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    Labour is being urged to form a pact with the Green Party to ensure the Tories do not win in a landslide come 8 June. Senior Labour figures, including former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis, musician Billy Bragg and ex-policy chief Jon Cruddas asked their party to stand aside in two seats where it has no realistic hope of winning, hoping the Greens would return the favour. The news comes after the Green Party pulled out of crucial election seats in Ealing and Brighton Kemptown to help Labour MP Rupa Huq beat the Conservatives. The two Labour seats at stake are in Brighton Pavilion, held by Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, and the Isle of Wight, where Tory MP Andrew Turner is standing down after reportedly railing against homosexuality to a group of A-level student...

    Twenty years ago today Britain celebrated an election victory which brought the sparkling hope of New Labour and the youngest Prime Minister in a century. It seemed anything was possible and, as the soundtrack to the party’s election campaign promised, things really could only get better. In today’s Daily Mirror Tony Blair marks the anniversary of his epic 1997 landslide victory over John Major with the extraordinary revelation he is returning to UK politics . For a man who sparked huge anger – revulsion even – over his decision to follow America into war in Iraq, it is a bold move. This Brexit thing has given me a direct motivation to get more involved in the politics, he passionately declares. You need to get your hands dirty and I will. Yes, he’s back. He sounds genuine...

    Former Prime Minister David Cameron has spent £25,000 on a luxury hut for his Cotswolds garden that he plans to use as a writing studio. Since leaving Downing Street, Cameron has undertaken a speaking tour in the US and has said he is spending his time rediscovering his love of game shooting. He is also writing a memoir of his years at Number 10. And now he has the perfect place to do it. Not your average garden shed, the hand-built hut comes complete with sheep’s wool insulation, a wood-burning stove, Bakelite light switches and hardwood stable doors. The Camerons chose to fit out the hut with a pull-out double sofa bed and have painted it in Farrow and Ball colours Clunch, Old White and Mouse’s Back. Cameron admitted that his wife Samantha made all of the design decision...