内容摘要：She said she was changing the party but "it's not going to happen overnight" - and she insisted she would definitely lead it into the next general election in four years time.

She said she was changing the party but "it's not going to happen overnight" - and she insisted she would definitely lead it into the next general election in four years time.

After his successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris, lost to Donald Trump, many wondered if he had hung on too long. Then last month, Biden announced he had stage 4 prostate cancer, a condition with a grim prognosis that would have presented a national crisis if he had managed to win re-election.Now many within the party, including some of those dining on fried fish and white bread at Clyburn's gathering last Friday, are wondering if it's time the party found new blood - especially after three congressional Democrats died in office this year alone. The losses meant that the Republicans' slim majority in Congress was bolstered, allowing them to pass Trump's controversial spending bill by a single vote.

"We have a geriatric problem," said Ashley McIntyre Stewart, specifically noting the recent House spending bill. "We need to get the younger community involved so that we don't have the Republicans railroad us."According to a survey last month by Axios, more than half of the 30 Democrats in the House over age 75 are planning to seek re-election next year, including Clyburn, whose term would end when he is 88 if he wins.The veteran politician scoffed at the idea of retiring.

"I will respond to the voters of South Carolina," he told media who were at the fish fry. "I've been with them all month, and not a single one of them said to me that they think I'm too old. Every one of them said to me, please don't leave."He also bristled at the second-guessing over whether Biden should have stepped aside earlier, saying that his children and grandchildren don't care about the former president's choice.

"They're going to ask me what did you do to make sure I got a better life," he said. "That's all I'm concentrating on."

Democratic voters have tended to accept the risks that come with electing older politicians to office, prioritising governing experience over youth and vitality. In 2024, only two Democratic incumbents in Congress lost their party's nomination, and both – Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York – were relative newcomers under the age of 50.A Labour spokesperson said: "Kemi Badenoch's review is nothing more than a desperate attempt to appease Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage's Reform Party.

"If she's so certain in her approach, why didn't the Conservatives make these changes when they had the chance in government, rather than simply booting them into the long grass."to keep up with the inner workings of Westminster and beyond.

A Pride festival has been postponed because of thunderstorms that are forecast.The annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community in Corby, Northamptonshire, was due to take place on Saturday.