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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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Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2021

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Weetabix engineers strike over fire and rehire plans that could see them lose up to £5,000 a year in wages

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2021

‘Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million’.

EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says Labour general secretary David Evans has ‘destroyed community organising’

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2021

“What general secretary can be considered a success when you’ve lost nearly 150,000 members and when the party’s in disarray as a result of a purge?”

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that got Corbyn elected

LFF Reporter
21 September, 2021

Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut

Tom Pollard
21 September, 2021

‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’

EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says ‘Labour Party’s purge is having a severe impact on mental health of members’

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2021

“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”.

From Zoom to Boom: Labour needs economic policies designed for a rapidly changing world

Sonny Leong
20 September, 2021

Labour’s response to the profoundly changing economic landscape requires an inspiring vision and bold leadership, writes Sonny Leong.

Union Jack and European flag

Campaigners take government back to court over redacted post-Brexit trade deal papers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 September, 2021

Social justice campaigners have taken legal action against the DIT in a dispute involving government allegedly signing trade negotiation rights in secret.

Tory heavyweights’ revolt to block Universal Credit cut rejected

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 September, 2021

A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown

Left-wing solidarity shown to Kate Osborne MP over ‘false’ investigation warning

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 September, 2021

Labour left are rallying support to MP caught up in an investigation threat issued by the party.

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