2024 local election results: Live updates on key races for Labour as counts begin Polls have closed and counting is now underway in the 2024 local elections, with results coming in throughout… Katie Neame & Tom Belger 2nd May, 2024, 10:05 pm
Comment Ian Murray: ‘John Swinney offers nothing new – Scotland can send a government to Westminster, not just a message’ There have been a lot of remarkable moments in Scottish politics recently. For the Scottish Labour Party many… Ian Murray 2nd May, 2024, 3:57 pm
Live blog Local elections 2024: Live polling day updates as activists urged to give mayor candidates final push Voters up and down the country are heading to the polls today in the last set of local… Tom Belger, Daniel Green & Katie Neame 2nd May, 2024, 10:16 am
Comment Tom Baldwin: ‘What Blackpool’s deckchairs can tell us about its by-election’ Ten years ago, Blackpool council sold off its entire stock of 6,000 municipal deckchairs, claiming the holidaymakers who… Tom Baldwin 2nd May, 2024, 9:30 am
Analysis North Herts local elections: ‘We want to show Labour can demolish the blue wall’ Over the last few years, Labour has won a string of by-elections in both places it broadly expected… Morgan Jones 2nd May, 2024, 9:09 am
Analysis Dudley: Where Labour’s local campaign began, and it cannot afford to lose Labour notched up 22 more councils overall at last year’s English local elections, while the Conservatives lost control… Tom Belger 1st May, 2024, 11:03 pm
News Unite chief says row over New Deal rowback on May Day ‘beyond irony’ – but has Labour watered down its pledges? The general secretary of Unite Sharon Graham has warned a row on May Day over Labour watering down… Tom Belger 1st May, 2024, 8:21 pm
News Battleground candidates ‘optimistic’ on their local and general election chances Activists, candidates and councillors are in their final push for votes as the local and mayoral elections draw… Daniel Green 1st May, 2024, 2:43 pm
News Live: Scottish Parliament reject no confidence vote in SNP government Members of the Scottish Parliament have rejected Scottish Labour’s motion of no confidence in the SNP minority government.… Daniel Green 1st May, 2024, 2:30 pm
Comment ‘Why Jamie Driscoll’s campaign should give Labour pause for thought’ With just a few days to go, the race to elect a new mayor of the North East… Jim Blagden 1st May, 2024, 7:00 am