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

Chris Jarvis
Today

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

EU Amazon workers are winning the fight against exploitation. Could the UK be next?

Joana Ramiro
24 May, 2018

Amazon Italy has finally agreed to work with unions, Spanish fulfilment centres are on strike, and German workers have erupted in protest. Amazon.co.uk is next on the line.

housing UK

The Tories must give us houses – or pack up and move

Kevin Gulliver
24 May, 2018

Successive Conservative governments let the housing crisis spiral out of control. If they don’t want to tackle it, someone else should be at the helm.

How ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ threaten the very existence of our NHS

Kane Shaw
23 May, 2018

Two major developments in our health service could open it up to private takeovers. They must be stopped.

Why we’re fighting Jeremy Hunt’s NHS plans in the High Court

Allyson Pollock
23 May, 2018

The Health Secretary’s plans for the NHS could mark the back-door privatisation of our health service. Thousands are backing a judicial review to halt the controversial shake-up.

TUC leader says public need more say on the Brexit deal

Josiah Mortimer
23 May, 2018

Pressure is piling on the government to ensure greater scrutiny of the Brexit deal. Will the TUC end up backing a ‘people’s vote’?

NHS staff strike against plans to outsource low-paid workers to arms-length companies

Josiah Mortimer
23 May, 2018

NHS Trusts are setting up private companies in a bid to reduce their VAT bills – but staff fear the new bodies could threaten the future of our NHS.

Women in Yarl’s Wood barred from speaking to visiting MPs

Joana Ramiro
22 May, 2018

A surprise visit by the Home Affairs Committee gave many the hope to be listened to by politicians. Instead, they were locked up.

Molly Scott Cato: Corbyn should join us and demand a vote on the Brexit deal

Molly Scott Cato
22 May, 2018

It’s time for Labour to do what the majority of its members and MPs want: get off the fence and join the campaign for the People’s Vote.

Why Carillion happened – and what needs to change

John Lehal
22 May, 2018

Following from last week’s damning report into disgraced construction giant Carillion, John Lehal explains how auditing and company management needs to change.

An anti-Brexit peer just accused the Tories of trying to “seize control of the state”

Joana Ramiro
21 May, 2018

Andrew Adonis pulled no punches when quizzing the Government on disproportionately increasing the number of Conservative peers.

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