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

Chris Jarvis
Today

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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Donald Trump

If media is so fixated on equivalence, where are the calls for Trump to step aside?

Mark Bergman
13 August, 2024

Almost incomprehensively, for months, while the media and commentators were calling out President Biden’s age, gaffes and gait, and increasingly questioning his mental competence, Donald Trump largely has had a pass.  

house of lords

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public say hereditary peers in the House of Lords should be abolished, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

When it comes to party affiliation, a majority of Conservative Party voters, 54%, supported abolishing hereditary peers, as do 57% of Labour Party voters, 61% of Lib Dem voters and 63% of Green Party voters.

Boris Johnson walking up a set of stairs smiling

Boris Johnson could return to the Telegraph as global editor-in-chief as Nadhim Zahawi plots bid

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

Johnson has longstanding links with the Telegraph, having previously written a column for the paper and having started his journalism career there.

Elon musk

Labour minister launches brutal takedown of Elon Musk’s X

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

‘I don’t wish to fish in that particular pond anymore.’

Brexit

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters want Labour government to seek closer ties with the EU, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

The poll findings come at a time of widespread dissatisfaction among the public with Brexit, with polls consistently showing that a majority of voters believe Brexit to have been a mistake.

US Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris
Opinion

Labour unions and the US presidential election

Tony Burke
12 August, 2024

‘Trump is on the back foot and US unions are now openly fronting up their members and their families to vote for Harris.’

Nigel Farage

Brexit voters have a negative view of Nigel Farage for first time ever, poll shows

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

Among leave voters, Farage has a popularity rating of -4.

News

Musicians’ Union to approach government to raise post-Brexit touring concerns

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 August, 2024

‘It’s very encouraging to hear the need to find solutions for touring musicians mentioned so often by the Labour ministers.’

News

Examples of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric in right-wing press that led to reprimand

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 August, 2024

These hostile stories about Muslims and immigrants in the right-wing newspapers were criticised at the time, but unfortunately, the reprimand did little to permanently eliminate such inflammatory headlines.

News

Mediterranean heatwave would not have occurred without human-induced climate change, say climate scientists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 August, 2024

This summer’s heatwave in southern Europe follows 13 consecutive months of extreme global heat, with each month setting a new record for the hottest ever recorded.

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