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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
News

From low attendance to little casework: Facts show Nigel Farage’s appalling record as MP

Basit Mahmood
7 July, 2025

So much for being a man of the people, it’s been a bad year for Farage.

Reform UK
News

Reform UK council leader called out for using 20th anniversary of 7/7 bombings to ‘stoke hate’

Olivia Barber
7 July, 2025

‘London is better than the hate filled Leader of Kent Council’

Neil Kinnock
News

Neil Kinnock warns Corbyn and Sultana’s new breakaway party will only boost Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
7 July, 2025

‘The reality is and everybody knows it, a division in the anti-Conservative, anti-right-wing vote can only assist the parties of the right.’

A photo of four of the five Reform UK MPs in Parliament
News

Reform’s James McMurdock gives up whip over Covid loans

Olivia Barber
7 July, 2025

The number of Reform MPs has gone down from five to four, again

Woman sits in window
News

Calls for better data and safer services as women sleeping rough go undercounted

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 July, 2025

“We cannot ever hope to end rough sleeping if we are not even able to assess the scope of the problem to begin with.”

Smear of the week – Telegraph claims Andy Burnham is doing more damage to Labour than Jeremy Corbyn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 July, 2025

The former MP offers no consideration that Burnham or Khan might actually hold principled positions and that the idea that resisting attacks on disabled people might be a moral imperative, rather than a political manoeuvre.

Right-wing media watch: Sun throws fit over academic research it doesn’t understand

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 July, 2025

One might even say the Sun makes a mockery of its own article by ending on such a sensible note.

Child poverty in the UK
News

Scotland has had lower poverty rates than UK for two decades, analysis shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025

“The biggest single factor is the level of social security available for families.”

Right-Wing Watch

Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025

As we celebrate its 78th year, our beloved NHS faces an ongoing threat: death by privatisation. The question is: Can Labour be trusted to protect what Nye Bevan built, or will it preside over its gradual dismantling? And what would happen if, God forbid, Farage and Reform got into power?

EU
News

Two-thirds of small businesses would now vote remain – new analysis finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025

Many small businesses have struggled to adapt to new customs checks paperwork, and regulatory requirements, which have cost them time, money, and market competitiveness.

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