A party crackdown on local party cooperation is preventing Labour councillors from leveraging their election victories to unseat the Tories in some towns, Josiah Mortimer reports
Local Government
Reform Political Advertising campaign report reveals scale of deceptive literature in the runup to the May local elections, as Green Party calls for greater regulation
Andrew Kersley speaks to a man awaiting the bailiffs as campaigners warn that cuts to housing services are leaving vulnerable people desperately unsupported
Just a fraction of the two million people who lack photo ID have applied for the government's free scheme. How many will be denied a vote - or simply not bother - on Thursday? Josiah Mortimer reports
A last-minute rush is unlikely to be enough to prevent large numbers of people being effectively disenfranchised on 4 May, Josiah Mortimer reports
And election experts have warned of battles at the ballot box if people are denied a vote, Josiah Mortimer reports
Not for the first time, Starmer and Labour claim local elections will affect national policies Keir Starmer has suffered the indignity of corrective action by Twitter after he posted a claim that votes in the local elections next month will affect the NHS. Starmer claimed that voting for Labour would lead to ‘an NHS that […]
Just 50,000 out of an estimated two million voters without ID have applied for the new 'free' voter identification certificate ahead of England's local elections
Lib Dems are trying to reverse the legislation they fear will cause chaos at the ballot box, while activists warn that trans people may be excluded by photo ID
State submits no evidence in persecution of workers as trial collapses in farce The prosecution of the so-called ‘GMB three’ has collapsed in farce. The three had been arrested last May charged with wilful obstruction of the highway under the Thatcherite 1980 Highways Act anti-strike law after attempting to ask drivers not to cross their […]