Five principal authority council by-elections this week plus the one for the Mayor of Greater Manchester to replace Andy Burnham.

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

Welcome to Lib Dem Newswire #212, which expands on why the Liberal Democrats should aim to be the largest party in local ...

After messing around with football / broadening our cultural frames of reference (delete according to which one of us you agree with), it’s back to hard core politics this time around with a classic ...

Five principal authority council by-elections this week, including Labour's first gains of the Andy Burnham era.

Plans to merge Portsmouth with Fareham, Gosport and Havant councils have prompted a Labour councillor to defect to the Liberal Democrats … Cllr Rajah Ghosh, who represents Charles Dickens ward on ...

Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors elected under the Reform banner on ...

* indicates a figure with slightly different fieldwork dates from the rest of the row. Wording used – BMG: satisfied/dissatisfied, Deltapoll: well/badly, Find Out Now: well/badly, Freshwater: ...

Earlier in the week I appeared on The Spectator ‘s podcast, Coffee House Shots, alongside Lib Dem MP Al Pinkerton and discussing the party’s prospects and ambitions in the local elections. Somehow we ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features the authors of a great new book, Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain. Sara Hobolt and James Tilley discuss how the Brexit referendum ...

Survation has given us the first constituency opinion poll for the Makerfield Parliamentary by-election, published in The Sunday Times: The Green candidate, Chris Kennedy, has since pulled out ...