Updated: Council by-elections: Labour retains heartland seats as UKIP sink
Labour held five seats in council by-elections last night as the slide in the UKIP vote continued. Jeremy…
Local government
Updated: Council by-elections: Labour make gains in south-east England
Labour made gains from the Tories and UKIP on another busy night of council by-elections. Jeremy Corbyn’s party…
Joe Anderson: Chancellor’s cash an insult to the north after years of austerity
“It’s a wicked and cynical business offering superficially simple solutions to complex challenges,” Philip Hammond told the Conservative party conference…
Council by-election: Labour picks up seats on bumper night of votes
Labour made two gains on a big night of council by-elections. Jeremy Corbyn’s party picked up seats in…
Unite: Voters should punish the Tories for these wicked cuts to our local services
Local councils are being bled dry by the government’s manic devotion to austerity. On average councils receive 40…
Nearly 50 of Labour’s top targets seats will use all-women shortlists
Candidates for nearly 50 of Labour’s top 76 target seats will be picked from all-women shortlists, the party’s…
Naushabah Khan: Rise in rough sleeping underlines human cost of austerity
A damming report published this week by the National Audit Office (NAO), the public spending watchdog, showed a…
Weekly survey: Sarah Champion, women in local government and Brexit
Last week saw a wave of controversy over an article by Sarah Champion in The Sun in which…
Labour’s shortfall in women councillors revealed in new report
More than 3,000 more women councillors must be elected if England is to achieve a gender balance in…
John Denham: We are the patriotic party. Our new network will give England a voice
Labour has to win England. Despite our strength in Wales, and welcome recovery in Scotland, Labour must aim…
