Forecasting is a tricky art but looking back at the relationship between local elections and subsequent general elections puts Labour on course for House of Commons majority.
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Not a knockout blow but important gains for the opposition.
The prime minister is popular, his party is not. Which is more important as we head towards the next election?
There’s a lot to play for in the final big electoral test before the next national vote, especially in northern regions where Labour hopes to make a comeback.
Voters now need to take ID to the ballot box in England, despite little evidence that fraud is a problem.
There is a distinction between deliberate use of a song to support a particular political campaign, and incidental music in the background at a social function hosted by a political party.
Can the prime minister unite his warring party around a new energy department? It feels unlikely.
The prime minister’s pledge to bring integrity to public office could become a stick to beat him with – just like ‘back to basics’ became for John Major.
The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
An expert in the circus in literature and culture explains the root of its resonance as a political metaphor – and why circus performers object to it.
An influential group of the UK prime minister’s own backbenchers want more wind farms.
When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Matt Hancock’s controversial appearance on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here raises important questions on the true purpose of MPs.
Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
The law says MPs have to vote in favour of holding an election – and with the Conservatives facing huge losses, there’s little chance of them wanting one.
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