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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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Voting Ballot Box
News

Tories set to lose 500 council seats in local elections, analysts predict

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2024

The Labour Party meanwhile is predicted to make about 300 gains.

Mary Bousted and Mick Lynch
News

UK strikes: List of everyone taking industrial action in April 

Hannah Davenport
2 April, 2024

Discontent continues with transport strikes this Spring and numerous strike ballots threatening unrest across the public sector this year

A picture of the Thames Water logo
Opinion

Let Thames Water go bust: It’s time to bring water back into public ownership

Prem Sikka
2 April, 2024

England’s privatised water companies are an example of vulture capitalism

Liz Truss Tory former prime minister

Regulator rejects call for investigation into Tufton Street think tank behind Liz Truss’s budget

Hannah Davenport
1 April, 2024

Former Charity Commission board member ‘troubled’ by the decision and the speed of the complaints dismissal

Brendan Clarke-Smith
News

Tory MP slammed for response to Labour’s Trans Day of Visibility post

Hannah Davenport
1 April, 2024

‘Not sure attacking solidarity for a minority community facing abuse is quite the message of gratitude to Jesus for his sacrifice so that we may live in renewed hope’

Parliament
News

UK government accused of covering up legal advice saying Israel is breaking international law

Hannah Davenport
1 April, 2024

42 MPs have signed an Early Days Motion calling for the government to immediately publish the legal advice findings

Rishi Sunak
News

Tory rebellion threat over ‘cruel’ plan to criminalise homelessness

Hannah Davenport
1 April, 2024

‘Another law that criminalises homelessness will be another broken promise from the Tory government’

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Keir Starmer’s condemnation of ‘terror’ in Gaza is a step forward: but just the beginning

Nafeez Ahmed
31 March, 2024

Starmer’s language at the Concordia event which I attended as part of the organising team represents a seismic shift in the Labour Party’s approach both to the Middle East conflict

Laurence Fox
News

Laurence Fox barred from standing in London mayoral election after nomination forms error

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2024

Fox took to X, formerly Twitter, to put his exclusion from the mayoral contest down to ‘political corruption’ in posts which have since been deleted.

A placard reading smash racism
Opinion

We must campaign for a Wales which has the powers it needs to create true equality for all

Sioned Williams
28 March, 2024

We cannot gamble with people’s lives on waiting for a more progressive government in Westminster – for our action plan to have teeth, we must set out the steps for taking the power to enact it.

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