NEW: Over 100 peers have called on Keir Starmer to introduce legislation next month to outlaw Slapps Baroness Hodge, Starmer's own anti-corruption champion, is among those demanding anti-SLAPP measures in King's Speech www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

🟢 EXC: The Greens have been in informal talks with Labour MPs about possible defections The Telegraph has learnt that at least 1 Labour MP has been approached by Labour Party whips within the past month over concerns they could defect to the Greens www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Families of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire urge ministers to save part of a staircase wall that bears a set of handprints They were promised bits of the building important to the community would be preserved but now fear the Govt is going back on its word www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ccb6354...

Don’t demolish haunting Grenfell wall, bereaved families urge ministers

Campaigners fear Government will break promise to preserve part of tower stairwell with handprints which ‘hold the voices of that night’

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Tory councils help Labour deny millions a vote in local elections Ministers admit that the new unitary councils are not expected to be up and running until 2028 at the earliest, leaving some voters under the same council for at least 7 years. w/Nick Gutteridge www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d99d35a...

4.5m people denied vote as more polls axed

Two major Tory-controlled councils among dozens given permission by the Government to delay local elections

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