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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

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Green Party migration spokesperson Benali Hamdache speaking at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign fringe at Green Party Conference
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EXCLUSIVE: Green Party spokesperson brands Labour government ‘even less principled than Margaret Thatcher’ on arms sales to Israel

Chris Jarvis
6 September, 2024

The comments were made at a fringe meeting at Green Party Conference

Angela Rayner

How Labour’s New Deal for Workers could be even more radical

Tony Burke
6 September, 2024

There is still more to be done…

Keir Starmer at PMQs

The Labour government has made a policy error in denying Winter Fuel Payments

Prem Sikka
6 September, 2024

Nearly 2.2m pensioners live in poverty.

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay
News

Green Party co-leader promises to hold Labour to account on Gaza, benefits and climate

Chris Jarvis
6 September, 2024

Adrian Ramsay used his party conference speech to say he wanted to “raise up the voices of everyone across the country who wants a fairer, greener future”

Green Party activists standing with a party banner
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EXCLUSIVE: Left wing network to launch at Green Party Conference

Chris Jarvis
6 September, 2024

Greens Organise wants to ‘build the left within the party, and the party within the left’

55 Tufton Street

Disabled children’s charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks

Basit Mahmood
6 September, 2024

Over the last five years, the Street Foundation is found to have given rightwing pressure groups £749,000 – more than 40% of the money it handed out during this period

Nigel Farage

GB News paid Nigel Farage £81,607 for just 32 hours of work

Basit Mahmood
6 September, 2024

That works out to more than £2,500 an hour for Parliament’s highest earning MP.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

Government is appointing Covid Corruption Commissioner to go after dodgy contracts awarded by Tories

Basit Mahmood
5 September, 2024

Anti-corruption group Transparency International has previously revealed that the UK government’s fast-tracking of suppliers recommended by officials and politicians may have led to “systematic and partisan bias” in the awarding of contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic.

Priti Patel

Wife of former Putin Minister gave £70,000 to Priti Patel’s leadership campaign… only to see her knocked out in the first round

Basit Mahmood
5 September, 2024

Patel’s register of interests shows that Lubov Chernukhin made the donation on the 12th August which was accepted on the 13th August.

House of Lords

Hereditary peers to be kicked out of the House of Lords within months

Basit Mahmood
5 September, 2024

Labour has also promised to introduce a retirement age of 80 for members of the Lords but that will happen later, after a consultation.

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