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Conservative MP Peter Bone in Westminster, London, September 2019
RISHI SUNAK’S by-election troubles look set to continue next month with the starting gun fired for contests in Wellingborough and Kingswood.
The polls, probably to take place on February 15, are both in Tory-held seats, but the government is likely to retain neither.
The Wellingborough election follows the suspension of sitting MP Peter Bone from the Commons over bullying and sexual misconduct after more than 10 per cent of voters petitioned to recall him.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT