British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to resign in the face of local election losses for his Labour Party in what is being seen as a ‘midterm’ litmus test for his government. With the Reform Party gaining in English council election results and Labour losing several seats as trends trickled in on Friday (May…
Every seat on Sefton Council will be up for grabs on May 7, with the five major parties all vying for people’s votes Bootle residents will go to the polls on Thursday(Image: Emma Morgan) After a long build-up, this year’s council elections in England are now less than a week away. Sefton Council has an…
On Thursday, May 7 Londoners will head to the ballot box to vote on who will run their borough. Labour, which controls 21 out of the city’s 32 borough councils, is bracing for potential historic losses across the capital, particularly inner London. With 44 out of 51 council seats, Labour’s majority in the North London…
A former director of Hong Kong’s Economic and Trade Offices (ETO) in Jakarta and Bangkok is standing in the United Kingdom local elections for the right-wing Reform UK party. Lee Sheung-yuen, who left government in 2023 after serving as the first director of the Bangkok ETO and concurrently served as director general of its Jakarta…
Voters will go to polling stations on May 7 in the biggest test at the ballot box for political parties since Labour won the general election in July 2024. Almost 25,000 candidates are fighting to be elected to more than 5,000 seats on 136 councils across England, with Reform UK fielding around 4,800, less than…
It was a close race between Reform, the Tories and the Greens Reform UK celebrates with winning candidate Dee North (second right)(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Reform UK has narrowly retained a Leicestershire County Council seat, with the winner claiming there was “dirty fighting” from opponents in the by-election campaign. Dr Dee North took the…
Sir Ed Davey claimed Luke Campbell has been ‘consistently missing in action’ after Nigel Farage suggested ‘all the local councils’ had been against the Mayor A political row between Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats has heated up ahead of Hull’s local elections(Image: Donna Clifford/Hull Live) The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey,…
The race for control at Gateshead Council is heating up ahead of polling day, May 7 Gateshead Civc Centre(Image: Gateshead Civc Centre) Liberal Democrats in Gateshead say that control of the town is now a straight fight between themselves and Reform UK. At the opposition party’s local election manifesto launch on Tuesday evening, Lib Dem…
A lower turn-out was seen just seven months after the May local elections Owen Ferron (centre, blue jacket) is the new Reform UK councillor for the Long Eaton North division(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Reform UK have narrowly retained a seat on Derbyshire County Council following a snap by-election caused by the sudden resignation of…
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets surged Monday after Wall Street finished a winning week, overcoming worries over bank lending and the trade war with China. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices fell. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 2.9%, to 48,970.40, setting a new record, after its governing Liberal Democrats found a new coalition partner,…