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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

Latest Posts

Voting Ballot Box
Opinion

Want to defeat the Tories at the next election? Appeal to older voters.

Ben Cooper
4 May, 2023

Older voters hold the key to the next election

RMT
News

Strike dates: Who is on strike this month?

Hannah Davenport
3 May, 2023

From the railways to Heathrow, workers continue industrial action throughout May for decent pay

BP sign on a blue sky

Petition urging government to impose stronger windfall tax on oil and gas companies attracts thousands of signatures

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 May, 2023

The campaign text describes BP’s profits as ‘heinous’ as the ‘majority of Britons struggle to pay exorbitant energy bills.’

Unite the Union flag
News

Local government workers ballot for strike action as pay offer rejected

Hannah Davenport
3 May, 2023

‘They have drawn a line in the sand and will not accept any further erosion of their pay’

Caroline Lucas PMQs

PMQs: Caroline Lucas steals the show blasting Tories’ ‘poisonous narrative’ on asylum seekers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 May, 2023

The Green MP asked why the PM has not made a Sudanese family visa scheme.

Buckingham Palace
News

Government’s fast-tracking of new anti-protest laws days before coronation fuels anger and dismay

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 May, 2023

The Home Office claims the timing of the new powers is coincidental.

pension age
News

Campaigners demand end to rise in state pension age at protest

Hannah Davenport
3 May, 2023

Workers of today are the pensioners of tomorrow

Wokefest

‘Wokefest’ gets underway to promote diversity in Swansea and to counter Katie Hopkins’ shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 May, 2023

‘We hope to reclaim the word ‘woke’ to its rightful place as something to be proud of.’

Strike
News

Anti-strike law: Unions to challenge government in High Court

Hannah Davenport
3 May, 2023

“This government is brazenly attacking the right to strike”

Sue Gray
News

Starmer accuses Tories of attempting to stoke row over Sue Gray hiring ahead of local elections

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 May, 2023

The Labour leader has said ministers are ‘trying to resurrect’ the fallout over the appointing of Gray as they don’t have anything to say about the cost of living crisis.

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