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Election results: Sir Keir Starmer to hold Labour reshuffle amid backlash over Angela Rayner sacking

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is to stage a frontbench reshuffle amid a row over the sacking of the party's chairman in the wake of dismal election results.
Election results: Polls serve up Boris Johnson a defining victory and threat of historic loss

This was a week of thousands of elections, from local councils to regional mayors and national parliaments.
Election results: Labour reshuffle - who could be on their way up and who could be on their way out?

The big Labour reshuffle of 2021 is finally under way.
Gove rejects indyref2 as Sturgeon says legal block to vote would be 'absurd and outrageous'

Michael Gove has dismissed a second referendum on Scottish independence as a "massive distraction" as he repeatedly refused to say whether the UK government will seek to block a possible vote in court.
COVID-19: Hugs set to return from 17 May as PM expected to outline next stage of lockdown easing

Boris Johnson is poised to announce that the next stage of lifting lockdown will go ahead as planned on 17 May, a cabinet minister has said.

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