Scale of Tory backlash tempered by mixed picture for Labour, while Lib Dems and Greens perform well Local elections: live coverage Full election results as they come in Boris Johnson’s leadership is facing fresh peril after senior Conservatives blamed him for losing swaths of the party’s southern heartlands to the […]
Month: May 2022
Michelle O’Neill likely to be first minister after party tops first-preference votes with 29% Northern Ireland election 2022: live results Sinn Féin is on course to be the biggest party at Stormont after a symbolic breakthrough for Irish nationalism in Northern Ireland’s assembly election. The party topped the first-preference vote […]
Party wins control of Cumberland and Rossendale councils but fails to make breakthrough on scale it hoped for Local elections: live coverage Full election results as they come in Labour activists still shudder at the thought of recent campaigns in many “red wall” areas. In Hartlepool, one recalled seeing canvassers […]
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives may face electoral drubbing amid Partygate and cost of living crisis. Follow latest news and reaction as counting begins Conservatives brace for losses as votes counted in local elections One of the trickiest contests for Labour is in Sunderland, where it risks losing control of the council […]
An estimated timetable for Thursday night and Friday, and how the numbers stack up in close races Polls will close at 10pm in Thursday’s local elections, in which the Conservatives expect to face a drubbing from voters over the rising cost of living and Partygate. Here are some of the […]
Polls have closed in the local elections. All councils in Scotland, Wales and London, and many in the rest of England were up for election. First results are expected soon after midnight On 5 May all councils in Scotland and Wales are holding elections for all of their councillors. In […]
Labour and Lib Dem sources say turnout appears to be low in possible sign of Tory voters staying away Follow the results live The Conservatives are braced for a nerve-shredding 24 hours after voting closed in local elections across the UK, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats expecting to make […]
A third attempt to evacuate civilians trapped in Mariupol is underway, UN confirms; Russian shelling and assault of Azovstal ‘do not stop’, Zelenskiy says EU plans to put Putin’s rumoured girlfriend on sanctions list Putin hopes to claim Mariupol as key prop in Victory Day celebrations Russia opens artillery barrages […]
Ukraine MP says Russian troops are ‘already on the territory of Azovstal’; Russia announces daytime ceasefires on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Fighting under way in Mariupol’s Azovstal plant, says Azov commander Russian airstrikes target western arms arriving in Ukraine EU says Putin must pay ‘high price’ as it proposes oil […]
Leader of Ukrainian forces in steelworks says they are engaged in ‘difficult bloody battles’ against Russian troops Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Fierce fighting continued inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks, the commander of Ukrainian forces in the plant said, as more civilians fled the city on evacuation buses following weeks of brutal […]