Twelve principal authority council by-elections this week and, after last week's blip, a return to winning ways for the Liberal Democrats.

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

The latest edition of my email newsletter about work in Parliament, A Lord’s Eye View, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as ...

There are two ways for drivers to pay Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) each year: in one lump sum or in monthly instalments. But one is costlier.

Twenty-three (!) principal authority contests this week, for twenty-four seats, and although it has been a good start to... … ...

A press release from the Liberal Democrats brings the news: Richard Kilpatrick has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Greater Manchester in the upcoming mayoral election to replace ...

Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys. You can sign up for my weekly polling newsletter, ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...

A bumper fifteen principal authority council contests this week, including a clutch from Wales caused by councillors getting elected to the Senedd. Let’s start with a Lib Dem win in sad circumstances: ...

The latest edition of my email newsletter about work in Parliament, A Lord’s Eye View, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as ...

So far we’ve had polls giving Andy Burnham a three, ten and five point lead, all from established pollsters. We now also have a new poll from a newer polling firm, Convergent, who are a member of the ...