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Thursday briefing: How parties will fare at the local elections – and where they go from here

In today’s newsletter: Will the Tories tank? Will Labour really gain? Here’s a guide to make sense of the local elections, and what it means for the next general elections

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Gove and Hunt, beware: true-blue Surrey is ready to turf out the Tories – and you’re next

An avalanche is coming. The voters I met are abandoning the Conservatives over lying, cheating and Brexit, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The royal family: an expensive burden or worth the cost of a coffee each?

Letters: Readers outline the costs and consequences of the country having a hereditary monarchy

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For something so hollow, the royal family is astonishingly expensive

The trouble with the monarchy is not that it is too powerful but that it is utterly useless, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Sunak cares nothing for the 99% – and after his pensions hike for the rich, they know it

The PM and his chancellor thought they could hide the greed in plain sight, but focus groups show voters are aware – and angry, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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A pay rise for NHS staff was inevitable. The government’s delay has caused irreparable damage

From longer waiting lists to discouraging nursing applicants, the costs are huge, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Tories could raise billions in this budget and not spook the markets – but they haven’t got the guts

Rational reforms of our wildly unjust tax system could harvest huge sums, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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If Starmer wants a defining policy for government, this is it: childcare, childcare, childcare

Pen Green nursery’s plight shows why Labour again needs the radicalism of Sure Start, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Council’s role in restoring gothic Toynbee fountain in Wimbledon

Letter: The deputy leader of Merton council, Eleanor Stringer, responds to Polly Toynbee’s claim that local authorities have been ‘far from cooperative’ in such heritage projects

The Guardian - UK

How a monument to my great-great-grandfather could help tackle the scourge of plastic pollution

A newly restored drinking fountain commemorates my ancestor. We need more to tackle the horror of so many discarded bottles, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

On Rishi Sunak’s awayday from hell, team-building exercises are the least of the Tories’ problems

The prime minister is boosting MPs’ morale with a pub quiz. Name three things the government has improved since 2010, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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At last, a protocol deal, but we are no further away from Brexit’s poisonous legacy

The calamity of an EU-UK trade war might now be avoided. But Britain remains as damaged as ever, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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A plea against factionalism in Labour

Letters: Dr Ian Saville responds to Polly Toynbee’s statement that ‘a party can’t be a little bit racist’

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Please stop blaming baby boomers for the woes of today’s younger generations

Letters: Responses to Polly Toynbee’s piece on intergenerational inequality from Nick Moss, Marilyn Sandy, Peter Riddle and Tom Cannon

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Keir Starmer’s five missions reveal a man serious about being prime minister

We are seeing a leader emerge who is committed to the long-term work of fixing broken Britain, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Here’s the true legacy of Boris Johnson: dishonesty is standard, the Commons has lost sight of the truth

He had no regard for truthfulness, and now we see others happy to follow his example, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Starmer is right to stop Corbyn standing for Labour at the next election – but he mustn’t purge dissent

As Labour leaves special measures imposed to tackle antisemitism, it must move on: but in a way that embraces wide debate, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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My generation is sucking Britain’s young people dry. Why are politicians too scared to admit it?

The social contract between young and old is broken and inequality is out of control. The government must step in, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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No plan, no exit strategy: the UK government is losing face on strikes – and millions of votes

While local pay bodies are settling with striking workers, Tory ministers are refusing to back down, and will pay the price, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The ‘leftwing economic establishment’ did not bring Liz Truss down. Reality did

The former PM’s confidence in her ‘small state’ formula remains undented. And her flailing party is all-too ready to share in the delusion, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days?

Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raft, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret

Most people are now in favour of rejoining the EU, but Labour is right to steer clear of another row over Europe, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Britain lavishes benefits on plenty of rich pensioners. Let’s means test them now

Bumping the state pension age up to 68 will do little to help those who are so poor, they won’t even reach that age, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Keir Starmer’s private prescription for the NHS is dangerous

Letters: David Hinchcliffe says using the private sector for NHS patients directly undermines the service. Plus letters from Jeanne Warren, Dr John Puntis and Johnbosco Nwogbo

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Zahawi, Sunak, Johnson: this is rule by plutocrat. It’s like a stench that’s worse each day

The Tory chairman’s £5m tax ‘error’ shows the murkiness of politics run by and for the super-rich, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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