacking Boris Johnson over partygate, the Labour leader faces his own accusations of Covid rule-breaking.
Conservative candidates have put disclaimers on their leaflets pleading with the public not to “punish” them for “mistakes made in Westminster”.
Tory chairman Oliver Dowden claimed Starmer was standing down candidates "in swathes of the country" where Lib Dem support is strong.
Jonathan Ashworth says the system has become too focused on punishing people rather than finding them the best job.
Everything you need to know after "super Thursday".
The Labour leader is under fire after removing his deputy Angela Rayner from a key role - but allies insist she was not sacked.
Good Law Project raises concern over misuse of “Build Back Better”, which is being deployed in videos bearing Downing Street crest.
Arj Singh, Paul Waugh and Rachel Wearmouth are joined by Tory peer and polling expert Lord Robert Hayward to discuss whether the success of the rollout compared to the EU’s haphazard jabbing programme could help the Tories at the ballot box, what the by-election in Hartlepool means for Labour, and how the infighting in the SNP might affect their Holyrood seats and calls for a second independence referendum.
But government faces demands to extend the right unilaterally beyond next year.