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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

Latest Posts

Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman handed £16.8k of taxpayers’ money when she was sacked

Basit Mahmood
31 July, 2024

Braverman received £16,876 of taxpayers’ money as part of a “non-taxable exit payment” at the end of last year.

NHS
Opinion

Britain is crying out for bold solutions to save the NHS

Ellie Chowns MP
30 July, 2024

‘The NHS needs Keir Starmer to use his huge majority to do whatever it takes, and that begins with telling the truth about the huge investment needed to save it’

Liz Truss

Liz Truss is brutally mocked after offering up her opinion on Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2024

“As you are a disastrously failed PM with the shortest tenure in history and were turfed out by the electorate at the general election, we shall file your contribution appropriately.”

teachers
News

Trade unions welcome pay deal announcements from Chancellor

Hannah Davenport
30 July, 2024

Union leaders praise change in direction, but warn of divisions in pay restoration for NHS workers

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street

The EU’s signal that it may be ready for closer ties with a Labour government can only be a good thing

Tony Burke
30 July, 2024

With growing opposition among UK voters to Brexit, the damage it has done and an increase in ‘buyers remorse’ any improvements to relations with the EU should be popular in the EU itself.

Rachel Reeves
News

Age UK condemns Chancellor’s restriction on Winter Fuel Payments

Hannah Davenport
30 July, 2024

Charities warn older households just above the threshold will be hit hard by the move

Eton

Private schools face VAT charge from January 2025, Labour confirms

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2024

The Treasury confirmed yesterday that it would apply to payments made in advance for school terms starting after January 1 2025, including any payments made on or after Monday.

Jeremy Hunt interview
News

Jeremy Hunt confronted with spending black hole in excruciating interview

Hannah Davenport
30 July, 2024

“For you to have signed up to this list of spending commitments in the year.. it’s unprecedented Mr Hunt”

Northern Railway

Labour begins process of renationalising rail

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

This afternoon MPs are debating the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill – which will see private rail franchises taken into public ownership as they expire.

Eddie Dempsey
News

RMT’s Eddie Dempsey makes powerful speech on beating the far right at anti-racism march

Hannah Davenport
29 July, 2024

Thousands of counter-protesters united in London against a large Tommy Robinson rally

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