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The 2026 local elections are the biggest electoral test for Sir Keir Starmer since the entire country last went to the polls two years ago.

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted a night of major losses for Labour in yesterday’s elections has been ‘tough’ – but vowed to stay on as Prime Minister.

Labour is preparing for record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections in England, which could be decisive for Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister.

The former Labour MSP is facing allegations of narrowly avoiding hitting a pedestrian while driving under the influence in Edinburgh.

Zack Polanski’s popularity ratings have taken a major hit days before crucial local elections following a row with the chief of the Metropolitan Police over a post he shared about the Golders Green stabbings.

James Buchan, a former fisherman in the Scottish port of Peterhead, has swallowed his hostility towards Nigel Farage.

Keir Starmer will this week launch a last-minute effort to convince voters he is on their side as he persists in his campaign ahead of challenging local election results.

Nigel Farage has been accused of "dodging scrutiny days before crucial local elections" after dropping out of a planned TV interview on Sunday.

The former Labour spin doctor complained that the seven-figure sum given to him by Reform donor Christopher Harborne is "not even on the news".

A former mayor stalled police officers so her son could hide incriminating evidence on his phone after he raped an unconscious 15-year-old girl.

As Keir Starmer vows to crack down on ’disgraceful’ shoplifters, retail workers have painted a harrowing picture of life on the front line.

Wales was once the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. By the 1820s, it was responsible for 40 per cent of Britain’s iron exports.

Sir Sadiq Khan has said polls suggesting Labour is set to be decimated in London at the upcoming local elections “scare me” as he made a heartfelt plea to voters not to take their frustrations with central government out on councils.

The UK’s National Crime Agency reviewed new allegations about Lord Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein in spring 2024.

The Australian company that operated the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge has admitted overcharging by £118 million - £40 million more than originally estimated.

Keir Starmer is looking increasingly isolated over his handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal with divisions emerging in cabinet over his decision to sack the Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins.

Daniel Devaney, standing in the local elections for Nigel Farage’s party in Bradford, posted on Facebook about ‘blasting’ followers of Islam off the face of the Earth.

The Transport Secretary’s car had to be towed after she hit a "carter" pothole while driving through Oxfordshire in her Mini Cooper last month.

The heir to the multibillion-pound manufacturing empire, JCB, has threatened to leave Britain in response to Rachel Reeves’ raid on inheritance tax.

The nephew of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is standing for election as a London borough councillor in May.

Hundreds of Afghan women have been refused asylum in the UK in the past year amid plummeting grant rates, new analysis shows.