Election day in England, Scotland and Wales: What you need to know The final results are not likely to be declared until nearly 48 hours after polling stations close. Evening Standard · May 7
Romford Conservatives complain over Reform defector MP's posters outside HQ The local Conservatives have said they asked Reform defector Andrew Rosindell to take the adverts down, claiming they are ‘misleading election communications’ Evening Standard · May 5
Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK Exclusive: women ‘massively underrepresented’ in next week’s local and devolved elections, campaigners say The Guardian - UK · May 1
May 7 elections in England, Scotland and Wales: What you need to know Elections are being held for the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd in Wales and 136 councils in England. Evening Standard · Apr 30
Welsh countryside: what Greens and Reform are promising they would change after election In the last of our series on environmental issues and the Wales election campaign, we look particularly at countryside policies of two parties that are new contenders for seats in the Senedd. The Conversation · Apr 29
What the parties promise Welsh voters on the NHS, schools, childcare and tax Labour, Plaid Cymru, Reform, the Greens, the Tories and the Lib Dems set out competing plans but offer little detail on how they would pay for them The Guardian - UK · Apr 27
Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris Johnson The Guardian - UK · Apr 25
What each party is promising in the Westminster council election Labour, Conservatives, Reform and the Greens are all standing 54 candidates across the borough’s 18 wards Evening Standard · Apr 18
Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’? Some fear a fragmented field of hopefuls from Labour, the Conservatives, Greens, Reform and independents could leave city ungovernable The Guardian - UK · Apr 17
Voices: ‘Kemi is on the way up’: Readers react as Conservatives close gap on Reform in latest poll YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over signs of Reform UK’s decline, with some seeing a meaningful Conservative recovery under Kemi Badenoch while others view the shift as tentative, fragmented and far from decisive The Independent UK · Apr 16
Patients have run out of patience with striking doctors – as have their colleagues THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As the medical profession is divided over yet more strikes by resident doctors, the NHS cannot afford to keep hurting itself and those who depend on it The Independent UK · Apr 6
Trussonomics still haunts parties’ economic promises in run-up to UK local elections Greens, Reform UK, Your Party, Conservatives and even Lib Dems are making extravagant spending pledges The Guardian - UK · Apr 4
Badenoch says Reform pact ‘a non-starter’ after call to ‘get together with Nige’ The Tory leader said the Conservatives are the only party on the centre-right. Evening Standard · Mar 31
Tuesday briefing: How to make sense of England’s local elections campaigns In today’s newsletter: From breakthroughs to breakdowns, what we can expect to see – and what the consequences of the vote could be The Guardian - UK · Mar 31
Evening Standard · Mar 28 Kemi Badenoch to launch ‘Get Britain Drilling’ campaign amid living cost hikes The Conservatives will put the campaign at the heart of their proposals for bringing down the spike in energy prices.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 23 ‘Unprecedented territory’: are UK polls as volatile as they seem? – in charts In what is beginning to look like a fragmented five-party system, small swings carry outsized political consequences
The Conversation · Mar 12 Why the rise of multi-party politics is good for democracy If a general election were held today, many British voters would notice something that has been quietly changing for years. They have more choice on the ballot than they used to. The dominance of Labour and the Conservatives is being eroded by multi-party politics. The recent Gorton and Denton byelection…
The Guardian - UK · Mar 6 Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne no longer interested in Reform-Tory pact Donor who has given £12m to Reform UK had previously wanted Nigel Farage to keep open mind about deal with Conservatives
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5 Defence secretary accuses Tory and Reform MPs of ‘unpatriotic’ behaviour John Healey lambasts opposition politicians for seeking to turn Donald Trump and the US against Keir Starmer
Evening Standard · Mar 4 Labour 'risks losing 600 seats' in London local elections in worse nightmare than Gorton disaster Sir Keir Starmer’s party is facing tough battles against the Greens, Reform UK, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems
The Conversation · Feb 27 Why isn’t the Greens’ growing success reflected in media coverage? The victory of the Greens in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection is a landmark for the party. But our new research reveals the Greens have received limited airtime over the last year despite almost doubling their support in the polls and in party membership.
The Times of India · Feb 27 Labour Pain: Why Green win in bypolls is a major red flag for Keir Starmer The numbers alone capture the scale of Labour’s collapse. The Greens secured 14,980 votes, representing 40.7 percent of the electorate. Reform UK came second with 10,578 votes, or 28.7 percent. Labour was pushed into third place with just 9,364 votes, amounting to 25.4 percent. The Conservatives, once Labour’s primary rival,…
The Independent UK · Feb 27 Takeaways from a UK special election won by the Green Party over Starmer's Labour Britain’s Green Party has scored a surprise victory in a special election for a seat in Parliament in a blow for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party
Evening Standard · Feb 23 Martin Lewis apologises to Kemi Badenoch for ‘gate crashing’ ITV interview Ms Badenoch said she loves a ‘feisty debate’ and is looking forward to seeing Mr Lewis again soon.
The Independent UK · Feb 18 Child abusers should be made to join a register just like sex offenders, Conservatives say Conservative frontbenchers in the Lords have tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, designed to set up a similar child cruelty register