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A man erects a polling station sign during the 2026 local elections directing voters to a portable cabin located in Armitage Road, in Greenwich, May 7, 2026
CWU Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
CWU conference agrees motion rejecting first-past-the-post system
10 May 2026
A bridge struck by U.S. airstrikes on Thursday is seen in the town of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran, April 3, 2026
CWU Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
CWU delegates condemn Iran war
10 May 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks to supporters at Chelmsford City Racecourse, Essex, following the 2026 local election results, May 8, 2026
CWU Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
CWU delegates fear current anti-racist strategy is ‘alienating working-class people’
10 May 2026
Health Secretary Wes Streeting looks on as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer takes questions from the media during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025
Labour Party / 10 May 2026
Stop Streeting, left MPs urge
10 May 2026
A Capita sign outside their offices in Bournemouth, Dorset
CWU Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
Britain an outsourcing ‘outlier’
10 May 2026
First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney speaking during a press conference at Grassmarket Apex Hotel, Edinburgh, following the 2026 Holyrood elections, May 9, 2026
Scotland / 10 May 2026
Swinney says Scotland needs to decide its own future and make the country ‘fully Farage-proofed’
10 May 2026
Photo: Troy Walker
Britain / 10 May 2026
Equity donates £7,200 to Durham Pride after Reform council cuts
10 May 2026
People, along with a fifteen-foot dinosaur mascot Chuck the Rexi, take part in a march by anti-monarchy pressure group Republic, from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace in central London, May 9, 2026
Royal Family / 10 May 2026
Protesters march against the monarchy
10 May 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks to supporters at Chelmsford City Racecourse, Essex, following the 2026 local election results, May 8, 2026
Equity Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
Farage would make Thatcher's union attacks ‘look like small fry,’ warns Equity
10 May 2026
Equity flag. Photo: Equity
Equity Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
West End producers face losing hundreds of thousands of pounds a day, warns Equity chief as strike ballot closes
10 May 2026
Daniel Kebede, the General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), joins a picket line at Regent High School in north west London, July 5, 2023
Education / 10 May 2026
NEU moves towards formal strike ballot over pay and school funding
10 May 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall in Ealing, west London, May 8, 2026
Labour Party / 10 May 2026
Labour vote disintegrates nationwide
10 May 2026
A count agent for the Welsh Labour party ahead of the count for the 2026 Senedd elections at The Arena, Venue Cymru, Llandudno, May 8, 2026
Wales / 10 May 2026
Welsh Labour gets skates on after collapse
10 May 2026
Paul W Fleming. Photo: Equity UK
Equity Conference 2026 / 10 May 2026
Starmer ‘disproportionately to blame’ for Reform's election wins, says Equity union leader
10 May 2026
Leader of Plaid Cymru, Rhun ap Iorwerth, and his wife, Llinos, arrive at the counting centre for the 2026 Senedd elections at The Arena, Venue Cymru, in Llandudno. Picture date: Friday May 8, 2026
Wales / 8 May 2026
Plaid Cymru on course to win Senedd election in a political earthquake
8 May 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall in Ealing, west London, May 8, 2026
Britain / 8 May 2026
Quit or Labour will die, MPs and unions tell Starmer
8 May 2026

