#LocalElectionS

Standing on the steps of Hackney Town Hall earlier today (8 May), Zack Polanski declared the era of two-party politics “dead and buried”. The Green Party leader was speaking shortly after Zoe Garbett

With the lack of overnight counts, particularly in Scotland and Wales, I will be getting a good sleep tonight before waking up to the first results of the local elections early tomorrow. The NS politi

The scene begins: an average house in the county of Normalshire, Middle England. A letter lands on a doormat. The camera leans forward to read the front. It looks like a polling card… Then – argh! – i

At the entrance to Clacton Pier, beneath the slowly spinning big wheel, is the Tubby Isaacs seafood stand. Beneath its scarlet awning lie cockles, whelks and jellied eels: a portal to an old East End

In the event of an electoral bloodbath, we got a taste of what the post-election Labour Party might look like this morning with the Daily Telegraph’s splash in which Eluned Morgan, leader of Welsh Lab

On July 29 2024, Labour councillors Dave Neary and Greg Myers were on their way home from a council meeting in Southport when they saw one of the roads had been blocked. They stopped and asked a polic

It was the most high-profile Labour-Green switch yet. In December 2025, Jamie Driscoll, the former mayor of North of Tyne went Green. Driscoll, 55, had been a Labour member since the early 1980s, join

If nothing is happening, why keep electing the same old faces? Why not try someone new? This is the mood music against which millions will cast their vote on Thursday 7 May 2026. After all, more than

To understand the scale of Labour’s problem in 2026, you only need to look at 2025. Polling in the mid-20s, the party went on to lose two-thirds of its seats in the English local elections – the worst

If it really does come to pass this May and afterwards that the Green Party breaks Labour’s century-long hold on the British left, then 26 February 2026, when the Greens won their first parliamentary

It was a wet, blustery day in Birmingham and Shahid Butt was on the street broadcasting to TikTok. “‘So many hate comments, brave keyboard warriors’,” he said, looking at his phone, which was standing