Conservatives, Labour, Holyrood and the Senedd - don't worry, we know the UK's local politics can be confusing. But as results trickle in from one of the most important elections in recent times, CGTN Europe breaks down the main races for you and sheds some light on what...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station after forgetting to bring ID to vote in the UK's local elections.
The leader of Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist party, said in April that if the party won a majority in the parliamentary (or Senedd) elections on Thursday, it would commit to holding a referendum on Welsh independence during the next five years. Although opinion polls have typically showed t...
LONDON, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Kingdom's (UK) ruling Conservative Party lost some of its traditional strongholds in Thursday's local elections. The vote has been considered to be a litmus test for the mid-term popularity of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, caught between the partygate ...
What role does the local media, particularly the local press play, in the local constituency campaign during UK general elections? Drawing on interviews with MPs and candidates and evidence from a series of content analysis studies of local newspapers, this article reviews the extent to which the...
By Friday evening, results had been declared in 100 of the 107 councils in England that held elections on Thursday, and the Conservatives have so far lost 433 seats in council chambers, while the main opposition Labour Party have gained 169 seats. ...
He will take the post fromRishi Sunak, who was elected between general elections by members of his Conservative Party in 2022. Starmer, 61, has had a rapid political ascent after entering U.K. parliament less than a decade ago. But many Brits still know little about the man who has posi...
Local election results – at last Five whole days after the polls closed, the final results from this year’s local elections are in. Recounts atBroxtoweandMiddlesbroughare the reason it has taken so long. At least Tower Hamlets can no longer be branded the country’s slowest council. ...
bySavannah Fortis A UK-based Bitcoin organization is advocating to the new Labour government to implement a Bitcoin mining-based strategy to combat a growing problem of local electricity demand. 5788 Follow up Labour victory in UK elections renews crypto industry optimism ...
Pollsters worked out that if the results of the local elections were applied to a national general election each of the two main parties would gain a 35 percent share of the vote. Despite Labor predicted to do well against a government party torn by differences over the European Union and ...