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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

Latest Posts

Nadine Dorries speaking at a lectern

Channel 4 proves another Nadine Dorries claim to be untrue

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2022

After rigorously investigating the claims, Channel 4 says it had found no evidence to back up what Dorries said.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, July 2022

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

liz Truss

Liz Truss says she wanted Boris Johnson to ‘carry on as Prime Minister’

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2022

Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she said: “I wanted Boris to carry on as prime minister.”

Boris Johnson

Tory members demand they are given the option of voting for Boris Johnson in the leadership ballot

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2022

The wording of the petition states: “I demand Boris Johnson is added to the ballot as an option for the members to vote upon in the forthcoming election.”

Conservation

For conservation to be socially just it also needs to be inclusive of marginalised communities

Nick Harvey
20 July, 2022

Nick Harvey is a policy officer at the British Ecological Society. The challenges that society faces do not exist independently, they interact and magnify each other. Despite this, it is easy for people working against what they consider to betest

Firefighters

Firefighters’ union blasts government policy of cutting resources amid heatwave crisis

Basit Mahmood
20 July, 2022

“Firefighters are at the forefront of the climate emergency. The demands of the job are increasing but our resources have been under attack by government cuts for over a decade. 11,500 firefighter jobs have been slashed since 2010.”

A placard at a climate change protest with text reading "There is no planet B"

Daily Mail mocked for piece attacking ‘woke’ and ‘climate alarmist Met Office’ amid heatwave crisis

Basit Mahmood
20 July, 2022

The record-breaking temperatures yesterday meant that the fire service in London faced its busiest day since the second world war, as fires raged throughout the country.

COP26

Government’s net zero strategy breaches UK’s climate obligations, High Court rules

Basit Mahmood
20 July, 2022

The law requires the government to produce detailed climate policies showing how the UK’s carbon budgets will be met.

Oxford City Council to provide free period products in public spaces

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2022

As period poverty in the UK rises, Oxford is to launch a scheme offering free sanitary protection in public toilets and other public buildings across the city.

Ellwood
News

Tobias Ellwood stripped of Tory whip after missing confidence vote

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2022

Suggestions have been made that Johnson removed the whip from the MP, who is an outspoken critic of the PM, as a means of eliminating a vote for Penny Mordaunt.

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