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

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Polling booth
News

Outrage at government for ‘disenfranchising younger voters’ ahead of May local elections

Basit Mahmood
3 April, 2023

While a 60+ Oyster card will be valid ID at a polling booth, an 18+ Oyster card won’t be.

Voting Ballot Box
News

1 in 4 voters wrongly believe they won’t need ID to vote in May’s local elections

Basit Mahmood
3 April, 2023

According to the government’s own figures, two million voters do not currently hold a piece of photographic ID.

Climate change denial

Tory Party received £3.5m from donors with fossil fuel, polluter and climate denial links in 2022, new research finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 April, 2023

The government’s ‘green day’ “couldn’t be any more of a misnomer, when the Conservative party is raking in millions of pounds’ worth of dirty donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers.”

Right-Wing Watch

Psst… want a Tory peerage? Just join a right-wing think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 April, 2023

Leading a right-wing ‘think-tank’ seems to be another sure-fire way of transitioning to the Lords.

Manchester University
News

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds and under-represented groups more likely to drop out of university, research shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 April, 2023

The figures should ‘concern us all,’ the higher education regulator warns

News

Don’t mention the C word: Food critic Jay Rayner roasts Michael Gove in Twitter spat

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 April, 2023

The levelling up secretary took exception to the ‘Cones Hotline’ criticism.

Gillian Keegan

Teachers union accuses education secretary of being ‘profoundly out of touch’ with teachers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 April, 2023

A pay offer for teachers made by the government this week was described by the NEU as ‘insulting.’

Question TIme
News

Question Time audience member eviscerates entire Tory record in two minutes

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2023

‘You have cut funding, you’ve cut budgets in schools. We can’t recruit teachers. We can’t recruit teaching assistants.’

Kemi Badenoch
News

Kemi Badenoch says ‘stop talking about Brexit vote’

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2023

“We have left the EU so we need to look at what to do in order to grow the UK economy and not keep talking about a vote from seven years ago”.

Brexit and EU
News

Here’s a simple fact which shows how bad the UK’s biggest trade deal since Brexit is

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2023

How much will this deal compensate for the economic hit caused by Brexit?

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