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Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Public sector workers do £11bn of unpaid overtime every year

24 July, 2017

A quarter of public sector staff do on average eight hours of unpaid work a week, shocking new GMB report reveals.

Boots’ backdown on emergency contraception is a small part of a bigger battle

Sophie Walker
24 July, 2017

We can’t stop campaigning until the contraceptive pill is free, cuts to sexual health services have been reversed and abortion made free safe and legal.

Labour should support Tory reform of outdated and regressive gender law

Sophie Cook
24 July, 2017

We need a cross-party approach to amend the Gender Recognition Act and improve transgender rights in the UK

Five reasons we can’t stop worrying about inequality in the UK

Annie Quick
21 July, 2017

Don’t believe the hype: figures showing a fall in inequality don’t give the whole picture.

Wales just scrapped the worst of the Tories’ union-busting law

Josiah Mortimer
21 July, 2017

The Welsh Assembly has abolished most of the Tories’ divisive Trade Union Act. But workers’ rights in Wales aren’t safe just yet.

Why Gove can’t be trusted on his ‘Green Brexit’ rhetoric today

Josiah Mortimer
21 July, 2017

Don’t buy Gove’s ‘Green Brexit’ promises – his record speaks louder than his words.

From the railways to pension age – are the government trying to bury bad news?

20 July, 2017

It’s not the first time they’ve done this…

Anti-fracking protestors block Cuadrilla site in Lancashire

20 July, 2017

Activists are trying to disrupt Cuadrilla’s work through direct action

Student debt is causing mid-life tax crisis, study finds

20 July, 2017

Claims that the tuition fee system is progressive aren’t supported by the evidence, this report finds.

It’s official: no deal is a bad deal

20 July, 2017

Despite what May says, academics have found no deal would be the worst of all worlds.

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