Meet Labour’s new North East mayor Kim McGuinness as Labour sees off Jamie Driscoll
Labour has won the new North East mayoral election, defeating former Labour mayor and independent candidate Jamie Driscoll.…
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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,…
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…
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…
Inside Labour’s local election campaign: Ellie Reeves on where to spend polling day and the key contests to watch
Labour’s deputy national campaign co-ordinator Ellie Reeves has dubbed the West Midlands “the place to be on polling…
‘Nottingham faces unprecedented cuts by government diktat – this is not local democracy’
When Nottingham City Council announced it was issuing a Section 114 notice in November last year, there was…
‘If Labour can’t spend more, here’s how we spend better to fix council budgets’
On Monday, Angela Rayner described the government’s announcement of £600m of new emergency local authority funding as a…
Shock by-election loss for Hackney Labour after suspension and trans row
Hackney Labour has suffered a shock by-election defeat to the Conservatives despite the party’s huge national poll lead,…
Labour roundup: Keir’s anti-HS2 tweets, council coalition collapses, and conference awaits
Help us help you at conference Labour conference is just around the corner, and the LabourList team are…
‘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,…
