Which parties are running the most candidates at the 2025 local elections?
Elections are taking place on 1 May 2025
Chris Jarvis
Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward
New research illustrates how teachers’ pay lags considerably behind other professions
The National Education Union say this research illustrates the need for its demands for significant pay improvements
Lib Dems launch local election campaign with claim they can surpass Tories as second largest party in local government
Ed Davey says he wants the Lib Dems to become the new ‘party of Middle England’
Reform UK voters three times as likely to believe climate change isn’t real
Less than half of Reform UK voters think that climate change is happening as a result of human actions
Where are elections happening on 1 May 2025?
There are 25 council elections, six mayoral elections and one parliamentary by-election on 1 May
Who is Karen Shore, Labour’s candidate in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election?
A by-election will be taking place to replace Mike Amesbury
Bombshell poll suggests Labour set to lose Runcorn and Helsby by-election to Reform UK
Labour are on track to come second
New poll reveals what NHS staff really think about the state of the health service
This doesn’t make happy reading…
Climate campaigners take fight against Rosebank oil field to Westminster Bridge
“Labour needs to get off the fence. This new oil field just makes no sense.”
Anneliese Dodds resigns from cabinet over aid cuts which will ‘remove food and healthcare from desperate people’
Dodds has said that increased defence spending can’t be achieved through ‘tactical cuts’