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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?

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Latest Posts

Desmond Swayne

Tory MP slammed after saying ‘voters have a right to elect a misogynist or racist’

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2021

The comments were made by Sir Desmond Swayne

A stick reading "Vote Labour"

Old Bexley and Sidcup: Labour receives biggest increase in vote share in any parliamentary by-election since 2016

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2021

Although the Tories held the seat, they did so with a significantly reduce majority from nearly 19,000 to 4,478.

Priti Patel

2 in 5 people from an ethnic minority background could become eligible to be deprived of their citizen status without warning

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Nearly 6 million people could find themselves being impacted by clause nine of the Nationality and Borders bill

Ban fire and rehire

Victory for workers: Fire and rehire at shoe manufacturer Clarks is defeated

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Nearly 1 in 10 workers have been told to re-apply for their jobs on worse terms and conditions since the first lockdown in March.

hancock

Hancock urged to explain how his pub landlord won multi-million pound Covid contract

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Yet more evidence has emerged…

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, December 2021

Basit Mahmood
1 December, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

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How Oxford is building a trans-inclusive Council

Lucy Pegg
1 December, 2021

‘We have a responsibility to fight with the same fire and determination for the rights of our transgender and non-binary friends’

Boris Johnson scratching his head

The Tories are on track to lose their majority, according to new analysis

Chris Jarvis
1 December, 2021

“The probability of a Labour-led government is now more likely than not.”

Azeem Rafiq

Racism is not banter, it shouldn’t take a cricket scandal for people to believe that

Roxana Khan-Williams
1 December, 2021

‘The road to a more equitable society involves an uncomfortable path, but it is a path worth taking’

Priti Patel

Diane Abbott MP: The government has manufactured a ‘migrant crisis’ to distract from its own terrible policies

Diane Abbott
1 December, 2021

‘Total applications for asylum seekers hit 100,000 or more at the turn of this century. They are far less than half of that now.’

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