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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

Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack speaking at Green Party Conference

Amelia Womack criticises Starmer’s Labour for lacking ‘moral fibre’

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

“We’ve seen a total failure of leadership from those in charge, and a failure of moral fibre from those who are meant to be in opposition.”

Green Party co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer

Free bus travel or bin strikes? – The Greens running local government

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

How is the Green Party coping with running local councils?

Johnson accused of failing to deliver on stamping out online racism in football

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 October, 2021

As clubs, leagues and players take matter into their own hands, with Leeds United dedicating today’s fixture to the ‘No Room For Racism’, campaign, the PM is derided for failing to act on antiracism in football.

Jeremy Corbyn speaking on climate change

Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late

Jeremy Corbyn
22 October, 2021

‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’

Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

New Green Party co-leaders pitch left in conference speech

Chris Jarvis
22 October, 2021

With calls for public ownership of public services, scrapping universal credit and a Green New Deal, the pair set out their stall of climate action combined with a left wing economic agenda. 

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem Sikka: The UK insolvency industry is corrupt and reform is long overdue

Prem Sikka
22 October, 2021

‘The insolvency industry is the ‘wild west’ of our times’

Two unite the union flags

Unite votes to back PR voting in Westminster elections

Basit Mahmood
22 October, 2021

“Our political class has failed working people and our system is broken. It is time to change our democracy.”

Ban fire and rehire

Workers across the country urge MPs to back bill to ban Fire and Rehire

Basit Mahmood
22 October, 2021

“If the Tories don’t make it illegal, the next Labour government will.”

Tory MPs without masks

Number of Tory MPs refuse to wear masks even after Sajid Javid’s plea to ‘set an example’

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

“I’m looking round the house today and I’m looking at my Conservative colleagues… I think there’s four out of fourteen wearing a facemask this morning.”

How a wealth tax could bring in more than £200bn in extra revenue to fund public services

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

‘The accumulation of wealth is largely ignored. It’s time for this to change.’

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