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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?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

workers rights
Opinion

New employment rights will make defining an employee more important than ever

Luke Raikes
1 September, 2025

‘It is now more important than ever to address a surprisingly difficult question: who will be entitled to these employment rights’

A photo of Sarah Pochin, Reform UK's candidate for the Runcorn and Helsby by-election
News

Reform’s Sarah Pochin ridiculed after blaming ‘Labour bureaucracy’ for lake drying up

Basit Mahmood
1 September, 2025

That’s quite a take…

Kemi Badenoch
News

Kemi Badenoch’s pledge to ‘get all our oil and gas out of North Sea’ torn apart

Olivia Barber
1 September, 2025

“It’s a mature basin. There’s barely any gas left”

A photo of the late Sharon Carby, who Reform had picked as their Croyon mayoral candidate
News

Reform picked dead woman to run for a London mayoral election

Olivia Barber
1 September, 2025

The party’s vetting and candidate selection failures keep coming thick and fast

Reform UK
News

Isabel Oakeshott fact-checked by X over misleading claim about big business backing Reform UK conference

Basit Mahmood
1 September, 2025

‘Well. You look really stupid now’

disability
News

Disability rights campaigners demand disabled people be central to welfare reform

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 August, 2025

“The absence of disabled voices in the design of welfare systems results in processes that are degrading, overly bureaucratic, and often unfit for purpose—sometimes even life-threatening.”

A bus in Greater Manchester
News

Greater Manchester MPs back free school bus pass for homeless children

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 August, 2025

Families placed far from their homes often find themselves unable to walk to their previous schools, creating additional stress and barriers to education.

News

International scientists reject UK research jobs due to soaring visa fees, putting vital cancer research at risk

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 August, 2025

“It’s the equivalent of saying the Premier League cannot hire any footballers who come from overseas. What would that do to high-quality football? It would disintegrate – and that is exactly what they are doing to us in science.”

News

Pro-immigration policies and green energy adoption behind socialist Spain’s burgeoning economy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 August, 2025

Spain’s welcoming and liberal approach to immigration is paying economic dividends.

Farage
News

Christian leaders condemn Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plans: ‘Beneath us as a nation’, top bishop says

Basit Mahmood
29 August, 2025

‘It is the Christian way to meet those asking for help with compassion and understanding’

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