Local and mayoral elections will take place across England on May 1 A polling station in a church in Kingswood. (Image: Ben Birchall/PA Wire) With the local elections just over two weeks away, it’s important that anyone living in an area where something is at stake takes advantage of their right to vote. The polling…
“We’re here, and we’re here to stay,” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told a crowd in County Durham during a campaign speech on Tuesday. With his party standing more candidates in the upcoming local elections on 1 May than either Labour or the Conservative Party, Farage lauded recent polling for Reform as “astonishing progress”. “Our…
The next local elections are taking place in May 2025 Local elections take place every year(Image: inyourArea) The next local election is taking place on Thursday, May 1, as millions of people across the UK set out to vote for 1,631 council seats, 23 county, unitary and metropolitan councils, and six directly elected mayors. Heading…
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…
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has admitted he is “disappointed” Donald Trump has slapped tariffs on the UK. He told LBC: “No country in the world has been exempted from the initial decisions, and that’s a decision that the President clearly wanted to take. “We have, I believe, the prospect of a really significant and interesting…
All eyes will be on Reform UK in May’s local elections according to experts, who predicted the insurgent party could score dramatic upset victories. Think tank the Local Government Information Unit said Nigel Farage’s party “has a lot to gain” as it named five key contests to watch, with Reform the challengers in four of…
Nigel Farage blasted Labour for “panic lies” over Reform UK in a speech at a rally tonight. The Reform UK leader warned that the establishment is “getting very scared” of his insurgent party ahead of the local elections on May 1. He told the audience at the Kent event: “I can tell that the establishment…
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…
Nigel Farage calls Reform UK’s party growth ‘truly extraordinary’ Nigel Farage will launch Reform UK’s local election campaign at the biggest political rally in modern history with 10,000 supporters expected to turn up. The leader predicted the insurgent party will win 200 council seats in the local elections from a standing start after a massive…
This fact check has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. In recent weeks we’ve seen various different claims about local elections in May being “cancelled” or postponed — from politicians, in the media and on social media, where some…