Hard-right party wins byelection with 17-point swing from Labour and adds more than 500 council seats Local elections: full mayoral and council results Nigel Farage claimed he had broken the grip of Britain’s two main political parties as Reform UK gained an MP and swept to a string of victories […]
State department certifies licence for ‘$50m or more’ in defence hardware and services after minerals deal signed The Trump administration will approve its first sale of military equipment to Ukraine since Donald Trump took office, in an indication that the minerals deal signed by the two countries this week may […]
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County councils across England are being elected on 1 May, along with four regional mayors. Find out which areas are voting and search for your own Live results In many other years, the first set of local elections with a new government and prime minister in place would be scrutinised […]
Reports that just a handful of votes separate Labour and Reform in Labour-held Runcorn and Helsby seat; with results also due in mayoral and council races Local elections 2025: full mayoral and council results for England Reform UK has won three of the first five wards declared at Northumberland County […]
Move comes after Waltz lost officials’ confidence, sources say, with Marco Rubio to take on national security job US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts after they lost the confidence of other administration officials […]
Firefighters have rushed to control wildfires that have injured several people and prompted the military to deploy troops to help The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned that rapidly spreading wildfires near Jerusalem could reach the city, as he declared the situation a “national emergency”. Thick smoke billowed above […]
Chelsea clinched a sixth consecutive Women’s Super League title with two games to spare and continued their relentless dominance of the major silverware in English women’s football as they dug deep to win away at Manchester United, whose own hopes of securing European qualifying suffered a dent as a result. […]
Labour politicians warn former PM had boosted Tory and Reform climate sceptics on the eve of local elections Tony Blair has been forced by Downing Street to row back from his criticism of the government’s net zero strategy after furious Labour politicians warned he had given a boost to Tory […]
Exclusive: Rival political parties use suggestion of a Reform-Conservative alliance to target votes from centrist Tories A new wave of tactical voting could hamper progress for Reform UK in Thursday’s local elections, campaigners believe, with even some Conservative voters now saying they will vote Labour or Liberal Democrat. This could […]