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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?

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Latest Posts

Johnson and sunak

Covid-19 victims’ families call on Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to resign

Basit Mahmood
13 April, 2022

“If they had any decency they would be gone by tonight.”

Fabricant

Fury after Tory MP defends PM by claiming ‘many nurses and teachers’ also broke the law

Basit Mahmood
13 April, 2022

‘Most teachers and nurses I know had NO time for themselves, let alone having a piss up after work like Michael Fabricant is suggesting, with his stiff wig.’

Tories rally to defend Boris Johnson as calls grow for him to resign over Partygate fines

John Lubbock
12 April, 2022

Tories rallied to defend Boris Johnson as it was revealed that he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak had been fined by police.

Conservative Party rosette

EXCLUSIVE: Tory councillor said Islam ‘is the enemy’ and that it ‘will have to be defeated’

Basit Mahmood
12 April, 2022

Councillor Gary Talbot, from Stourport Town Council, tweeted: “Islam is the enemy within England, and it will have to be defeated within England, by the English”.

Johnson and sunak

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be fined for attending parties during lockdown

Basit Mahmood
12 April, 2022

So far, a total of more than 50 fines have been handed for Covid law-breaking in government buildings.

Voting Ballot Box

Diane Abbott MP: What is at stake in the local government elections?

Diane Abbott
12 April, 2022

‘Representation at all levels of government matters because of what we can deliver.’

Crispin blunt

Outrage after Tory MP defends colleague convicted of sexually assaulting teenage boy

Basit Mahmood
12 April, 2022

‘Crispin’s views are wholly unacceptable’

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
11 April, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

UK benefits fall to their lowest value in 50 years

Basit Mahmood
11 April, 2022

Benefits will be uprated by just 3.1% today, despite inflation expected to be around 7.7% this month, with the Bank of England warning that it could reach even higher towards the end of the year.

Local councils and net zero

The government’s energy strategy fails to address both the cost of living crisis and the climate emergency

Thomas Perrett
11 April, 2022

‘The government has produced an energy strategy which has ignored the overwhelming evidence detailing the harm caused by extractive industries’.

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