Local elections: ‘The right split vote is more damaging than left splits’
Local elections are drawn-out affairs. Unlike in a general election where the result is known by the morning,…
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Tees Valley mayor results: Labour defiant on GE chances despite defeat
Labour’s Chris McEwan has lost to Conservative mayor Ben Houchen in the Tees Valley mayoral election, but seen…
Local election results 2024: Oldham Labour loses council control amid ‘Gaza backlash’
Oldham Labour has lost control of the council in north-west England, with the party losing seats to independents…
Blackpool South by-election results: Watch new MP Chris Webb’s speech after 3rd biggest swing since WW2
Labour’s Chris Webb has won an important victory in the one Westminster by-election being held amid local elections,…
Thurrock election results 2024: Labour wins council in Leave-voting target seat
Labour has won control in Thurrock council in Essex, in a significant achievement for the party in a…
Ian Murray: ‘John Swinney offers nothing new – Scotland can send a government to Westminster, not just a message’
There have been a lot of remarkable moments in Scottish politics recently. For the Scottish Labour Party many…
Local elections 2024: Live polling day updates as activists urged to give mayor candidates final push
Voters up and down the country are heading to the polls today in the last set of local…
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…
North Herts local elections: ‘We want to show Labour can demolish the blue wall’
Over the last few years, Labour has won a string of by-elections in both places it broadly expected…
Dudley: Where Labour’s local campaign began, and it cannot afford to lose
Labour notched up 22 more councils overall at last year’s English local elections, while the Conservatives lost control…
