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Campaigning for the Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections enters its final week as political leaders respond to the Golders Green stabbing, which is being treated as a terrorist incident. Attention has shifted from election rhetoric to national security and antisemitism, described by a government reviewer as a 'national security emergency'. Meanwhile, election forecaster Robert Hayward predicts Labour could lose 1,850 seats in England, with Reform Party emerging as the biggest gainer.
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7m ago04.06 EDTGood morning. We are now into the final week of campaigning for the Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd and English local elections. Keir Starmer had been planning a big speech today, but he, and other political leaders, are today focusing on their response to the Golders Green stabbing and the antisemitism threat facing Britain’s Jewish community – described by as “national security emergency” by Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation. Here is our overnight story. And here is our live blog by Taz Ali.Police treating stabbing of two men in Golders Green as terrorismRead moreTaz will be covering most of the political reaction to that story, and so that won’t be something I will be covering here.
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