PM told to go after disastrous election results

First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney with party supporters, at the election count for the 2026 Holyrood elections, at Dewars Centre in Perth, May 8, 2026
Scotland / 8 May 2026
Sarwar blames Starmer as SNP on course for fifth win
8 May 2026
Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ben Jamal, April 1, 2026
Britain / 8 May 2026
Ben Jamal resigns as PSC director
8 May 2026
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Bectu who work at STV on the picket line outside their offices in Glasgow, May 8, 2026
Scotland / 8 May 2026
STV journalists and staff strike on day of Holyrood election counts
8 May 2026
Strikes against ‘savage’ NHS workforce cull ends with legal action warning
Healthcare / 8 May 2026
Strikes against ‘savage’ NHS workforce cull ends with legal action warning
8 May 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a visit to Havering Town Hall in Romford, following the 2026 local election results, May 8, 2026
Local elections / 8 May 2026
Voting spells the end of two-party politics
8 May 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) and Reform UK leader in Wales Dan Thomas at the Reform UK manifesto launch for the Senedd elections in May, at the International Convention Centre Wales in Newport, March 5, 2026
Britain / 8 May 2026
Welsh communists react to the rise of the far right in Wales
8 May 2026
Equity flag. Photo: Equity
Britain / 8 May 2026
Durham Pride organisers sign Equity agreement after Reform council cuts
8 May 2026
South East Water customers collect bottled water at a water station in East Grinstead, after bad weather was blamed for more water outages in Kent and parts of Sussex, January 13, 2026
Water companies / 8 May 2026
South East Water boss to step down a week after chairman following damning report by MPs
8 May 2026
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally at Old Palace Yard, in Westminster, London, January 29, 2025
Education / 8 May 2026
Sixth form teachers secure protected PPA time as part of 2025/26 pay negotiations
8 May 2026
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow's George Square, in a counter protest to a far-right rally, September 7, 2024
Scotland / 8 May 2026
Thousands to march against Reform’s Holyrood gains
8 May 2026
The verification of votes begins for the 2026 Senedd elections at The Arena, Venue Cymru, Llandudno, May 8, 2026
Wales / 8 May 2026
Privateer's mistake costs 1,300 Cardiff voters their postal vote
8 May 2026
Palestinians gather around a vehicle struck by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2026
Britain / 8 May 2026
Campaigners slam government decision to grant export licences for military equipment headed for Israel
8 May 2026
Fossil Free London
Climate Crisis / 7 May 2026
‘It’s time to break free from the fossil fuel doom loop’
7 May 2026

Labour urged to close energy tax loopholes as Shell reports ‘obscene’ £5bn profits thanks to Iran war

Painted damaged sign of Barclays Bank at their Castle Place branch in Belfast
Britain / 7 May 2026
Palestine activists disrupt Barclays AGM
7 May 2026
General view of a Super Dry store in London
Britain / 7 May 2026
Superdry co-founder jailed for eight years for raping woman at her home
7 May 2026
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer arrive to cast their votes in the local elections at Westminster Chapel in central London, May 7, 2026
Local elections / 8 May 2026
Labour orders activists to avoid weeping on TV
8 May 2026
Heavy traffic heading northbound on the M5 Motorway in Somerset, April 6, 2026
Energy / 7 May 2026
Lower speed limits and boost windfall energy tax to mitigate £8bn Iran war cost, IPPR says
7 May 2026
Britain / 7 May 2026
British Islamic State-linked families could return from Syrian camps
7 May 2026
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship, RFA Stirling Castle, in Leith, April 11, 2024
Britain / 7 May 2026
Royal Fleet Auxiliary to begin strike action
7 May 2026
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 7 May 2026
Charity publishes manifesto to tackle Wales’s ‘clear and escalating’ accidental deaths crisis
7 May 2026
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speaking outside New Scotland Yard in London, October 15, 2025
Britain / 7 May 2026
Palestine campaigners issue formal complaint against Met Police chief
7 May 2026
Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking during a press conference at Novotel, Glasgow, ahead of the upcoming Holyrood election, April 24, 2026
Britain / 7 May 2026
Polling suggests while nearly two-thirds of the public believe antisemitism is a serious issue, the Green Party is not seen as having the biggest problem
7 May 2026
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) flag flying at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station in Aberdeenshire
Britain / 7 May 2026
RNLI warned not to leave workers ‘high and dry’ as it confirms closure of Isle of Wight site
7 May 2026
Kerr charity cycle
Cycling / 7 May 2026
The Morning Star’s Scotland reporter sets off on 500-mile bike ride in support of CWU Humanitarian Aid
7 May 2026
Harrods owner Mohamed al Fayed, December 14, 2006
Britain / 7 May 2026
Met Police officers investigated over handling of Mohamed Al-Fayed complaints
7 May 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood during a meeting with representatives from criminal justice agencies at number 10 Downing Street, Westminster, following a terror attack in Golders Green, April 30, 2026
Human Rights / 6 May 2026
Sudanese torture victims launch legal challenge to Home Office bid to scrap refugee rights
6 May 2026
First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader John Swinney during a visit to Rouken Glen Garden Centre in Glasgow, on the last day of campaigning ahead of the Holyrood elections on Thursday, May 6, 2026
Holyrood Election / 6 May 2026
SNP predicted to ‘gobble up’ seats but ‘odds against’ winning overall majority
6 May 2026
A protester is bundled out of....
Fossil Fuels / 6 May 2026
Aviva shareholders disrupt AGM in protest over Gaza, migrants and fossil fuel extraction
6 May 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer helps out in the call centre at Labour Party headquarters in London, on the last day of campaigning ahead of the elections on Thursday, May 6, 2026
Politics / 6 May 2026
Labour facing election doomsday
6 May 2026

