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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?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Report into how rapist facing trial was appointed Green Party election agent delayed

Josiah Mortimer
21 December, 2018

The report was originally meant to be published in November but some of those criticised are understood to have held up publication.

housing UK

EXCLUSIVE: Affordable housing provider in dispute over ‘unaffordable’ leases

Sue Phillips
21 December, 2018

Are leasehold extensions making so-called ‘affordable homes’ unaffordable?

Christmas walkout: Tower of London workers go on strike

Joana Ramiro
20 December, 2018

Workers at three of the six royal palaces managed by this charity will be walking out over pension cuts

This is why BBC studios across the country are being picketed this week

Joana Ramiro
20 December, 2018

Extinction Rebellion activists will be protesting outside broadcasting sites in London, Manchester and Birmingham.

A court has ruled that the Tories’ pension reform is actually age discrimination

Joana Ramiro
20 December, 2018

The firefighters’ union case against the government’s pension scheme was upheld by the Court of Appeal.

Molly Scott Cato: As Remainers, we can’t assume we’ll win a second referendum

Molly Scott Cato
19 December, 2018

The right’s rhetoric in 2016 was frighteningly effective. Remainers need to be prepared and speak to the ‘left behind’, writes Green MEP Molly Scott Cato.

Brexit

Backers of the ‘Norway option’ are as guilty of ignoring Leavers as anyone

Cathleen Clarke
19 December, 2018

A young People’s Vote campaigner hits back at former Labour minister John Denham’s critique of the Remain campaign.

Amid the Brexit chaos, UK climate policy risks being totally derailed

Sue Ferns
19 December, 2018

We can’t let Brexit derail efforts to avert catastrophic climate change, writes the Prospect union’s Sue Ferns.

Christmas appeal: We need your help to build a progressive media

Josiah Mortimer
19 December, 2018

This year has shown how much we need campaigning journalism.

home office immigration

How the Tories’ new immigration policy will undermine workers’ rights

Owen Espley
18 December, 2018

On International Migrants Day, Owen Espley explains how Brexit will make life even worse for migrant workers.

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