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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

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Dominic Raab

Top five awful things said by the new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab

Joana Ramiro
9 July, 2018

Dominic Raab has just been appointed the new Brexit Secretary. But the MP is widely disliked in Westminster, and not without good reason.

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Inequality is affecting our mental health – here’s how

Richard Wilkinson Kate Pickett
9 July, 2018

Social and economic inequality are not affecting our pockets, but our nation’s mental health too. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson write.

Davis resignation: Just another Brexit blunder or is it the end of the line for May?

Joana Ramiro
9 July, 2018

Brexit secretary David Davis has left Theresa May in the lurch, days after she announced her final EU divorce plans. But after months of catastrophes how serious is this latest hit?

This Pride weekend, let’s remember the EU’s role protecting LGBT rights

Eloise Todd
7 July, 2018

The Tories’ Brexit plans still pose a risk to fundamental rights, writes Best for Britain CEO Eloise Todd.

Nationalise water industry without compensation, say campaigners

Josiah Mortimer
6 July, 2018

“If anything, the public should be compensated for what’s happened – it’s been an absolute disaster.”

Whitehall

After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state

Prem Sikka
6 July, 2018

We have missed far too many opportunities to steer our economy in a positive direction. It’s time for the left to address the role of the state today, says Prof. Prem Sikka.

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70 years after the creation of the NHS, it’s time for a National Care Service

Barbara Keeley
6 July, 2018

Launching a new Fabian Society report on the care sector, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care says the current system is ‘manifestly unfair’.

“Accidental Americans” must be protected from draconian US tax system

Alex Mayer
5 July, 2018

A British pensioner lived her entire life on the right side of the law, but is now being hunted by US tax officers because she was born in New York. MEP Alex Mayer writes.

London politicians join campaign to end no-fault evictions

Joana Ramiro
5 July, 2018

Housing campaigners have long been calling for an end to Section 21. Now two London Assembly members are calling on Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban it in the capital.

Why the national minimum wage needs to rise to £10 for all workers

John Earls
5 July, 2018

A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, John Earls writes.

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