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21 Oct 2014: Has Labour’s housing review failed to recommend the very measures the capital most needs?
Earls Court: defining viability

16 Oct 2014: Boris Johnson waved through London’s most controversial regeneration scheme despite a report he co-commissioned questioning its low number of affordable homes
EU has one last chance to reform, says David Cameron

16 Oct 2014: Prime minister, under pressure after two defections to Ukip, adopts stronger rhetoric on potential break from Brussels
Tory byelection hopeful backs Ukip’s points system for EU migrants

16 Oct 2014: Anna Firth, one of two women pitching to stand in Rochester and Strood, told hustings ‘fruit pickers in Romania’ should be barred
Parties target undecided female voters in Rochester byelection campaign

15 Oct 2014: Women likely to be crucial in deciding outcome of 20 November contest triggered when Mark Reckless defected to Ukip
The abolition of council chief executives was Eric Pickles’s worst idea ever

14 Oct 2014: Hannah Fearn: Harrow saved £183,097 by dropping its chief executive. But it could have cost millions – including recruitment to the reinstated post
Rochester and Strood byelection to be held on 20 November

14 Oct 2014: David Cameron says councillors Anna Firth and Kelly Tolhurst will compete in Tory primary to fight Ukip defector Mark Reckless
Earls Court: uneven progress

13 Oct 2014: The future of much of London’s most controversial redevelopment scheme is uncertain but the greediest element has been given more green lights
Ukip will win Rochester and Strood byelection, says Douglas Carswell

12 Oct 2014: Ukip’s first MP adds his party could take as many as 24 seats at general election and hints that Labour MP considering defecting
Labour and Tories won’t stop Ukip by blaming each other

12 Oct 2014: Andrew Rawnsley: After the byelection double whammy, no one displays a coherent strategy for arresting the march of the Faragistes
Nigel Farage rules out Ukip election pact with Tories

11 Oct 2014: Farage insists his party is ‘not a splinter’ of the Tories amid growing Conservative calls for deal before next year’s election
Ed Miliband urged to harden stance on immigration after slim byelection win

10 Oct 2014: Victory by 617 votes in Heywood and Middleton stokes Labour unease that Ukip could take northern marginal seats next year
The Guardian view on Thursday’s byelections: rage, but not necessarily realignment

10 Oct 2014: Editorial: Ukip has tapped the same anti-Westminster rage as the yes campaign achieved in Scotland. Instead of pinching Farage’s policies, the main parties should take him on
Ukip’s win and the implications for David Cameron and Ed Miliband

10 Oct 2014: Letters: What’s surprised me has been the ease with which Messrs Carswell and Farage have been allowed to put the whole episode down as a matter of honour
Byelection analysis: Farageland is now an identifiable place

10 Oct 2014: Messages from conference podiums of Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties have failed to quell voters’ Ukip-led revolt