Conservatives on track for the worst local elections since the 1990s
The Tories are expected to retain just under 980 council seats, a fall of 548, with Labour gaining more than 800.
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Local elections 2022: The London councils to watch
Some of the key results to look for once the polls close.
Sending Tories a message? Voter registrations jump ahead of May elections
Applications jumped on Tuesday to double the daily average for the year after Partygate fines were handed out to the PM and chancellor.
Ring doorbell catches Tory’s councillor’s canvassing howler
"Mum and dad in?"
Windfall tax on megacorps like Amazon ‘most popular way to cover the £2.8bn cost of lockdown’
Ahead of local elections, voters want Covid profiteers to fund frontline workers and public services.
Council elections: ’80 per cent of everything you see and touch is affected by local government’
“It’s the town council doing the bins, providing the local parks and playgrounds, it’s all of those things but no one pays attention to it.”
What is a residents party?
We spoke to the party of residents which managed to cause the Tories an 80 per cent loss of seats in their own stronghold in the 2019 district council elections – and is now vying for county council votes.