North Tyneside will see two new councillors take their seats next month but oddly, in terms of electoral convention, on a ...

Britain’s Labour government will hope to regain the political initiative when Treasury chief Rachel Reeves sets out her spending plans for the coming years. She is set to outline the ...

The Bonneville County Elections Office has announced there are three local elections coming up on Tuesday, including a trustee for the Bonneville County Library District, a bond for Shelley Joint ...

Labour MPs press Keir Starmer to rethink benefits cuts after local elections on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Jim Pickard, Deputy Political Editor. Published May 4 2025.

Runcorn (United Kingdom) (AFP) – With a thumping success in local elections this week, the hard-right Reform UK party has loosened Britain's two-party stranglehold and is already eyeing Downing ...

When elections arrive, these operatives (some of them may be local officials themselves) must deliver results by whatever means necessary. Clearly, meaningful governance reform must start locally. Yet ...

Reform UK has emerged as an electoral force. Nigel Farage's right-wing party won 10 councils, two mayoralties and a parliamentary by-election during Thursday's polls.. Wes Streeting, speaking for the ...

These elections are crucial for “getting that sort of information and data locally on the ground that will then feed into targeting for future campaigns,” Wilson said. “Having a base of people elected ...

Local elections 2025: Ask chief political commentator John Rentoul anything in exclusive Q&A. The Independent’s chief political commentator, John Rentoul, is here to answer your local elections ...

But I think if at the general election there is any whisper that to vote Conservative, you unleash a kind of period of chaos like we had from ’17 to ’19, a period of unhappiness, which is now ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right Reform UK party who was one of the biggest proponents of Brexit and the UK's departure from the European Union, will be put to the test in the country's ...

The report cites Heather Lardy who supports the right of people in Commonwealth countries to vote in British elections as “intimately connected with the colonial history of the United Kingdom.” ...