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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Lancs,Greater Manchester,town,centre,local,election,elections,councillors,UK,Kier Starmer,unpopular,on doorsteps,2026,May,gable end,politics,British,government,results,gains,change,northern,red wall,former,heartland,decline,voter,disillusionment,anti-establishment,vote,right-wing,populism,far-right,Nigel Farage,backlash,regeneration,borough
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EE4M53 - Editorial photograph of a colourful Hello Wigan community mural painted on a brick gable end beside an outdoor bar seating area in Wigan town centre, Greater Manchester. The image shows local street art, red café chairs, a fenced terrace, painted flowers and the large word WIGAN, making it useful for stories about northern towns, civic identity, hospitality, nightlife, independent bars, urban regeneration, public art and changing high streets. The picture also has strong current-affairs relevance after the May 2026 Wigan Council local elections, when Reform UK made major gains across the borough while Labour suffered heavy losses in the seats being contested. Available reporting and election summaries indicate that Labour was badly hit, but also that Labour still retained overall control of Wigan Council after the vote, so the image should be captioned cautiously rather than saying Reform UK became the council's new leadership. The scene can illustrate a former Labour heartland reacting to a sharp local political shift, voter disillusionment, the decline of long-established party loyalties, right-wing populism, anti-establishment voting, and national pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer following poor Labour local election results. The mural's welcoming wording creates a striking contrast with the harder political story of a borough where Reform UK support surged in May 2026. It is suitable for editorial use on Wigan, Leigh, Greater Manchester politics, the 2026 local elections, Labour losses, Reform UK gains, town-centre culture, community art, northern identity, civic pride, working-class towns, post-industrial communities, social change, pubs, bars, beer gardens and the relationship between local place branding and national political mood. The visible fresh green leaves suggest spring or early summer, with bright daylight and a changeable northern sky.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DX14M3 - A Reform UK campaign placard staked into a front garden in Denton, Greater Manchester, promoting the candidate Matt Goodwin and urging support in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election. The turquoise sign is clearly readable, carrying the slogan I'm voting MATT GOODWIN and the date 26th February, alongside the circular Reform UK logo. Behind the sign sits a typical red brick suburban home with a bay window and low garden planting, placing the campaign message firmly in the everyday domestic setting where much UK electioneering is seen at street level. Shot in late winter, the shrubs and hedging look seasonal and subdued, with daylight that suggests cool conditions and changeable skies. The image works as a strong editorial illustration of modern British politics, local campaigning, and voter persuasion, showing how parties use simple, highly legible branding and date specific messaging to signal support and visibility in residential neighbourhoods. It also documents the visual language of a contemporary UK by-election, including typography, slogans, party identity, and the use of private garden space as a platform for public political expression.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EDKYYY - A UK polling station entrance is shown inside a public building, with clear election notices giving opening times of 7.00am to 10.00pm, a Way Out arrow, guidance for tellers and a warning sign saying not to use mobile phones. The image is a useful editorial stock photograph for stories about local elections, parliamentary elections, polling day, voter information, electoral administration, democracy, civic participation and the practical process of voting in person. The Electoral Commission says voters must go to their allocated polling station, usually shown on their poll card, and GOV.UK also explains that people can only vote at the polling station location on their card, although they do not need to take the card with them. The visible opening-times notice reflects the standard UK polling hours of 7am to 10pm, with voters already in a queue at 10pm normally still entitled to vote. The image can illustrate the ordinary, functional nature of British elections, where schools, community halls, libraries and other local buildings are temporarily turned into polling places. It is commercially useful for articles on election day, local councils, general elections, voter ID, turnout, democracy, polling station staffing, tellers, campaign volunteers, ballot secrecy, mobile phone restrictions, accessibility and public trust in the electoral process. The signs also show the controlled environment around voting, with information for voters and campaign tellers, privacy expectations and directional signage helping people move through the station. As a documentary stock image, it records the practical infrastructure of democracy rather than party politics, making it suitable for neutral coverage of voting rules, election administration, democratic participation and public service delivery.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K9BHTY - An independent Scotland's economy
Scotland is well-placed to become an independent country, with its own devolved parliament, government and institutions already in place.
An independent Scotland would have full control over tax and spending (fiscal policy) so that decisions about the economy would be based on what's best for Scotland.
With full economic powers, future Scottish Governments could develop policies that strengthen the economy and make Scotland better placed to respond to global challenges.
Scotland's fiscal policy would be supported by its own independent institutions like the Scottish Fiscal Commission and an independent Scottish Central Bank and Debt Management Office.
Read more detail in the economy paper.
Currency
As soon as practicable, Scotland would move to its own independent currency, the Scottish pound.
Until then, the pound sterling would remain Scotland's currency. This would provide continuity for people and businesses.
In that initial phase people who live in Scotland would continue to be paid in sterling, get their pensions in sterling and buy goods and services in sterling. Businesses would continue to trade in sterling.
A new, independent Scottish Central Bank would advise on when the Scottish pound should be introduced, with the final decision made by the Scottish Parliament.
After the introduction of the Scottish pound, the Scottish Central Bank's role would expand to manage the new currency. The Bank's role would be focused on ensuring financial stability.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE357 - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
19831997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton and Stretton, Booths Hill, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Heatley, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Statham, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy, and the Borough of Halton wards of Daresbury and Norton.
