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

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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Green Party co-leadership candidate Tamsin Omond shows irreverent side at book launch

LFF Reporter
1 October, 2021

Co-leadership candidate said talking is “not a very good thing to get good at” and it “doesn’t really align with my politics.”

Furloughed written in a notebook

Final day of furlough: ‘Westminster is inflicting a perfect storm of catastrophes’

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

A cut to Universal Credit, rising fuel and food prices, the end of the cap on energy bills – and now the government has ended the furlough scheme

‘Police are institutionally misogynistic’ says former chief constable

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

Sue Fish says the nature of the British policing model ‘has to fundamentally change now’

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

A new voting system: Will Labour ever accept sharing power to win?

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

Here’s what happened at Compass’s Labour Conference fringe rally on the the possibility of Labour backing electoral reform

Starmer

“We’re clearly not there yet”: Mixed reaction to Keir Starmer’s conference speech

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 September, 2021

Interrupted by chants of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”, Starmer attempted to present Labour as a serious alternative to the Tory government.

An abdication of responsibility: Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union’s disaffiliation with Labour

Alex Maguire
29 September, 2021

The union is separating itself from Labour but not from Labour debate, in which case why disaffiliate?

Nick Thomas-Symonds: ‘No Labour home secretary will ever defund the police’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 September, 2021

Shadow home secretary pitched Labour as the party of law and order at the conference.

Keir Starmer under fire for welcoming the Sun to Labour conference

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 September, 2021

Rumour has it that Starmer had a private meeting with the Sun newspaper during the Labour party conference in Brighton.

TSSA leader: Unions will overturn Starmer’s leadership rule changes

Josiah Mortimer
28 September, 2021

The Starmer-backing union leader also hit out at the continued suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, branding it ‘disgraceful’.

Labour MP: Voting for Starmer then quitting is ‘like forgetting to flush’

Josiah Mortimer
28 September, 2021

The Labour left is not mincing its words.

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