A forum where readers can discuss today’s politics and share links to breaking news and to the most interesting politics stories, blogs and tweets on the web

We’re not writing our usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.

Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat others with respect and don’t resort to abuse. Guardian comment pages are supposed to be a haven from the Twitter/social media rant-orama, not an extension of it.

You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.

And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There was one last night. Britain Elects has the results.

Britain Elects (@britainelects) Britain's last council by-election before this year's local elections: a Labour defence for the Shrewsbury suburb of Belle Vue, Shropshire.@andrewteale's preview:https://t.co/Ud5Y73Jm21