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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?

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Latest Posts

News

Rishi Sunak gives his own constituency £19,000,000 of levelling up funding

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2023

Documents show the £19m will be used “to transform Catterick Garrison town centre” in his own constituency

Sunak PMQS
News

Tory levelling up fund slammed as ‘completely corrupt’

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2023

‘Can we have a debate in government time on corruption in the operation of slush funds in this country’

Social Housing in the UK
Opinion

England’s social housing sector needs renewal and here’s how to do it

Chris Worrall
19 January, 2023

‘Labour must offer a social housing funding mechanism that not only provides new supply, but tackles the systemic need for rehabilitation of existing stock.’

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News

Institute of Economic Affairs argues against pay rises for workers while ‘one of its own directors gets 28% increase’

Basit Mahmood
19 January, 2023

If only some of our hard-pressed public sector workers were given such a pay rise.

Rivers
Opinion

Wera Hobhouse MP: Not a single river in the UK is free from pollution and the Tories keeps muddying the waters

Wera Hobhouse MP
19 January, 2023

‘Protecting all of our rivers and streams is essential to prevent Britain from becoming an open sewer’

Huw Merriman
News

Tory minister admits resolving rail disputes would have been cheaper than strikes

Basit Mahmood
19 January, 2023

“It’s actually ended up costing more than would have been the case if it was just settled in that part.”

Nurses strike
News

Nurse interview: ‘I’m striking for patient safety’

Hannah Davenport
18 January, 2023

Lianne Hyslop joined her colleagues on the picket line in response to the chronic underfunding she has witnessed as a nurse.

Ambulance
News

Strike dates: Ambulance staff announce new walkouts

Hannah Davenport
18 January, 2023

Ambulance staff ‘are done’ and ‘angry’ as new strike dates announced and GMB calls on the government to get serious on pay.

Starmer
News

PMQs: Keir Starmer absolutely wipes the floor with Rishi Sunak over NHS crisis

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2023

“So for one week, will he stop blaming others, take some responsibility and just admit under his watch, the NHS is in crisis, isn’t it?”

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

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

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2023

A roundup of news on the left…

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