News Councillors in Reform-won Doncaster were ‘sacrificial lambs over winter fuel’ Labour local election candidates who lost their seats to Reform in Doncaster have blamed Keir Starmer and Rachel… Luke O'Reilly 8th May, 2025, 11:20 am
Analysis Local elections fallout deepens as PM takes thinly veiled swipe at left MPs and Labour loses Doncaster council The fallout from Labour’s grim local election performance has deepened as the only Labour-held council fell to Reform… Tom Belger 3rd May, 2025, 7:48 am
Analysis Local election results 2025: How Labour did in each council and mayor race The moment polls closed in the 2025 local elections on Thursday night, party chair Ellie Reeves issued an… Tom Belger, Daniel Green & Morgan Jones 2nd May, 2025, 5:00 pm
News Doncaster election results: Labour mayor slams PM after slim win over Reform Labour’s Ros Jones has won the contest to be Doncaster mayor for the next four years by around… Morgan Jones & Tom Belger 2nd May, 2025, 5:56 am
News Local elections: Three ways to measure Labour’s success tonight This set of local elections aren’t set to be smooth sailing for Labour, but there’s a wide span… Morgan Jones 1st May, 2025, 4:59 pm
News Labour forecast to lose Doncaster Council to Reform UK in local elections Reform is set to take control of Doncaster, where Energy Security Ed Miliband is an MP, from Labour… Daniel Green 15th March, 2025, 6:00 am
News Tony Blair’s sports minister enters race for Sheffield mayor as deadline looms Former sports minister Richard Caborn has entered the race to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of South Yorkshire.… Peter Edwards 25th January, 2018, 8:52 am
Comment Luke Akehurst: Our losses in local government were unprecedented Every May since 2011 I have written a guide to what might constitute success for Labour in the… Luke Akehurst 8th May, 2017, 1:22 pm
News Corbyn aims to ban tax-dodging firms from winning Whitehall contracts Jeremy Corbyn today pledges to put ethics and tax transparency at the heart of the government’s £200bn spending on… Emma Bean 13th April, 2017, 9:20 am
Comment Bex Bailey: Labour has some brilliant women in local government – now we need to act to ensure there are more of them It’s easy to feel down about women’s progress at the moment – not least in local government –… Bex Bailey 19th February, 2017, 7:00 am