county elections Articles

Thursday’s council elections are the most difficult in the cycle for Labour. There are no elections in most of the biggest urban areas, including London and the six former metropolitan counties, nor in Scotland, nor in Wales except for Anglesey. Instead, the main...

Despite the significant public debate around the Health and Social Care Act, the government’s radical reforms to the NHS are continuing apace. Labour’s current position is to reverse the main thrust of the reforms, which is to introduce greater competition in the NHS....

In the 2009 county elections Labour was wiped from the electoral map in Hampshire in all but one of the 75 divisions. Since then the people of Andover in Hampshire have been left with a county council which is hell bent on rampant privatisation of education, the...