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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am absolutely delighted that Julia, Hannah, Tim, Dave and Mark will be joining our brilliant Liberal Democrat team in the House of Lords. Each of them has the right skills, experience and values to ...

Hannah Kitching is a former NHS physiotherapist who has been Mayor of Penistone and Leader of the Opposition on Barnsley Council. She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2026.

Dave McCobb was the Liberal Democrat Director of Campaigns for the party’s breakthrough 2024 general election campaign. He has also been a councillor in Hull and was appointed to the House of Lords in ...

The latest edition of the email newsletter for my podcast, Political Fictions, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as soon as ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...

The latest edition of my email newsletter about work in Parliament, A Lord’s Eye View, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as ...

Congratulations to new councillor Terry Weldon and the team in the first of a pair of by-elections int he same patch. Haslemere West (Waverley) Council By-Election Result:🔶 LDM: 58.6% (-5.6)🌍 GRN: ...