UK Politics

this is incredibly sad tbh.

Oh look. The Green Party in Enfield Council agree to support a minority Tory administration after Labour loses majority. Central objective: to block the development of the New Town in Crews Hill. The Greens, working with the Tories: opposing new homes in London. Marvellous.

PLYMOUTH SUTTON AND DEVONPORT REFORM: 9589 (31.1%) +13.4% LABOUR: 9215 (29.8%) -19.6% GREEN: 7212 (23.4%) +15.8% CONSERVATIVE: 2804 (9.1%) -7.2% LIB DEM: 1484 (4.8%) -1.0% INDEPENDENT: 397 (1.3%) TUSC: 176 (0.6%) +0.1% TURNOUT 30,877 ELECTORATE 78,167 %TURNOUT 39.5% #plymouth

PLYMOUTH MOOR VIEW REFORM: 12,782 (45.1%) +22.5 LABOUR: 5,399 (19.1%) -22.1 CONSERVATIVE: 4,340 (15.3%) -12.8 GREEN: 3,268 (11.5%) +7.5 LIB DEMS: 1,166 (4.1%) 0.0 INDEPENDENTS: 1,166 (4.1%) TUSC: 53 (0.2%) TURNOUT 28,323 ELECTORATE 76,334 %TURNOUT 37.1% #plymouth

Constituency level aggregates from the 2026 Local Elections. (Compared to GE2024) 🧵 #2026localelections #uk #localelections #reformuk #LabourUK #conservatives #libdems #greens

@ChackBO Up 3% from the 2024 Borough Council Elections.

@ukelections121 31% how does this compare to previous turnout % in Hartlepool?

@CertifiedOmlet @JoshHousden I’m going to be posting more on my account if your interested.

@ukelections121 @JoshHousden Thanks, bodes well for the constituencies when they come up.

Think I might start posting some constituency-level aggregates

@CertifiedOmlet @JoshHousden Exeter Green : 11,172 (37.0%) Labour: 6,727 (22.3%) Reform: 6,719 (22.3%) Lib Dems: 3,735 (12.4%) Conservative: 2,435 (8.1%) Independent: 94 (0.3%) TUSC: 10 (0.0%) 30,193 votes with an electorate of 67,891 giving a turnout if 44.5%, which I think is quite high for an LE

@JoshHousden Exeter and Oxford please if you're taking requests

@JoshHousden I’ve been doing some already for Hartlepool and the 2 Plymouth seats

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party. Tice said: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less." It's another big story from @Gabriel_Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.

I am proposing this for the land around Theydon Bois Central Line Station. The local homeowners shall be compensated £20 for their troubles.

The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?

Children in temporary accommodation often travel many miles to school. We were pressed by @MENnewsdesk - rightly - to do more to help them. So today we’re confirming that we will bring forward free bus travel for them starting later this year. 🐝 1/2

Taking on Liverpool, again. This time in the @Carabao_Cup.

BREAKING: Retail sales the highest in three years in a surprise to economists. Sky's @taaffems reports. Read more 🔗 news.sky.com/story/retail-s…

This is an extraordinarily strong reason to not vote for a political party.

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen shared his economic wisdom at the Tory conference. The Conservative party, he said, must be the party of “sound money”. Could this be the same regional mayor who has presided over the vast transfer of levelling up funds into the pockets of local businessmen, delivering more hot air than investment and, in the process, leaving the regional bodies he has chaired in a parlous financial state? It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.

in case you missed it.

The Government has announced where it wants to build its twelve new towns. Here is my review. Short version: they've done quite a good job.