Councillors Marcus Vickers and David Reynard said residents of the town felt they were 'always back of the queue'| Teesside Live
Her party faces oblivion| UnHerd
Bristolians will find out today who will run Bristol City Council for the next four years after casting their votes in yesterday's local elections| Bristol Live
Reform UK has been challenged to rule out recruiting Liz Truss to its ranks, after her one-time party chairman, Sir Jake Berry, became the latest former Conservative MP to defect from the Tories. The Liberal Democrats described Berry, who like Truss lost his seat at the 2024 general election, as an “architect of economic disaster”... Read more » The post Farage urged to rule out Liz Truss joining Reform UK after ally’s defection appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
The Conservatives stand accused of being “completely deluded” after the party’s strategy chief claimed they have “done the apologies”. Baroness Maclean, one of Kemi Badenoch’s closest political allies, told supporters that the Conservatives had “done the mea culpas” in a leaked speech. According to a report in the Telegraph, Baroness Maclean said the previous government... Read more » The post ‘Deluded’: Conservatives condemned after strategist says party has ‘done the ...| Politics.co.uk
'Unfair' rules leaving more pensioners facing income tax bill| Birmingham Live
Self-delusion can drive success| UnHerd
Birmingham Council was told by the GMB union this month that progress on equal pay "is too slow"| Birmingham Live
Half of Canadians say they would be ‘ashamed to call him PM’, a 10-point increase from 2023 August 21, 2025 – Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has easily slain the 200-headed hydra he faced in his Battle River-Crowfoot byelection, securing his return to parliament, but it remains to be seen what awaits him in the arena of January’s national convention in… The post Poilievre’s Prospects: CPC voters back him; those who could’ve put him over the top are far less supportive appe...| Angus Reid Institute
In our special live event this afternoon, all six candidates faced posed by YOU, our readers| Birmingham Live
The council needs to find £23 million of savings this year| Leicestershire Live
Labour have cloaked their suffrage expansion in democratic virtue – they're not fooling us| CapX
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie| Clothes In Books
The changes will hit some of the poorest city families| Leicestershire Live
Some believe it is 'nothing more than a temporary band-aid' that 'kicks the issue down the road'| Leicestershire Live
The party ended with 34 councillors, two shy of the magic figure of 36 required to be bigger than all the other groups combined.| Bristol Live
Drawing on her first biography for the House of Commons, 1832-1868 project, our new research fellow Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones looks at the behind the scenes involvement of the long-serving Conservative …| The Victorian Commons
In the mid-June of 1997, I was in an English Literature class. Our regular teacher was away, and she was being covered for by our Art teacher, whose principal characteristic was his physical resemblance to Gianluca Vialli. He was not an expert on the plays of Arthur Miller. In lieu of critical insight, the class […]| @Number 71
In my previous post, I mentioned that in the wake of the general election, which saw the Conservative Party suffer its worst result in history, the chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers (ACP), Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, decided to … Continue reading →| The Norton View
The Tory leadership candidates are out to prove how 'anti-woke' they are. It shows they're still in denial about losing the election.| Big Issue
There's been an increase in people blaming immigration for NHS problems - but the data simply doesn't back this up| Canary
Peter Stefanovic has exposed the new Labour government's hypocrisy in pursuing the Tory's appeal against its unlawful anti-protest laws| Canary
One of the small pleasures in life is post-election laughing at desperate Tories - and Thérèse Coffey and Mel Stride have given us that| Canary
New figures show how companies are profiteering through more creeping NHS privatisation - this time over mental health bed provision.| Canary
The general election has raised many questions about the functioning of the UK’s electoral system. In this post, Alan Renwick focuses on two main areas: the First Past the Post rules that form the …| The Constitution Unit Blog
There were "serious errors" on the part of the state in the run-up to Covid-19 - including failing to take inequality into account.| Chronicle Live
This election feels like a turning point. It's not just about a change in government led by Keir Starmer, but potentially a fundamental shift in how our democracy functions. As smaller parties gain ground and the political landscape becomes more diverse, we may be entering a new era of British politics| NevilleHobson .com
Sir Alan Duncan has been formally exonerated by the party following claims that his criticism of two directors of the Conservative Friends of Israel - only one of whom is Jewish - constituted antisemitism. Simon Childs reports.| Novara Media
The UK is set for a general election on 4 July. Global Government Forum experts discuss the key issues in the election.| www.globalgovernmentforum.com
In January, I noted on this blog that – just like one of the RAF’s bombers in 1942 and one of the Natural History Museum’s dinosaur skeletons in 1975 – one of the (Not Very)…| Labour Pains