19972010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Stretton and Hatton, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Howley and Whitecross, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy.
2010present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East, Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Whittle Hall.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE369 - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
19831997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton and Stretton, Booths Hill, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Heatley, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Statham, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy, and the Borough of Halton wards of Daresbury and Norton.
19972010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Stretton and Hatton, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Howley and Whitecross, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy.
2010present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East, Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Whittle Hall.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE41Y - Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Faisal Rashid, a Labour Party politician.
The seat is one of seven won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 11 in Cheshire. Rashid's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 7.5% of the vote since the 16.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice since that year.
19831997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton and Stretton, Booths Hill, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Heatley, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Statham, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy, and the Borough of Halton wards of Daresbury and Norton.
19972010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Stretton and Hatton, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Howley and Whitecross, Latchford, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Walton and Westy.
2010present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East, Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, and Whittle Hall.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPY - A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections.
The phrase polling station is also used in American English and in British English, although polling place is the building and polling station is the specific room (or part of a room) where voters cast their votes. A polling place can contain one or more polling stations.
Since elections generally take place over a one- or two-day span on a periodic basis, often annual or longer, polling places are usually located in facilities used for other purposes, such as schools, churches, sports halls, local government offices, or even private homes, and may each serve a similar number of people. The area may be known as a ward, precinct, polling district or constituency. The polling place is staffed by officials (who may be called election judges, returning officers or other titles) who monitor the voting procedures and assist voters with the election process. Scrutineers (or poll-watchers) are independent or partisan observers who attend the poll to ensure the impartiality of the process.
The word poll means scalp or head. When votes were taken by gathering people together and counting heads, the place where this was done (sometimes an open field) was called the polls
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPM - George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born Gideon Oliver Osborne
23 May 1971) is a British newspaper editor and former Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2016. He has been editor of the London Evening Standard since May 2017 and chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) since September 2016.
Osborne worked briefly as a freelancer for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and becoming head of its political section. He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.
Osborne was elected as MP for Tatton in 2001, becoming the youngest Conservative member of the House of Commons.
As Chancellor, Osborne pursued austerity policies aimed at reducing the budget deficit and launched the Northern Powerhouse initiative. After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State. During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party
one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.
Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, & returned to the backbenches. He became editor of the Evening Standard
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RPR - George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born Gideon Oliver Osborne
23 May 1971) is a British newspaper editor and former Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2016. He has been editor of the London Evening Standard since May 2017 and chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) since September 2016.
Osborne worked briefly as a freelancer for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and becoming head of its political section. He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.
Osborne was elected as MP for Tatton in 2001, becoming the youngest Conservative member of the House of Commons.
As Chancellor, Osborne pursued austerity policies aimed at reducing the budget deficit and launched the Northern Powerhouse initiative. After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State. During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party
one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.
Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, & returned to the backbenches. He became editor of the Evening Standard
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA0RXG - Unison, stylised as UNISON, is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom with almost 1.4 million members.
The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO), the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) merged.
UNISON's current general secretary is Dave Prentis. He was elected on 28 February 2000 and took up the post on 1 January 2001.
Members of UNISON are typically from industries within the public sector and generally cover both full-time and part-time support and administrative staff. The majority of people joining UNISON are workers within sectors such as local government, education, the National Health Service Registered Nurses, NHS Managers and Clinical Support Workers. The union also admits ancillary staff such as Health Care Assistants and Assistant Practitioners, including Allied Health Professionals. Probation services, police services, utilities (such as gas, electricity and water), and transport. These 'Service Groups' all have their own national and regional democratic structures within UNISON's constitution.
As a trade union, UNISON provides support to members on work related issues, including protection and representation at work, help with pay and conditions of service and legal advice. Each company or organisation will usually be represented by a particular UNISON branch and members within that organisation elect volunteer stewards to represent them. The stewards receive training in workplace issues and are then able to co-ordinate and represent members both on an individual basis and collectively
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AA5PDP - Mostyn Neil Hamilton, AM (born 9 March 1949) is a British politician, non-practising barrister, and former teacher. He has served as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales region since 2016
he was previously Conservative MP for the Tatton constituency from 1983 to 1997.
After being implicated (alongside Tim Smith) in the cash-for-questions affair, Hamilton became widely associated with sleaze
he was defeated in the 1997 general election, and subsequently left politics. His wife Christine and he went on to become media celebrities. He left the Conservative Party in 2002, and joined UKIP. He was elected to the National Executive Committee of UKIP in 2011. Following his election to the National Assembly for Wales, he served as UKIP Assembly Group Leader between 2016 and 2018, and has served as Leader of UKIP Wales since 26 September 2016.
In April 2019, Hamilton was the UKIP candidate in the by-election for Newport West. He was third behind the Labour and Conservative candidates with 2,023 votes.
On 20 October 1994, The Guardian published an article which claimed that Hamilton and another minister, Tim Smith, had received money, in the form of cash in brown envelopes. It claimed the money was paid to the men by Mohamed Al-Fayed, the owner of Harrods. In return, the men were to ask questions on behalf of Al-Fayed in the House of Commons. Smith admitted his guilt and resigned immediately. Hamilton claimed innocence but was forced to resign five days later, on 25 October 1994 @HotpixUK
