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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

Bedding banks

Bedding banks appear alongside food banks as fuel poverty kicks in

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 March, 2022

‘This is poverty at its demeaning and degrading worst.’

Amelia Womack delivering a pre-recorded speech at Green Party conference

Tributes for Amelia Womack following announcement she won’t seek re-election as Green Party deputy leader

Chris Jarvis
5 March, 2022

‘Her commitment to building a better future has been truly inspirational’

Amelia Womack delivering a pre-recorded speech at Green Party Conference

Amelia Womack won’t stand for re-election as Green Party deputy leader

Chris Jarvis
5 March, 2022

Her eight year stint will come to an end in September

International response

Solidarity builds to help Poland accommodate refugees fleeing Ukraine

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 March, 2022

As central Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees with open arms, the international community ramps up efforts to support primary receiving countries like Poland.

Ben-Elliot

Conservative party co-chair Ben Elliot deletes company webpage boasting about Russia ‘elite’ connections

Basit Mahmood
4 March, 2022

The Labour Party has also written to Johnson, demanding that he sack Elliot as co-chair, after he secured nearly £2 million of Russia-linked donations for the party

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

Tax ‘dirty profits’ to ease cost of living crisis, Green Party co-leaders say

Chris Jarvis
4 March, 2022

‘While people freeze in their homes, this government is warm and cosy in bed with dirty energy companies who are making profits from the misery of millions.’

Denial of rights to Chagos Islanders exposes the cruel reality of UK citizenship policy

John Lubbock
4 March, 2022

Opposition peers in the House of Lords won a vote to give citizenship rights to descendants of Chagos Islanders evicted by the UK in the 1970s.

A failure to tame corporate power has been a disaster for society

Prem Sikka
4 March, 2022

‘We live in a world dominated by corporations who control the supply of food, water, medicines, energy, transport, savings, pensions, deadly weapons and most other things.’

Von Der Leyen

Mike Buckley: European leaders are now looking beyond NATO for their own defence

Mike Buckley
4 March, 2022

‘The EU will define itself as a military actor, focused on its own defence and limiting Russian aggression.’

Gavin Williamson

‘Rewarded for failure’: Gavin Williamson mocked after receiving knighthood

Basit Mahmood
4 March, 2022

‘Cock it up. Know where the skeletons are. Resign. Arise Sir ……..’

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