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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

UK police

Crime will be a bigger policy issue at the next election, Labour can take a lead on it if it gets it right

Mike Buckley
18 February, 2022

Labour is right to make crime and policing a key battleground

The Right’s demographic anxiety

John Lubbock
18 February, 2022

Racial anxieties are moving from the online far right to mainstream politics.

Steve baker

Fed up constituents set up ‘Steve Baker Watch’ over MP’s climate stance

Basit Mahmood
18 February, 2022

‘People in High Wycombe have had enough of MP Steve Baker, his uncaring attitude to his constituents & his work with climate-denying cronies’

Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: 5 takeaways from the latest episode

Basit Mahmood
17 February, 2022

A roundup of the Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast

Oliver Dowden

Tory chair seeks to defend voter suppression as ‘perfectly legitimate efforts to reform electoral laws’

Basit Mahmood
17 February, 2022

Oliver Dowden made the comments during a speech to the Heritage Foundation

Craig Mackinlay

Tory MP Craig Mackinlay hires staff linked to climate denial group

Basit Mahmood
17 February, 2022

Mackinlay has hired two members of staff linked to Net Zero Watch

Radical Roundup

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

Basit Mahmood
16 February, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

How US think tank the Heritage Foundation influences the Conservative Party

John Lubbock
16 February, 2022

Oliver Dowden went to give a speech about ‘cancel culture’ this week to an organisation that wants to ban books they disagree with.

Nigel Farage on GB News

GB News promotes hard right policy of offshore refugee detention

Chris Jarvis
16 February, 2022

GB News has published an article publicising a report form the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange calling for refugees to be processed in offshore detention centres

class pay gap

Why tackling the class pay gap should also be a priority for progressives

Basit Mahmood
16 February, 2022

People from working-class backgrounds who enter ‘elite’ universities and professions still earn on average £6,400 less than peers drawn from the middle-class.

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