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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?

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Latest Posts

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, January 2022

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

Linden Kemkaran

Tory Islamophobia: Candidate who shared tweet claiming Muslims have ‘nasty culture’ becomes association chair

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2022

Kemkaran has also previously retweeted users who accused Labour MP Naz Shah, of not being “white enough” to have experienced Bradford’s “no-go areas”.

Tory MPs use energy price hikes to argue for more drilling of oil and gas from North Sea

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2022

In a letter to the Telegraph, the MPs ‘appeal for a new approach to energy security’,

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From the Editor: Our plan for a bigger and better LFF in 2022

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2022

I thought I’d write this note to update you on where we are at LFF, our exciting plans for the year ahead and most of all to thank you, for your continued support.

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Keir Starmer offers ‘contract with British people’ based on ‘security, prosperity and respect’

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2022

Starmer said it was not unpatriotic to point out the country’s flaws

Sadiq Khan

Cannabis to be decriminalised in London by Sadiq Khan

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2022

Police officers told not to arrest young people caught with cannabis, ketamine or speed as part of a pilot scheme.

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Voters think the government is doing a bad job on almost every major issue facing the country

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2022

On the NHS, 70 percent say the government is doing a bad job, while on crime 59 percent say the government is performing badly.

Boris Johnson

Prof Prem Sikka: The Tory government has used the cover of Brexit for its never-ending class wars

Prem Sikka
1 January, 2022

‘Promises can enrol people but many can’t easily be delivered.’

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

Burnt-out nurses working for free to keep NHS running – survey finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 December, 2021

Almost two years into the pandemic, and exhausted and overwhelmed nurses are working long hours, often without pay, in order to keep the NHS afloat, a new study has revealed.

Migrant crisis

UK is ‘losing its moral authority’: Calls ramped up for government to reopen safe routes for refugees

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 December, 2021

One of the most harrowing images of 2021 has to be that of a damaged inflatable dinghy that had been carrying refugees, washed up on a beach near Wimereux, France. The incident sparked a wave of dissent about the government’s tough immigration policies.

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