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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?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

The HS2 route will stop at Manchester

‘A Conservative con job’: North up in arms as plug pulled on northern powerhouse promises

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 November, 2021

Pledges to address England’s regional inequality transpires into broken promises with the scaling back of Northern Powerhouse Rail. Naturally, northerners are in uproar.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Number 10 denies Boris Johnson plans to sue The New European

Chris Jarvis
19 November, 2021

Number 10 has denied that a press officer called the paper’s editor-in-chief and claimed that Boris Johnson would be taking legal action over allegations made in a story published earlier in the week.

Boris Johnson

‘It’s grotesque’: Tory MPs want taxpayers to cover legal costs for sleaze cases

Basit Mahmood
19 November, 2021

‘To now demand taxpayers cover costs for sleaze investigations is shameful hypocrisy.’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Prof Prem Sikka: Government is handing billions to speculators but squeezing pensioners and the poor

Prem Sikka
19 November, 2021

‘Compare the inhuman treatment of pensioners and other vulnerable groups with welfare programme operated for the benefit of finance industry and speculators.’

Priti Patel

Priti Patel’s bill to remove citizenship without notice slammed as ‘utterly draconian’

Basit Mahmood
19 November, 2021

‘This clause would give Priti Patel unprecedented power to remove your citizenship in secret, without even having to tell you’

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Keir Starmer refuses five times to say he thinks Corbyn would have been a better PM than Boris Johnson

LFF Reporter
19 November, 2021

Starmer was repeatedly asked on BBC Radio 4 Today whether he thought Corbyn would have been a better PM than Johnson.

Wembley

MPs voted by proxy while attending Euro 2020 match

Basit Mahmood
18 November, 2021

Among the MPs who voted by proxy so that they could attend an England game were Tory chief whip Mark Spencer, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Policing Minister Kit Malthouse.

Nadine Dorries tweet

Nadine Dorries deletes tweet trying to ‘police BBC’s political editor’

Basit Mahmood
18 November, 2021

“You know being Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport doesn’t mean you’re the boss of journalism right.”

Glasgow COP protest

Environmentalists welcome the input of ‘rights of nature’ movement in Glasgow

Tommy Greene
18 November, 2021

‘Rights of nature legislation could soon see communities bringing legal actions against polluters’

NHS

Diane Abbott MP: There’s a long running campaign to privatise the NHS. We must fight back.

Diane Abbott
18 November, 2021

‘The NHS winter crisis has its roots in government policy.’

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