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Concerns attempts to block local deals with Lib Dems or Greens risk allowing Tories to regain control of councilsLabour faces accusations of overcentralised meddling after the party’s national executive vetoed planned coalitions with the Liberal Democr…
Prime minister says he is ‘very comfortable’ with controversial rules despite former business secretary’s admission of gerrymanderingRishi Sunak has defended new laws requiring voters to bring ID as “entirely reasonable” after Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested…
Nationalist party made sweeping gains including unprecedented breakthroughs in Down and AntrimNorthern Ireland council elections: all the latest resultsSinn Féin has become the biggest party in Northern Ireland local government after stunning gains in …
Find out which parties have won seats to Northern Ireland’s 11 local council areas after Thursday’s electionsOn Thursday 18 May people across Northern Ireland voted to elect new local councils, two weeks after many voters in England did the same. There…
Defections in the once solidly Conservative southern “blue wall” drove large losses in recent municipal elections.
South Cambridgeshire council will test 32-hour week on principle that staff will work ‘more intensely and productively’Bin crews could soon be putting their feet up on a Monday as the wave of four-day-week trials spreading across the UK finally reaches…
Asabu Laher, 95, is receiving end-of-life care at her council-run house in Clapham, south LondonA 95-year-old woman receiving palliative care has been left unable to use her breathing equipment due to power cuts caused by persistent flooding at her cou…
Number of families stuck in temporary rooms for more than six weeks is highest since 2003The number of homeless families being housed by English councils in hotels and B&Bs for longer than the legal limit is at its highest in 20 years.The latest go…
Fiona Fey, of popular choir Mediaeval Baebes, says her livelihood was threatened by noise abatement orderMusicians are facing a postcode lottery of noise complaints, industry leaders have warned, after a member of the classical chart-topping choir Medi…
Focus group of blue wall residents believes Sunak is ‘out of his depth’ and that Britain needs change nowBlue wall Conservative voters in Surrey are far from impressed with the government’s obsession with culture wars, and remain unrepentant for tactic…