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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

Christina McAnea

Unison’s continuity candidate? That’s patronising and misogynistic, says Christina McAnea

Josiah Mortimer
2 October, 2020

No-one says that about Unison’s male deputies, she said.

We can’t put the responsibility and costs of fire safety all on leaseholders

Abena Oppong-Asare
2 October, 2020

The government needs to step up and cover the costs of making our homes safe.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried

Joe Lo
2 October, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.

Prof Prem Sikka: Banning anti-capitalist books is social engineering

Prem Sikka
2 October, 2020

Will the Bible also be locked away?

Revealed: Government may intervene in Cumbria coal mine application

Tommy Greene
1 October, 2020

The council is set to approve the mine – but government could over-rule them.

Expert: Liam Fox is only still in WTO leadership race because he’s no threat to others

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

The Europeans wanted the strongest rivals out of the competition, Bill Reinsch said.

7 unnecessary projects which have been given more taxpayers’ money than the Windrush victims

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

So far, 168 victims have been given just £1.2m between them.

We locked up innocent people on a ferry before and it was a disaster

Joe Lo
1 October, 2020

The Daily Mail called it “cushy” but guards were worried about suicides and the ship nearly sunk.

Education figures hit out ‘censorship’ of anti-capitalism in new teaching guidance

Josiah Mortimer
30 September, 2020

“It’s laughable to put talking about alternatives to capitalism on par with racism.”

Ancient woodland is being ‘obliterated’ by HS2, activists warn ahead of protests

Josiah Mortimer
30 September, 2020

The protests come as felling restarts on several key sites of ancient woodland. Pic: Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve.

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