Local election 2023 full results: Labour councils won, held and lost
Labour has gained more than 500 councillors and taken control of 22 councils in this year’s local elections,…
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Local elections: Middlesbrough Labour’s Chris Cooke elected mayor
Labour has won a mayoral election in Middlesbrough with a result “beyond our expectations”, in a victory that…
Local elections: ‘Seismic’ Labour win in bellwether Plymouth council
Labour has gained overall control of Plymouth in the local elections, marking the first council of the night…
Local elections: Labour advances in North West Leicestershire, Hartlepool, Tamworth
Labour has replaced the Conservatives as the largest party in Hartlepool, failing to take overall control but making…
Local elections: Labour hold early North and Midlands councils to declare
Labour has held control of the first string of Labour-run councils to declare their results in the North…
Local elections 2023: Polls open in major test of Labour’s progress under Starmer
Voters across England are heading to the polls today for the 2023 local elections, in one of the…
‘The best campaign ever’: Swindon Labour hopes to end two-decade Tory era
“This is probably the best campaign we’ve ever had,” Swindon Labour council candidate Stanka Adamcova tells LabourList following a…
Soaring mortgage costs may win Labour more votes than its housing policies
Labour goes on the offensive today over housing, releasing new analysis suggesting children born this year have a one-in-three…
Local elections: Should Labour be talking more about council issues?
Another UK poll has Labour’s lead narrowing today, down to 15 points, though that was before the fallout from…
A social rent freeze not entirely funded by the Treasury could be self-defeating
Salford has just submitted its response to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ consultation on a…
