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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

NHS

Our cash-starved NHS is being forced to turn to the private sector for investment and capacity

Richard Bourne John Lister
14 October, 2021

‘For the first time ever, more that 50% of an important NHS funded service – hip and knee replacements – are being paid for privately rather than delivered by the NHS.’

Islamophobia Awareness Month

The Conservative Party’s appalling record on Islamophobia

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2021

Councillors who have shared posts calling for Muslims to be deported, described Saudis as “sand peasants” and shared material comparing Asian people to dogs have all been quietly reinstated.

Right-wing ‘anti-woke’ warriors launch alarming ideological campaign against National Trust

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2021

The directors of Restore Trust, reportedly include a financier who has backed a leading climate-sceptic lobby group.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

A phone with the Amazon logo on screen

Amazon could owe drivers £140 million over employee rights claims

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2021

Amazon could owe thousands of drivers who deliver its parcels an average of £10,500 compensation for each year they have delivered for the company.

Hate crimes rise to highest level on record

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2021

Racially motivated hate crimes have risen by 12%.

Young people COP26

Why the inclusion of climate and nature priorities in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill is a sign of progress

Natalie Bennett
12 October, 2021

‘The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was slightly unusual in that it started its life in the House of Lords.’

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Kim Johnson MP: Starmer should apologise and promise he and his team will never again write for The S*n

Kim Johnson
12 October, 2021

‘When his S*n article was published after the conference, we felt doubly betrayed’

Northern Ireland protocol crisis worsens as row unfolds on Twitter

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 October, 2021

The clash between ministers over the NI protocol intensified over the weekend, with key negotiators thrashing out their differences on Twitter.

Covid

Report by MPs says government’s response to Covid was ‘one of the worst ever public health failures’

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2021

The UK has one of the world’s highest death tolls from Covid, with more than 138,000 deaths

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