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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

New figures show it’s time to end the privileged position of religion in public life

Andrew Copson
12 September, 2018

Most people aren’t religious – so why is the Church still granted a special role in public institutions?

We’ve got a plan to end insecure work and low pay – and Labour are backing it

Carolyn Jones
12 September, 2018

Carolyn Jones, Director of the Institute of Employment Rights, looks at how to tackle insecure work and low pay – with policies backed by John McDonnell over the weekend.

An open letter to Sadiq Khan: It’s time to start supporting trade union battles at Uber

Yaseen Aslam
12 September, 2018

“The IWGB are trying to ensure a new generation of workers succeed, just like our fathers did before us.”

To win another referendum, Remainers have to have to learn some lessons first

Natalie Bennett
12 September, 2018

Understanding what caused the 2016 result is crucial to seeing what needs to be on offer in any future vote, says former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett.

Without banking reform, another crash is just around the corner #10YearsOn

Steve Turner
11 September, 2018

In the first of a series on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner argues that without banking reform, we are always at risk of another crash.

The TUC has just pledged to campaign on trans-friendly changes to Gender Recognition Act

Joana Ramiro
11 September, 2018

A motion pushing for a “simplified, free, statutory gender-recognition process based on self-declaration” was passed nem con.

sutton grammar school children

Why are we still so accepting of public schools? They breed social inequality

Kevin Gulliver
11 September, 2018

Public schools perpetuate a system of social immobility. Kevin Gulliver argues that to build a fair Britain we need to end the likes of Eton and Harrow.

Steve Baker and the ERG are ideologues with no answers to Britain’s Brexit mess

Ian Murray
10 September, 2018

Labour MP Ian Murray: The hard Brexiteers threatening to rebel over Theresa May’s Chequers deal are clueless.

Game, set, match workers: History shows that when workers organise, we win #TUC150

Sally Hunt
10 September, 2018

“Everything we have today has been fought for by people just like us, who came together, and sometimes died for each other, to give us decency and dignity.”

Forgotten history: Women’s role in the minimum wage debates of the early 20thC #TUC150

Nan Sloane
10 September, 2018

Women were at the forefront of the ‘anti-sweating’ campaign and early minimum wage debates, writes Nan Sloane in a new history of the labour movement.

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