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

Chris Jarvis
Today

Who’s up and who’s down?

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Latest Posts

‘Frankly a disgrace’: Food bank use remains “well above pre-pandemic level”

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 November, 2021

Dependence on food banks is still “well above” what it was before the pandemic, with emergency parcels feeding children on the rise, says Britain’s leading food bank charity.

Alok Sharmer must take urgent action ahead of COP27

Mike Buckley: Next 12 months are vital for Alok Sharma and UK’s impact on the climate crisis

Mike Buckley
25 November, 2021

‘Keir Starmer should hold Sharma to account and ask him to update both Parliament and the public on progress made between this COP and the next.’

A photo of a pile of newspapers with the text 'Radical Roundup' overlaid

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, November 2021

Basit Mahmood
24 November, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

House of Lords

We desperately need to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber

Jenny Jones
24 November, 2021

‘Replacement of the Lords with an elected second chamber is an essential step towards restoring democracy in this country’.

Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries ridiculed for claiming incorrectly that Channel 4 receives ‘public money’

Basit Mahmood
24 November, 2021

It’s quite worrying that the minister who will decide Channel 4’s future doesn’t even know how it’s funded.

Children living in poverty

Our recovery from the pandemic must tackle the poverty and inequalities laid bare by Covid

Sioned Williams
24 November, 2021

‘Plaid Cymru has consistently called on the Welsh Government to take action on the scandalous levels of child poverty in Wales – the highest level of all the UK nations’

class pay gap

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support a universal basic income

Basit Mahmood
24 November, 2021

44% of respondents support the idea of a universal basic income compared to 23% who oppose it.

Sajid Javid speaking on the Health and Care Bill in the House of Commons

How every MP voted on the ‘NHS Corporate Takeover Bill’

Chris Jarvis
24 November, 2021

The Health and Care Bill contains heavily contested NHS reforms and has been branded by campaigners ‘a charter for corruption’ and a ‘Corporate Takeover Bill’.

Boris Johnson

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters think the government is corrupt, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
23 November, 2021

54% of those asked think the UK government is corrupt, compared to 26% who think the government is not corrupt

Pro-Palestine activists force closure of UK chemical factory

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 November, 2021

Activists from Palestine Action, a group committed to ending UK complicity with Israeli apartheid, has forced the shutdown of a factory implicated with supplying components used to make drones used by Israel.

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