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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?

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Latest Posts

The ownership charter: How co-operatives could transform the private sector

Bill Kerry
31 August, 2018

The Labour & Co-operative Part​ies​ ha​ve​ recently committed to doubling the size of the co-operative economy, but why not have the majority of employees in the UK employed in fairer, more democratic forms of business by 2050?

Diversifying the media must start in classrooms, not newsrooms

Jack Ashton
31 August, 2018

Journalism is a closed shop with 51% of top journalists having been privately educated and only 19% having attended a state comprehensive, in comparison to 90% of the general population.

Wonga is dead but exploitative lending will only end when we solve the cost of living crisis

Simon Youel
31 August, 2018

Wonga is just one symptom of a broken economic model.

University cleaners are celebrating being brought in-house as victory could set precedent for others

Joana Ramiro
30 August, 2018

SOAS cleaners have been brought in-house after a 12 year long battle. Joana Ramiro reports.

The time is now: Labour must support a People’s Vote and give millions a voice

30 August, 2018

With 3 out of 4 Labour members wanting a People’s Vote, Rosie McKenna argues the left of the party now has a unique chance to define the party’s position on Brexit.

Sally Hunt: We are bound to strike when heads get pay rises and staff get zilch

Sally Hunt
30 August, 2018

Lecturers are balloting for strike action after years of plummeting pay. General secretary, Sally Hunt, urges university and college bosses to do the right thing and accept the demands.

There’s a reason Northern Ireland has been without a government for nearly a year: Brexit

Peter McLoughlin
29 August, 2018

This stalemate started with Brexit and will end in Brussels, says Queen’s University Belfast’s Dr Peter McLoughlin.

Interview with Captain SKA: John McDonnell was right – we need a new movement for political music

Josiah Mortimer
29 August, 2018

As the far right rear their ugly head again, the band that called Theresa May a ‘LiarLiar’ tell LFF it’s time for left-wing music to get organised.

Greens launch investigation after former deputy leader candidate’s father convicted for child rape

Josiah Mortimer
29 August, 2018

Equalities spokesperson and deputy candidate appointed father as election agent after he had been charged with multiple offences.

Children at school development centre

We need to start taking social mobility seriously – the alternative is too grim to face

Justin Madders
28 August, 2018

Despite the government’s many promises, not much has been done to tackle the social inequality spreading in Britain. Justin Madders MP writes.

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