Friday, February 27, 2026

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The Green Party has secured an historic win in the Gorton and Denton by-election in a huge blow to Sir Keir Starmer, victims are facing delays for justice as criminal cases take four years to go to trial, and Spain to check passports of Britons flying to Gibraltar under post-Brexit deal.

Top stories

1 | Starmer humiliated as Labour come third in crushing by-election defeat

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2 | Sean O'Grady: Broken Labour has been blown away by Zack Polanski's Green machine

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3 | Trump advisers 'would prefer Israel to bomb Iran first'

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4 | Mandelson referred to EU's anti-fraud agency after release of Epstein files

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5 | Esther Rantzen accuses peers of 'sabotage' as assisted dying bill looks set to fail

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Editors' picks

'A national disgrace': Readers fume over the UK's sewage crisis

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Meghan hugs mother of cancer patient on Jordan visit

STAT OF THE DAY

£50,000

Labour MP Chris Hinchliff is now in £50,000 worth of debt, £10,000 more than he owed at the time he graduated in 2015.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

""We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other."

Green MP Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

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