Cllr Christina Coleman has announced that she is leaving the Green Party and will join the Liberal Democrats. Cllr Coleman, a ...

Ian Conlan, a former Mayor of Malton, has switched from the Greens to the Liberal Democrats and is intendeding to stand for ...

Are you going to call an early election?’ is perhaps the most useless question that Prime Ministers get asked.

It is time for a classic - perhaps the classic - of political paranoia this time: the original 1962 film version of The ...

There were five principal authority council by-elections this week, and it was a good set for the Conservatives this time.

HM Treasury have been costing us money by moving slowly to agree a simple increase in fees for vehicle manufacturers.

West Berkshire local councillor Paul Dick, elected in 2023, has switched from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats.

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 on principal authorities elected ...

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 ...

The latest quarterly donations figures from the Electoral Commission show that the Liberal Democrats raised more than Labour in declarable donations and public funding in the last quarter of 2024.

Verification of ballot papers at an election count. Photograph from Coventry City Council, used under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Each May* sees a big round of local elections on the first Thursday ...