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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

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Unite balloons being flown at a TUC march

Full list of strike action planned for next week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 February, 2023

The strikes for better pay and conditions show no sign of slowing down as we head into the second week of February.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"
News

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2023

A roundup of news on the left…

A photo of the Unison trade union bloc on the 2022 TUC demonstration
Opinion

It’s time to build an economy that works for everyone

Mish Rahman
3 February, 2023

We need a new approach, not just to energy, but our whole economy – one that puts people before profit

strikes
Opinion

Here’s why the government’s anti-strike legislation will fail

Prem Sikka
3 February, 2023

‘In fast-tracking the Bill, the beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is resuscitating the ghost of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’

Liz Truss
News

Liz Truss is ‘plotting a comeback’

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2023

Truss reportedly wants to ‘position herself as someone who was not understood at the time – an intellectual visionary.’

Green Party campaigners holding a Green Party banner in Bristol
News

The Green Party is now the largest party on Bristol City Council

Chris Jarvis
3 February, 2023

A by-election victory has turned into a major breakthrough for the Greens

Mick Lynch
News

RMT wins free travel for 5,800 cleaners on London’s transport system

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2023

London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced he will extend staff free travel to all sub-contracted cleaners

Housing
Opinion

The rise of pro-housing Labour politicians should be applauded

Chris Worrall
2 February, 2023

‘With new blood coming into politics and policymaking, pro-housing stances are now finally being taken’

Shell lorry
News

Shell announces record annual profits of £32.2bn, its highest in 115 years

Basit Mahmood
2 February, 2023

“Not everyone is suffering from a cost of living crisis.”

Mick Lynch
News

Mick Lynch says ‘the working class are back’ in rousing picket line speech

Basit Mahmood
2 February, 2023

“We are here, we are demanding change, we refuse to be poor, and we are going to win for our people on our terms.”

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