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

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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Refugees

Labour MPs denounce the Nationality and Borders Bill as anti-refugee and propose reforms to welcome refugees to the UK

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2021

The statement demonstrates in clear language, for the first time, that members of the Parliamentary Labour Party not only oppose the Bill, but reject its anti-refugee sentiment

Boris Johnson with the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, who has been charged with investigating the Number 10 Christmas Party

No 10 refuses to say whether man investigating the Christmas party… was at the party

Chris Jarvis
8 December, 2021

A number of journalists have reported that Number 10 won’t confirm whether the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case attended the party in 2020

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson humiliated at PMQs as he continues to insist ‘there was no party’

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2021

‘They knew there was a party, they knew it was against the rules, they knew they couldn’t admit it and they thought it was funny.’

A photo of boxes of food in a food bank

Food banks have become the norm. But poverty should never be normal.

Luke Fletcher
8 December, 2021

The UK government should take responsibility for addressing the raging income inequalities and the broken benefits system which have pushed so many into poverty.

The Sun is ridiculed for its front page and muted coverage of Downing Street Christmas Party

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2021

‘I wonder why the latest fiasco isn’t all over the front page today’

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Ministers refuse to go on radio and TV after government caught ‘lying about Christmas party’

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2021

Health secretary Sajid Javid was forced to cancel interviews this morning and not a single government minister came out to bat for Downing Street after the leaking of the footage

Boris Johnson

EXCLUSIVE: Voters think Boris Johnson has betrayed the North, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2021

41% of respondents think Boris Johnson’s government has betrayed the North of England, compared to 29% who think they have not.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Wera Hobhouse MP: One year on from the Government’s Ten Point Plan – how are they doing on electric vehicles?

Wera Hobhouse MP
7 December, 2021

‘We need an emergency 10-year programme to upgrade insulation in every home and to ensure new homes are built to zero-carbon standards’

Boris Johnson CBI

Tories set to lose their majority, according to new poll

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2021

Notable Tory MPs who could lose their seats include Iain Duncan Smith, Graham Brady, Theresa Villiers, Steve Baker and Ian Levy.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2021

A roundup of progressive news

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