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Features

Concerns over donations to Bristol MPs are about more than just freebie Taylor Swift tickets

Local Labour MPs Darren Jones, Dan Norris and Damien Egan have taken donations from a range of sources, including pro-Israel lobby groups. Does that compromise their integrity in Parliament?

Explained: What is Labour’s new Employment Rights Bill, and what does it mean for Bristolians?

Could Bristol get its first Green MP? Inside the battle for Bristol Central

Area in Focus

As Labour and the Greens battle it out, how do their policies stack up?

Labour and the Greens are likely to be the two largest parties after Bristol’s local elections on 2 May, so we decided to delve beneath the rhetoric to see what they’d actually change.

Local Elections 2021

Labour infighting makes its path back to a Bristol council majority even harder

Local Elections 2021

‘Be open about developments’: Housing could be the issue that sways the election in Lockleaze

Bristol councillor launches attack on the Labour group after quitting party

A Bristol councillor describes the Labour party as being “focused on power for power’s sake and beset with a culture of fear and bullying”

The latest struggle within the Labour party matters to everyone

In a city with four Labour MPs, the internal processes of the party will shape our politics.

Bristol’s Chilcot campaigners have work to do

Thirteen years ago more than a million activists gathered in central London to resist the invasion of Iraq, yet despite the sheer volume of the outcry, it fell upon deaf ears. Now, after more than a decade, we have the Chilcot Inquiry report on the war.

Avonmouth: have parties failed working class voters?

Alon Aviram Additional work by: Adam Cantwell-Corn Illustration: Sam Knock Is there a growing faultline between working class voters and the Labour party? From trade-unions...