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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?

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried

Josiah Mortimer
16 September, 2020

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

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Health Secretary breached party funding rules over ‘impermissible’ donation

Josiah Mortimer
16 September, 2020

But Hancock avoided a fine over the donation from a Danish investor.

Wales’ top legal adviser: How the Internal Markets Bill represents a power grab

Jeremy Miles
16 September, 2020

Jeremy Miles MS, Counsel General for the Welsh Government, sets out the major problems with the Tories’ latest Brexit legislation.

Andrew Fisher: Socialists in the Labour party should stay and fight

Andrew Fisher
16 September, 2020

As discontent grows on the Labour left, those who backed Corbyn still have a key role, writes Jeremy Corbyn’s former head of policy.

Tories rapped for misleading public over benefits of Japan trade deal

Josiah Mortimer
16 September, 2020

Full Fact says the government has overstated the value of a new ‘£1.5 billion’ UK-Japan trade deal.

The Green Party needs to answer some fundamental questions

15 September, 2020

Compass Greens write: “The party needs a new strategy. More of the same won’t deliver.”

EXCLUSIVE: “Unions and employers are meeting all the time. The only empty chairs are for ministers” – TUC leader

Josiah Mortimer
15 September, 2020

We speak to the trade union movement leader about bad bosses, Brexit law-breaking – and her experience of working with the Tories.

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The myth of Labour’s ‘middle-class takeover’ – and why class isn’t the job you do

Gill Cookson
15 September, 2020

We need to look beyond lazy old stereotypes when it comes to Britain’s relationship with class.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

Britain’s pandemic response shows we can move beyond a militarised economy

Kate Hudson
15 September, 2020

Under pressure, arms manufacturers have shifted from making weapons to stocking our hospitals. Why not make it permanent?

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It’s not just about the chlorinated chicken – the potential dangers of an UK-US trade deal

Sophia Dourou
14 September, 2020

Panelists highlighted the risks a UK-US trade deal posed to food standards, workers’ rights and the environment.

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