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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

Majority of voters don’t know crucial May election info, poll finds

Lucy Skoulding
9 April, 2021

Charities are urging people to raise awareness of the upcoming vote

Sian Berry

Greens launch London Mayoral campaign: Key policies in brief

Lucy Skoulding
9 April, 2021

Sian Berry is standing for the Greens in London, and yesterday she launched the party’s manifesto

NHS

Doctor calls government actions ‘complete dereliction of duty’ at People’s Covid Inquiry

Samantha Wathen
9 April, 2021

A consultant has attacked the government’s handling of PPE procurement during the pandemic

Education

National Education Union: End ‘intolerable’ inspection regime and unfair assessments

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021

One in three staff intend to leave the education profession in the next five years

Four years of the Tories’ two-child limit: Here’s what it’s done

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021

If the Tory policy was scrapped now 200,000 children would immediately be lifted out of poverty

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, April 2021

Josiah Mortimer
8 April, 2021

Our roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

Deliveroo riders strike after £2 hourly wage discovery as company trades on Stock Exchange

Lucy Skoulding
7 April, 2021

‘After the pandemic more people than ever understand this exploitation is no way to treat anyone’

Welsh flag

Welsh elections: Labour, Plaid Cymru and Lib Dems’ key policies

Lucy Skoulding
7 April, 2021

A rundown of the key manifesto points for three major parties

Human trafficking

New stealth legislation could see safeguards for human trafficking survivors eroded

Lauren Medlicott
7 April, 2021

Huy was beaten, tortured, and raped by his traffickers – and it was him that ended up in prison

The Tories’ shameful silence over human rights abuses in Sri Lanka

Claudia Webbe
7 April, 2021

As a former colonial power, the UK has a duty to act to protect the people of Sri Lanka.

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