Voters go the the polls in England on Thursday in the first big test at the ballot box for political parties since Labour won the general election. A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities, while four regional mayors and two local mayors will be elected. A parliamentary by-election…
Some 1,641 council seats are up for grabs this week as local elections are held across 23 local authorities on Thursday. It will be the first major electoral test for the UK’s political parties since last July’s general election, with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour struggling to stay ahead of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, according to…
The Mirror looks at the key battlegrounds with over 1,000 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities in the first major electoral test since the General Election A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities while four regional mayors and two local mayors will also be…
An MP has been barred from entering Hong Kong to visit her own newborn grandson in a “heartless and totally unacceptable” crackdown by Chinese authorities. Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse had flown to the former British Crown Colony on Thursday – but was held up and interrogated at airport security by immigration officers for five…
Conservative councillors could be free to go into coalition with Reform UK after next month’s local elections, Kemi Badenoch has said. The Tory leader has consistently ruled out any national deal with Reform, whose leader Nigel Farage has vowed to “destroy” the Conservative Party. But speaking to BBC Breakfast on Thursday, Mrs Badenoch suggested the…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has vowed to replace the Conservatives as the “party of Middle England”, as he launches his local election campaign. The Lib Dems are hoping to erode the Conservative vote in the 20 Tory-run councils that are up for election on May 1. The party believes it can become the…
Efforts to reverse the suspension of local elections in England have been defeated in the House of Lords. Nine councils have had their elections delayed by one year while the Government reorganises local government. In a rare move, two so-called fatal motions were proposed by the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party in the upper…
Donald Trump said Sunday he’s tired of flipping on Fox News to find Democrats like Pete Buttigieg on the air. In what was part of a volley of rage posts he shared on Truth Social, the former president called on Fox to stop inviting liberals onto its shows to argue against what Republican guests—and the…