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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

David Cameron cannot allow the chaos at the DWP to continue

Rachel Reeves
30 June, 2014

Today we will urge the government to come clean about the impact of delays, chaos and failing programmes at the Department for Work and Pensions.

For all Gove’s talk of parental choice, fewer pupils got their chosen secondary this year

Annie Powell
29 June, 2014

There is increasing pressure on school places and Michael Gove’s policies are making things worse.

This week’s most read: BBC bias, UKIP and Juncker

28 June, 2014

The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.

Labour is hitting the right notes on tax avoidance

Richard Murphy
27 June, 2014

Labour is willing to talk about tax avoidance but also tax evasion. For too long politicians have ducked the issue.

The royal household is openly abusing public money

Graham Smith
27 June, 2014

The total annual cost of the monarchy is estimated by Republic to be around £300m – nine times higher than the official figure.

Advanced manufacturing must play a major role in growing and rebalancing the economy

Tony Burke
27 June, 2014

A review of manufacturing commissioned by Labour says the UK needs to avoid damaging economic short-termism.

Labour outlines progressive vision for the Union

Ed Jacobs
27 June, 2014

Scotland can be part of a progressive union, Miliband will say today.

Poor people in Britain – poorer than those in similar-sized economies

Luke Hildyard
27 June, 2014

Incomes in the West Midlands are significantly lower than in the poorest regions of Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

ISIS are more in thrall to Hitler and Stalin than to the Caliphate

Ghaffar Hussain
26 June, 2014

The contemporary agitation for a Caliphate is a struggle to establish a totalitarian state that bears little resemblance to Muslim empires of the past.

Inequality is on the rise. And it really is the coalition’s fault

James Bloodworth
26 June, 2014

Now that coalition reforms are in place, we’re starting to see the true impact of government policy – and inequality is on the rise.

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