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Keir Starmer should step aside in favour of a caretaker prime minister who would run the country until a leadership contest is held in the summer, Labour MPs have argued. Despairing Government backbenchers argue that unless the Prime Minister quits over the Peter Mandelson crisis, the party is heading for disaster at the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month – followed by annihilation in May’s local elections. They hope the Cabinet will this week persuade Sir Keir to quit and allow a ‘non-contentious’ candidate such as Defence Secretary John Healey or Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn to be a...

Journalists Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi revealed internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) planning to “kill Musk’s Twitter.” CCDH also hopes to strengthen ties with VP Kamala Harris and other Democrats. CCDH’s founder, Morgan McSweeney, is already advising Harris’s campaign. “Our mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online,” according to CCDH’s website. “Social media companies erode basic human rights and civil liberties by enabling the spread of online hate and disinformation.” In other words, CCDG wants censorship. Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd 2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective...

Sir Keir Starmer is unlikely to meet Kamala Harris before the US presidential election in 12 days' time, Downing Street has indicated. The prime minister met Republican nominee Donald Trump in New York last month, and suggested he wanted to do the same with Democrat Harris. But Sir Keir is now in Samoa for a Commonwealth leaders' summit, as the US campaign enters its final stage before the poll on 5 November. In recent days, there have been tensions between the Labour Party and the Trump campaign over Labour staffers who volunteered to campaign for Harris. The Trump team have...