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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Fracking site

Right-wing press stirs speculation UK fracking is ‘back on the agenda’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 March, 2022

The Tory media have been quick to jump on claims that fracking could return to Britain as Johnson blocks imports of Russian oil.

Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons at Prime Ministers Questions on Ukrainian refugees

PMQs: Johnson and Patel slammed for failure on Ukrainian refugees

Chris Jarvis
9 March, 2022

“These numbers don’t lie – they tell a devastating truth. Does the Prime Minister find it acceptable that his Home Secretary has overseen one of the slowest, most bureaucratic and incompetent refugee responses in the whole of Europe?”

London

Economic Crime Bill censured for leaving ‘oligarch loopholes’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 March, 2022

The government’s apparent crackdown on wealthy Russians using London for money laundering and concealing ill-gotten gains has been criticised for being rushed through and laden with loopholes.

Lorries stuck at Dover

‘The red tape was horrendous’: Brexit bureaucracy impedes aid being transported to Ukraine

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 March, 2022

Implications of Brexit have reared their head once more – at the worst possible time.

Refugees

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters support waiving visa requirements for Ukrainian refugees, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
8 March, 2022

The poll, carried out by Savanta ComRes, found that 60% of voters would support the UK not requiring a visa for Ukrainian refugees to resettle in the UK, whereas just 15% would oppose such a move.

Nigel Farage’s first anti-Net Zero campaign event cancelled by venue

John Lubbock
8 March, 2022

Bolton Wanderers FC said the event “is not something the club or business want to be associated with”. 

John Bercow

Labour suspends John Bercow after report finds him guilty of bullying

Basit Mahmood
8 March, 2022

The 89-page report said that Bercow’s conduct was “so serious that he should never be allowed a pass to the Parliamentary estate; and that if he were still a MP it would have recommended expelling him from the House”.

Covid

How Tower Hamlets council stepped up to support residents and businesses during the pandemic

Motin Uz-Zaman
8 March, 2022

‘During this crisis local government has stepped up as we know headline GDP figures don’t always reflect the reality on our high streets’

Islamophobia Awareness Month

Government continues to bury its head in the sand over Islamophobia

Basit Mahmood
8 March, 2022

Kemi Badenoch refused to even use the word Islamophobia in her answers

Ukraine

International Women’s Day: Why we must stand in solidarity with the women of Ukraine

Amelia Womack
8 March, 2022

Rape in war is an act of violence that can be as destructive as bullets and bombs, yet goes unreported, is under prosecuted, and where the root causes remain unchallenged. 

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