Mark Pack

Conservatives Lose Overall Majority on North Yorkshire Council Opposition councillors say a “new political landscape” is emerging in North Yorkshire after the Conservative-led group on the unitary authority lost its majority.

Conservatives Lose Overall Majority on North Yorkshire Council (but still have a casting vote) - This is the Coast share.google/gtIXEs8CUj3R...

Fix Britain's Trade Liberal Democrats want to turbocharge our economy by forming a Customs Union with the EU, tearing down the trade barriers and red tape holding us back.

Fix Britain's Trade: sign the petition to gets us a Customs Union with the EU

That's a more mixed picture, with variations between the pollsters, so no one simple answer (as yet - it may become clearer if the trend continues and grows).

And also: bsky.app/profile/elec...

Change in Reform rating between latest and previous poll from each pollster in recent polls:

YouGov -2
Opinium -1
Find Out Now -1
Focaldata -2
More in Common -1
Lord Ashcroft -3
Freshwater -3
JL Partners -1
Ipsos -1

This is starting to look like a trend...

The core point is about it being a simpler, more focused initial step - and so one that's got a greater chance of being achieved as a step on the road to fixing our relations with the rest of Europe.

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows

Is Miliband doing a series explaining the VAT rules to us all?

Reminder: some Christmas gifts for your political friends Christmas, birthday, wedding, graduation, driving test pass, citizenship acquisition or candidate selection victory gift ideas.

Reminder: some Christmas gifts for your political friends

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue Lib Dem leader Ed Davey reacts to the conviction of Nathan Gill, former Welsh Leader of Reform UK, for taking pro-Russia bribes.

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue

I love the fact that this could either be completely serious or fully satirical.

Did The Times fall for a bit of crude spinning from Wes Streeting's department? The DHSC pulling the wool over the eyes of The Times is certainly one explanation for what happened...

Questions for both The Times and Department of Health over resident doctors poll Welcome to the 188th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which returns to the curious story about a poll of resident doctors that ran in The Times. There’s more news, and more questions, about what…

Questions for both The Times and Department of Health over resident doctors poll buff.ly/FyK7qJh

Donald Trump expects Ukrainians to be ‘grateful’ as he prepares a carve-up of the country with Putin.

We can’t let that happen - Starmer must work with our European allies to stop this stitch-up in its tracks.

I'm now wishing I'd kept my childhood comics...!

Tbf a later Katie Razzall piece was rather good, but if anything reinforces the point that divorcing headlines from explanation so heavily is not necessary; it's an editorial choice.

There was a great of example of this with the BBC news ticker recently about a BBC Board member resigning - with no information on why or what their views were, and (at least in the news bit that I watched) no accompanying story to explain the ticker either.

If you don't mind me asking, what's the reason you felt that in your own role you couldn't do more to give it extended coverage?

I've had a horrible realisation. I had seen the movie years ago, successfully removed it from my memory and now the podcast has started bringing back fragments of the film.

If it's some consolation, I love that you do (and you've got some money from me over the years as a result too!).

Reform UK councillor says frustration led to 'punch him' WhatsApp Peter Osborne, a Kent County Council cabinet member, says his WhatsApp message is not malicious.

Reform UK councillor says frustration led to 'punch him' WhatsApp

a person in a life jacket is riding a tube in a lake ALT: a person in a life jacket is riding a tube in a lake

Clue:

Oh and can you guess which party leader comes out with best net ratings for being trusted on economic and financial matters?

A mixed bag this book: highly opinionated author often lets strength of his views run well ahead of his evidence, but also strikes some very persuasive blows against the idea of a posh clique of incompetents being the story of much of MI5 and MI6 up against Russian moles.

It's not only factual errors that are an issue with Telegraph journalism. It's also the choice of what to leave out from a story.

Screenshot is from tomorrow's The Week in Polls, available from 6pm Sunday at theweekinpolls.substack.com

It's not only factual errors that are an issue with Telegraph journalism. It's also the choice of what to leave out from a story.

More of the country turning into Reform-Lib Dem contests Another pair of council by-elections showing how parts of the country are, at local level at least, turning into a new two-party system.

More of the country turning into Reform-Lib Dem contests

Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises

Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU

It's okay. The fans and players don't really understand what is going on either.