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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?

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Latest Posts

kwasi kwarteng

Why Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget is only for the richest 1% while failing the most in need

Basit Mahmood
23 September, 2022

There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.

House of Lords

Labour could abolish House of Lords if it wins next election

Basit Mahmood
23 September, 2022

The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.

Public health

Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue

Natalie Bennett
22 September, 2022

‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’

Ed Miliband

A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2022

“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense.”

Liz Truss speaking in the House of Commons

Liz Truss unlikely to attend COP27 climate change conference, despite promising to do so

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2022

‘In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November’

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Wera Hobhouse MP: Liz Truss’s intervention does not go far enough

Wera Hobhouse MP
22 September, 2022

The cap Liz Truss would implement, at £2,500, still means your energy bills have doubled since this time last year

A photo of a blanket laying on cardboard boxes on a street

Reinstate eviction ban during cost of living crisis to prevent rise in homelessness, ministers told

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2022

“The cost of not acting now is too great, as we stand on the precipice of a new emergency.”

Liz Truss speaking in the House of Commons

Liz Truss admits her tax cuts will benefit the rich more than the poor

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2022

She defended herself for taking ‘difficult decisions’

dm truss

The shocking statistics which show how desperate the Daily Mail was for Liz Truss to become PM

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2022

“The fact that Mordaunt ultimately lost out to the Mail’s favoured candidate Liz Truss, who has gone on to win election as Prime Minister, shows how powerful newspapers still are in politics.”

rmt

11 trade unions launch legal challenge against government’s strike-breaking legislation

Basit Mahmood
20 September, 2022

“The right to strike is a fundamental British liberty. But the government is attacking it in broad daylight.”

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