Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?
Who’s up and who’s down?

Mayoral candidate proposes rent caps, no new airport runways and 200,000 homes

Tories and SNP pounce on Scottish Labour leader’s wobble on independence

Poll finds 18 to 34-year-olds could sway EU referendum

Tax credits, personal independent payments, Sunday trading and now steel all suggest a Government whose sure-footedness is eroding fast.

The legitimacy of the EU-Turkey deal is already in tatters, as Amnesty reports asylum-seekers are being forcibly returned to Syria

It’s been a dark week in politics

The term ‘living wage’ may cause the legal minimum to become the going rate for low-skilled work.

Four-in-five British researchers believe Brexit would be harmful to UK science

The Civitas publication also advocates a public house-building programme to push down prices

There is no individual cruelty IS has committed that the regime has not at least matched