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Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave Strictly Come Dancing.

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Lucy Powell has been elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party, by 87,407 votes to 73,536. When Labour won the 2024 election, she became Leader of the House of Commons. In the major reshuffle that followed Angela Rayner's resignation in September, Powell was one of the few ministers to be sacked from government.

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Former leader of Reform UK Wales Nathan Gill has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison after being convicted of taking bribes from Oleg Voloshyn, a pro-Russian Ukrainian politican and ally of Vladimir Putin.

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Paul Doyle, who deliberately drove into a crowd of people at Liverpool FC's Premier League title parade on 26 May 2025, has been sentenced to 21 years and 6 months in prison.

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The National Executive Committee of the Labour Party have voted against allowing Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham to stand as a candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election.

The vote, which took place as Burnham required permission from the NEC to stand as a candidate after he declared his wish to contest the by-election was rejected by 8 votes to 1, with the chair of the NEC abstaining from the vote and Lisa Nandy, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party being the only member on the NEC to vote in support of Burnham.

Had Burnham been allowed to stand as the Labour candidate and subsequently won the by-election, he could've mounted a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister and potentially succeed him as the Prime Minister if he was successful in the leadership challenge.