Here is a list of the councillors which Reform has shed from the May 2025 local elections and from those elections in by-elections since. The latest update is the departure of Nick Brown, yet another ...

Congratulations to Pat Hackett, a former Labour council leader who has just been elected unopposed in a by-election for Dawlish Town Council.

Read my posts about the 2026 Liberal Democrat Federal Party Spring Conference in York, at the Barbican Centre on 13-15 March.

The combined agenda and directory for the forthcoming Lib Dem Spring Conference 2026 in York are now out. Taking a look through, I was glad to see that a change I introduced as President has stuck. We ...

Welcome to Manu Singh, previously a Green councillor on Runnymede Council and now a Liberal Democrat councillor.

Three principal authority council by-elections this week, one a traditional non-party affair for the City of London ...

Read about the 2026 local elections, scheduled as usual for the first Thursday in May but with many cancelled due to local government reorganisation.

Councillor Howard Sykes, Oldham Borough’s longest serving councillor, is to retire from Oldham Council this May.

A Lib Dem press release brings the news: Local campaigner Jackie Pearcey has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Gorton and Denton in the upcoming by-election, pledging to champion ...

Liberal Democrats gain seat from the Conservatives in a council by-election for Bearsden South ward, East Dunbartonshire council.