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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

Hillsborough is not just about football or even Liverpool, it is about people power

Kevin Meagher
13 September, 2012

The emotionally draining findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel yesterday united people across Merseyside and the world of football. The 450,000 pages of documents from agencies who bore some responsibility for the events that unfolded, from ground safety and thetest

The inconvenient truth preventing extended working lives

Craig Berry
13 September, 2012

Craig Berry from the TUC explores the truth about the problems and issues with older workers and their pension.

US election campaign digest: Post-convention polling, remembering 9/11 and more

Larry Smith
13 September, 2012

Larry Smith reports on the latest events in the US Presidential election campaign.

Ed Davey’s power station numbers don’t add up

Joss Garman
12 September, 2012

The risk remains that the UK’s efforts on climate change could still be sabotaged by too much fossil fuel burning, and not enough renewable energy.

Time to act to safeguard the Olympic legacy

12 September, 2012

What can London 2012 learn from past games in maintaining a healthy, successfully and economically sound legacy?

Labour market stats: Underneath the good news…

Richard Exell
12 September, 2012

Richard Exell delves behind the headline unemployment figures and takes a deeper look at the latest September 2012 labour market statistics.

Time to seize upon Murray’s win and Olympic buzz and invest in grassroots sport

Ed Jacobs
12 September, 2012

Reaction to Andy Murray’s US Open at the end of this most golden summer of glorious British sport.

Miliband and Cameron argue jobs, borrowing and “predistribution” at subdued PMQs

12 September, 2012

Watch Ed Miliband and David Cameron argue jobs, borrowing and “predistribution” at PMQs, 12th September 2012.

Transport poverty is real, pervasive and must be tackled

12 September, 2012

Liz Thorne, policy adviser at Sustrans, examines whether a family car is a necessity or is transport poverty the real issue.

Carbon emissions

Have the Lib Dems already caved on a 2030 decarbonisation target?

Will Straw
12 September, 2012

Following Ed Davey’s op ed today in Politics Home, Will Straw looks at whether the Liberal Democrats have already caved on a 2030 decarbonisation target.

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