Two principal authority council by-elections this week to kick off the year and get us started with the January contests.

Lib Dems unveil a new policy to protect children online, through film-style age ratings of up to 18 for harmful social media ...

Podcast with Paul Webb about the report "Britain's Party Members" which has new data on who joins political parties and what ...

No principal authority council by-elections this week, but there are ten coming up over the rest of this month.

Lib Dems call on National Crime Agency to launch an urgent investigation into X in response to the proliferation of sexual ...

Professor Paul Webb has done extensive research into representative democracy, particularly party and electoral politics.

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Here is a list of the councillors which Reform has shed from the May 2025 local elections. The latest update is the departure of Paul Cutts in Doncaster. Richard Everett was elected as a Conservative ...

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