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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

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

‘Sickening’: Tory fundraiser charges £35,000 for cricket with Rishi Sunak and £22,000 for karaoke with Liz Truss

Basit Mahmood
23 November, 2021

‘They rushed back from their Ball to vote away the hard earned savings of the poorest in our country.’

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Downing Street launches a briefing war against Downing Street as Tories turn on each other

Basit Mahmood
23 November, 2021

“There is a lot of concern inside the building about the PM … It’s just not working.”

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
22 November, 2021

A roundup of progressive news

Priti Patel

Dangerous and draconian: Why we must all oppose Priti Patel’s bill to strip citizenship without notice

Basit Mahmood
22 November, 2021

‘It completely undermines a principle of rule of law, which is that an individual has a right to know of a decision before their rights are affected’

Boris Johnson CBI

Boris Johnson stumbles over his words and rambles about Peppa Pig in bizarre speech to business leaders

Basit Mahmood
22 November, 2021

After losing his words and rifling through his papers he started to mention how Peppa Pig World could be a model for UK businesses

Starmer

Starmer slammed for ‘ditching freedom of movement pledge’

LFF Reporter
22 November, 2021

“Labour conference voted for Freedom of Movement & it is there that Labour policy has always been decided & adhered to until a policy is overturned by mechanisms built within labour since it’s inception as Labour.”

Campaigners holding signs reading "No health selloff" and "Stop privatising our NHS"

The new Health and Care Bill is a charter for corruption

Richard Burgon Cat Hobbs
22 November, 2021

‘This new Bill that will be voted on in parliament this week should really be called the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.’

Rocketing inflation to exacerbate cost of living crisis, unions warn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 November, 2021

As inflation hits a ten-year high, millions of families are at risk of plunging deeper into poverty this winter, unions have cautioned.

Young people deprived of opportunities to work in Europe

Seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU battered by Brexit, says travel industry

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 November, 2021

Young people’s opportunities to work in temporary jobs in the European Union have been significantly limited by Brexit bureaucracy, businesses in the travel sector reveal.  

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

UK government was not adequately prepared for Covid, watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 November, 2021

With time and energy lost on Brexit negotiations, the UK was not fully prepared for the pandemic, an independent watchdog has unveiled.

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