Which councils are Labour hoping to gain in May?
The Labour Party continues to command a strong lead over the Tories in the polls.
The Labour Party continues to command a strong lead over the Tories in the polls.
Candidate contests and some areas to look out as the May local elections get closer
The Labour Party meanwhile is predicted to make about 300 gains.
“Polling clerks are more likely to fail to compare a photo ID to the person presenting that document if the person is of a different ethnicity”.
‘So we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.’
The result marks the first time an imam has won a council seat.
“It seems to me there is a real possibility that the only fraud could be this Government.”
‘Labour needs to win the national popular vote by 9pts in order to win an overall majority, which would require an 11% swing – bigger than the swing achieved by Tony Blair in 1997’
In 2019, 71% of all votes cast had no impact on the outcome of the election, either because they went to candidates who lost, or went into padding the majorities of winning MPs.
Some big names have been taken down, for better or worse