Meanwhile, far-right Reform UK projected to gain around 1,550 representatives

Reform UK Scottish leader Lord Malcolm Offord speaks to the media outside Trinity Church in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, on the campaign trail for the May 7 Holyrood election, May 5, 2026
Holyrood Election / 6 May 2026
SNP and Labour round on Reform
6 May 2026
Reform UK leader in Wales Dan Thomas speaking during a rally in Merthyr Tydfil, ahead of the May 7 Senedd election, May 5, 2026
Workers' Rights / 6 May 2026
Public sector workers warned Reform poses ‘significant’ risk to their futures
6 May 2026
Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh, after the controversial Equinor Rosebank North Sea oil field was given the go-ahead, September 30, 2023
Holyrood Elections / 6 May 2026
Scottish Greens claim only they tell the truth on new oil and gas
6 May 2026
Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh, after the controversial Equinor Rosebank North Sea oil field was given the go-ahead, September 30, 2023
Climate Crisis / 6 May 2026
Britain’s biggest gas supplier reveals Iran war-driven £7.2bn quarterly profits as average bills set to rise
6 May 2026
Jordan Linden leaves Falkirk Sheriff Court, May 5, 2026
Scotland / 6 May 2026
Former SNP council leader Jordan Linden jailed for 18 months for multiple sex offences
6 May 2026
Fossil Free London campaigners protest outside Shell’s London headquarters against its giant profits from the Iran war [Pic: Fossil Free London]
Fossil Fuel / 6 May 2026
Fossil Free London pours fake blood outside Shell offices as it ‘makes a killing’ from the Iran war
6 May 2026
NHS / 6 May 2026
Welsh health board director urged to resign as Unite announces more strikes
6 May 2026
Workers' Rights / 6 May 2026
Scotland's busiest airports face summer of strikes, warns Unite
6 May 2026
Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking at the launch of the Wales Green Party election campaign at West Canal Wharf in Cardiff, March 31, 2026
Politics / 6 May 2026
Labour and Tories unite Against Polanski
6 May 2026
Supporters outside Woolwich Crown Court, London, where Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani and Zoe Rogers are facing a retrial, April 23, 2026
Britain / 5 May 2026
Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage over factory raid
5 May 2026
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Economy / 6 May 2026
Unions call for ‘common sense’ bank windfall tax increase
6 May 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and education, skills and equality spokesperson for Reform UK Suella Braverman during a walkabout in Waterlooville, Hampshire, whilst on the campaign trail for the upcoming local elections, May 1, 2026
Britain / 5 May 2026
Pay equality could be set back years under Reform's local government plans, warns Unison
5 May 2026
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, during a visit to Bathgate, while campaigning for the upcoming Holyrood election, May 4, 2026
Scotland / 5 May 2026
Vote Labour to ‘save our NHS’, says Sarwar
5 May 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a meeting of senior figures from across public life in number 10 Downing Street, Westminster, to drive forward a
Britain / 5 May 2026
Starmer calls summit to deal with antisemitism
5 May 2026
A Google logo on the screen of a mobile phone, in London. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Technology / 5 May 2026
Google DeepMind workers launch union recognition bid amid concerns AI tools enabling Gaza genocide
5 May 2026