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Good evening. Labour voters in Rochdale should spoil their ballots after the party’s candidate was axed in an anti-Semitism row, Wes Streeting has suggested.
Elsewhere, Alexei Navalny’s widow has accused the Russian authorities of blocking the family from seeing his body in order to conceal the way he was killed.
I’d spoil my ballot if I was voting in Rochdale, says ‘ashamed’ Wes Streeting
Labour voters in Rochdale should spoil their ballots after the party’s candidate was axed in an anti-Semitism row, Wes Streeting has suggested.
Mr Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said he was “sorry and ashamed” that people in the Greater Manchester town will not be able to back Labour in the forthcoming by-election.
Alexei Navalny’s widow has promised to reveal how Vladimir Putin killed her husband as she pledged to take over her husband’s work.
Yulia Navalnaya accused the Russian authorities of blocking the family from seeing his body in order to conceal the way he was killed.
Post Office chair was being investigated for bullying, says Kemi Badenoch
The former chairman of the Post Office was being investigated for bullying, Kemi Badenoch has told the Commons.
The Business Secretary accused Mr Staunton of lying after he claimed in an interview that he had been told by a senior government official to slow down the payment of compensation for sub-postmasters to allow the Tories to “limp into” the next election.
Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
Labour | Shadow environment secretary Steve Reed has vowed to ‘eliminate’ fox hunting and promised to close ‘loopholes’ in the ban to prevent hounds killing pets or livestock.
Comment and analysis
Tom Harris | Spineless Starmer would sell British foreign policy to the largest voting blocs
Ross Clark | End the insanity of dangerous ‘smart’ motorways
Josephine Bartosch | The NHS has put appeasing the trans cult ahead of children’s health
Michael Murphy | Mass immigration is bringing a European-style populist revolt to Ireland
Bryony Gordon | Esther Ghey is right: we must regulate hateful abuse online
World news: Moscow-appointed governors ‘poisoned’
Russia has accused Ukraine of poisoning two Moscow-appointed officials serving in annexed Ukrainian provinces.
Feature of the day
Cillian Murphy’s strange journey from jazz crooner to ‘the greatest actor of his generation’
The Bafta winner universally regarded as the sanest and most talented man in cinema lives a quiet, unstarry life. Is that about to change?
Business news: Slash rates or crush Britain’s economy, former Bank official warns
Britain’s recession will get worse unless the Bank of England cuts interest rates soon, the central bank’s former chief economist has warned.
Live markets news: French strikes force closure of Eiffel Tower – latest updates
Editor’s choice
Money | Are you rich?
Baftas | David Tennant’s Bafta looks were a masterclass in flamboyant dressing for men
Travel | ‘My French expat dream was sullied by villainous locals’
Sport briefing: Today’s essential headlines
Football | Oliver Glasner the new Crystal Palace manager as Roy Hodgson steps down
Cricket | What our experts would change about the review system
Gareth Davies | Rugby’s biggest names think Alred is a genius – and so do I after 30 seconds
Brian Moore | What must England do to beat Scotland?
Sir Geoffrey Boycott | Cocky England must park their egos and back up their words with action
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Property | ‘I was drowning in stuff – how I learned to let go and declutter’
Careers | The ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees that could damage your prospects
Saudi Arabia | ‘My eye-opening trip suggests the country isn’t quite ready for mass tourism’
