HIGHLIGHTS FROM Financial Times

• Starmer hits out at ‘extremes’ of left and right after historic Green by-election victory READ
• ‘There is an alternative’: Zack Polanski’s transformation of the Greens READ
• Reform defends choice of Matthew Goodwin as its by-election candidate READ
• US and UK pull diplomats from Middle East as Iran war fears rise READ
• Pete Hegseth, Maga’s man at the Pentagon READ