The Tories are the largest party on the council with 26 seats to Reform's 23 - but remain nine short of an overall majority.

All 10 councils left with no party in overall control after ballots this month have confirmed their executive arrangements.

Senior Conservatives in the town are calling for recommendations for Warrington Borough Council in a damning report to be followed in full.

Sir Keir Starmer said the agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius secured the ‘vital’ Diego Garcia military base.

Long-term net migration to the UK was halved in 2024, official data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed, ...

No amount of pandering to rightwingers will make them go easy on the government, writes Simon Childs. So why bother?

P eople turn to animals when describing Boris Johnson. To his aides, the former prime minister was “Big Dog”. One commentator ...

Rochford District Council is now run as a joint administration by the Conservatives, Rochford District Residents (RDR) and ...

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is under pressure from a new poll showing her party’s popularity dropping to the lowest ...

Tories face wipeout as they drop to fourth place in major poll - A poll by YouGov has left Kemi Badenoch’s party on just 16 ...

Reform voters enjoy more success on dating apps than Conservative voters, according to new research from the University of ...

Questions remain about whether Reform has made the Tories redundant in the political sphere – but it’s a done deal in the ...