2024 local election results on Friday: Labour wins key councils and new mayors despite Tees and Gaza troubles
***This live-blog of Friday’s results is now closed. We’re posting the latest results, updates, reaction and analysis on…
Blackpool
Tom Baldwin: ‘What Blackpool’s deckchairs can tell us about its by-election’
Ten years ago, Blackpool council sold off its entire stock of 6,000 municipal deckchairs, claiming the holidaymakers who…
New Labour local election poster accuses Conservatives of ‘tax double whammy’
Labour has unveiled a new punchy campaign poster accusing the Conservatives of a “tax double whammy”. The poster…
Blackpool South by-election confirmed: Meet Labour candidate Chris Webb
A by-election will take place in the Blackpool South constituency after Conservative MP Scott Benton resigned, with Labour…
Blackpool by-election petition: ‘Here’s what Labour can do for towns like mine’
Over the past decade, residents like me in Blackpool and other seaside towns across the United Kingdom have…
‘Labour must reverse council cuts and base funding on need, not local wealth’
As the saying goes, all politics is local. For all the spectacle and drama that Westminster politics brings,…
Lancashire local election gains: Labour take South Ribble, West Lancashire and Blackpool
Labour’s local election campaign has had another boost after it gained a three councils in Lancashires on Friday…
WATCH: Starmer in conversation with former Labour voters in Blackpool
Keir Starmer spoke on Thursday to former Labour voters in Blackpool about three of his party’s policy proposals…
Starmer’s Blackpool visit: the risks of his summer tour and what it must achieve
Keir Starmer has vowed to “sweat blood over months and years” to earn “respect” from voters. The Labour leader…
Starmer: ‘I will sweat blood over months and years to earn respect of voters’
Keir Starmer has vowed to “sweat blood over months and years” to earn “respect” from voters, after he…
