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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak boasts of taking money away from ‘deprived urban areas’ for wealthy towns

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

‘We inherited a bunch of formulas from the Labour Party that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.’

Unite and GMB workers at Harland & Wolff shipyard

To prevent a recession and grow the economy we have to protect workers’ rights

Prem Sikka
5 August, 2022

The lessons for workers are clear. Join a trade union, show solidarity with fellow workers and vote for a political party that will enhance market and political power of labour.

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage joins pro-Putin Viktor Orban at conference of U.S conservatives where he will speak about ‘saving the West’

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

Farage will be addressing the same conference at which Orban spoke and on the same theme of ‘saving the West’.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi on holiday as Bank of England warns of recession

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

Labour has accused the pair of being “missing in action” as the full scale of the meltdown facing the UK’s economy became apparent.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, August 2022

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

class pay gap

Earnings gap between those who were on free school meals and privately educated peers revealed

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

Even when those who were on FSM have the same qualification level, educational attainment and labour market experience as their private school peers, FSM students earn 20% less than an independent school student at age of 30.

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

Ofgem’s energy announcement that could see bills soar more often slammed by fuel poverty campaigners

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

Simon Francis, co-ordinator for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said the decision was “simply inhumane”.

Boris Johnson

Tory members would rather vote for Boris Johnson instead of Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

Clearly Johnson’s lies, law-breaking and trashing of the highest office in the land don’t matter much to the Tory party members.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak’s plan to widen definition of extremism to include people who ‘vilify’ Britain slammed as attack on free speech

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

“It is straying into thought crimes and political opinions.”

CWU
Opinion

Diane Abbott MP: There is a fundamental right to strike and a human rights lawyer should support that

Diane Abbott
3 August, 2022

‘The Labour Party and the labour movement came into being through protest, some of it illegal at the time as our commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs testifies. ‘

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