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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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Robert Jenrick has joined in a far-right flag raising campaign
News

Workers intimidated and abused for taking down flags

Olivia Barber
15 October, 2025

There are numerous reports of workers being assaulted, spat at and verbally abused

Donald Trump
Opinion

Trump, Farage and the right’s free speech hypocrisy

Claire Jones
14 October, 2025

What’s behind the Trump administration’s transatlantic provocations on UK free speech and who does the dark agenda really belong to?

Zack Polanski speaking at Green Party conference
News

Zack Polanski to be interviewed on Kuenssberg’s show after ‘anti-Green bias’ complaints

Olivia Barber
14 October, 2025

Polanski did not appear on Kuenssberg’s show at his party’s conference, but the interview has now been rescheduled amid complaints

Reform UK

Reform in turmoil after yet another councillor is suspended

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2025

Robert Ford was elected to represent Maidstone Rural West in May’s local elections and will now sit as an independent until investigations into the allegations are complete.

Emily Darlington MP schools Reform's Laila Cunningham over council savings claims
News

Reform councillor schooled on council savings claims

Olivia Barber
14 October, 2025

‘This discussion about waste is generally misleading, we’ve had 14 years of Tory austerity which has cut spending to the absolute bone.’

A photo of Liz Truss in a Make America great again cap while visiting Washington for Trump's inauguration in January

Has Liz Truss’ ‘free speech’ social media platform fallen flat?

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2025

Truss said she would launch her own social media platform, believing that the ‘establishment media’ have failed her.

Nigel Farage speaking at cryptocurrency event
News

Nigel Farage declares himself ‘champion’ of crypto at conference in Trump-style pitch

Olivia Barber
14 October, 2025

‘It’s the Trump playbook’

France protests

France’s political crisis is a glimpse of Britain’s future – will we react?

Tom Brake
14 October, 2025

Electoral reform will not transform our political culture overnight, but refusing to confront fragmentation will make effective governance permanently impossible.

Reform UK

Reform UK group leader at Cornwall Council resigns from role

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2025

Yet another resignation will add to the sense that Reform is a party in chaos, with a number of councillors having quit since the local elections in May.

Nigel Farage

Reform to U-turn on £90 billion tax cuts

Olivia Barber
13 October, 2025

‘Nigel Farage has finally admitted what everyone already knew: Reform’s economic plans are built on sand.’

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