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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

Osborne has no reason to be smug: Britons are suffering an economic hangover

Carl Packman
10 March, 2015

Debt has soared under the coalition – how will the chancellor spin that to his followers?

IFS chief agrees with Labour: a Tory government could make £70 billion in public spending cuts

James Bloodworth
10 March, 2015

The independent think tank has backed Ed Balls’ claim that the Conservatives are planning £70 billion worth of public spending cuts

Free schools are great…says chair of free school slammed by Ofsted

James Bloodworth
10 March, 2015

The Policy Exchange report was conveniently released on the day David Cameron announced 49 new free schools

The coalition’s appalling failure to build houses laid bare

Ruby Stockham
10 March, 2015

Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds will today set out plans to reverse the coalition’s record, which has resulted in 205,000 fewer home owners

A cap on credit and debit card fees will save UK businesses £480m a year

Anneliese Dodds
9 March, 2015

On Tuesday Labour MEPs will vote in favour of a new European law that will cap these fees for good

Why we need the Good Right – and what we can learn from them

Richard Carr
9 March, 2015

There are enough real and substantive changes that can be made to our society without dismissing the other side as beyond the pale

Decent in-work benefits are crucial for reducing child poverty

Richard Exell
9 March, 2015

Annual cuts to key benefits will take £17.9bn a year from working families by 2016/17

Boris’ apprenticeship programme is failing young people

Ruby Stockham
9 March, 2015

Time is running out for the mayor to reach his target

TUC warns of low-paid jobs recovery for women

Ruby Stockham
9 March, 2015

Last year’s jobs recovery meant an entry into low-paid, part-time work for many women

Austerity can never work – here’s why

John Mills
7 March, 2015

Continuing down the path of austerity while ignoring straightforward – if politically difficult – solutions, will lead the UK closer to economic disaster

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