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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Union agrees timeline to recall conference to debate disaffiliation from The Labour Party

Alexandra Warren
28 August, 2021

Reports have suggested BFAWU national president Ian Hodson could be facing expulsion from the party for a possible connection to one of four groups Labour have proscribed.

Universal credit cuts will have ‘deep and far-reaching impact’, says poverty charity

Alexandra Warren
28 August, 2021

‘To give people enough relief to offset their problems, even just a little bit, and then to take it away, feels cruel,’ says one victim of the cuts.

Extinction Rebellion: Government must end investment in fossil fuels immediately

Basit Mahmood
27 August, 2021

“We know that mass participation and civil disobedience works”.

London

Prof Prem Sikka: Why audits of major corporations need to be performed by a state body and not chummy auditors

Prem Sikka
27 August, 2021

‘Profit-seeking accounting firms cannot deliver honest and robust audits. But the government continues to indulge the auditing industry’.

Tories slammed after ordering NHS trusts to describe refurbishments as ‘new hospitals’

Basit Mahmood
27 August, 2021

The guidance issued to trusts goes on to define what constitutes a new hospital.

Always learning: our manifesto for liberation, within the Green Party and beyond

Amelia Womack
27 August, 2021

‘It’s easy to assume that as time moves forward, our society becomes more progressive and accepting of previously marginalised groups. But the last few years have shown us that there is always a risk of sliding backwards on the rights of minorities’.

Brexit anniversary

How the upcoming Elections Bill will cause chaos with EU citizens’ voting rights

Maddy Dhesi
26 August, 2021

‘As it stands, the Elections Bill will disenfranchise countless citizens who do not qualify for the EU Settlement Scheme’.

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds

What does Sharon Graham’s win mean for Unite and the Labour Party

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

There is no doubt that Graham’s win will mean a major organisational shake up for Unite

Green Party members holding a banner

6 things we learnt from the first Green Party leadership hustings

Chris Jarvis
25 August, 2021

Anti-capitalism, progressive alliances, trans rights and more: here’s how the debate is shaping up.

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