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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Tory council leader calls for Boris Johnson to quit after party suffers humiliating defeat in local election

Basit Mahmood
6 May, 2022

People don’t have “confidence that the prime minister can be relied upon to tell the truth”

Local Elections 2022: Labour, Lib Dems and Greens toast successes

Basit Mahmood
6 May, 2022

It’s been a disastrous night for the Tories in London, where Labour has taken control of hugely significant councils in Wandsworth, Barnet and Westminster

Warnings made about newly formed group of climate change sceptics

Climate sceptic think tank receives funding from US billionaire bankroller of Conservative crusades

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate sceptic policy group, has received funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, one of the biggest donors to hard-line Conservative causes in the US over the decades.

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan hits out at ‘woke whiny wastrels’ after ratings for Uncensored show nosedive

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

The outspoken broadcaster took offense to reports about the fall in popularity of the flagship show on Murdoch’s TalkTV.

Social housing

A ‘hare-brained idea’: Johnson’s musing of Right to Buy denounced as ploy to win ‘red wall’ votes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

“This is desperate stuff from a tired government, repackaging a plan from 2015.”

Polling Station

Local elections: Tory candidates desperately attempt to distance themselves from Johnson and Westminster

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

Conservative council candidates have been accused of ‘trying to hide from their own government’s record’, as they attempt to dissociate from the scandal-mired prime minister.

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

Basit Mahmood
4 May, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Green Party activists standing with a party banner

Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands

Jenny Jones
4 May, 2022

‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’

Refugees

The Nationality and Borders Bill has passed, what now?

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
4 May, 2022

Analysis from the Refugee Council predicts more than 19,000 people a year fleeing war, conflict, and bloodshed could face years in UK prisons for attempting to find safety.

Boris Johnson speaking at a desk

Boris Johnson pictured campaigning with Tory councillor linked to ‘furlough fraud’

Basit Mahmood
4 May, 2022

In March, North Tyneside Conservatives were accused of abusing the furlough scheme

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