Polanski heckled at Jewish community hustings after saying that Zionism is a form of racism – UK politics live

The Green leader, who is Jewish, made the remarks as part of his campaign in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection

The communications and governance director of Glasgow city council has said it was in a hellish situation" as he blamed Unison for a decision to force workers onto new contracts, which involves the fire and rehire 23,000 workers across the city and about 11% of staff seeing their wages cut.

PA Media reports Colin Edgar said It's extremely difficult. We haven't taken this decision lightly. We absolutely do not want to do this. Two of our trade unions were together with us on a plan to not do this. One of them was not."