Two Labour councillors have defected to the Green Party, following in the footsteps of a colleague days earlier. Swindon Borough Council's Tom Butcher and Repi Begum will sit as Greens until the end of their terms in May 2026. Councillor Ian Edwards made the same move last week.

When Rayner stepped down as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary last month, she also left her job as deputy leader of the Labour Party. It’s easy to mix up that role with Deputy PM, the job that’s now been given to David Lammy, but it’s all about internal party politics rather than anything on a national scale.

The governing party said it was “deeply concerning” that Nigel Farage’s appearance in the U.S. Congress had been brokered by an organization that helped topple Roe v. Wade.

Labour is set to lose the Caerphilly by-election according to multiple sources within the party. It would bring to an end more than a century of Labour victories in the constituency in elections to Westminster and the Senedd. Recent polling suggests Plaid Cymru and Reform are fighting to challenge Labour's dominance in Wales.

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Plaid Cymru, a center-left nationalist party, defeated the right-wing Reform U.K. and Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour in a race seen as a test of his popularity.

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has suffered a local byelection defeat in a traditional Welsh stronghold, losing Caerphilly for the first time in any election in a century to the nationalist party Plaid Cymru.

Number 10’s focus on defectors to Reform exacerbates Labour’s problem. Polling by YouGov shows that more Britons think the government is trying to appeal to Reform voters than to its own. But pandering to Reform voters is no substitute for good government, and offends Labour’s most loyal supporters at a time when voters are less sticky than ever.

Two Labour councillors have defected to the Green Party after their colleague made the same move last week - as new leader Zack Polanski's party surges in popularity. Tom Butcher and Repi Begum from Swindon Borough Council will now sit as Greens until the end of their terms in May 2026.

In an area that Labour has represented for more than a century, the party was humiliated. Its vote collapsed from 46 per cent to 11 per cent as Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, took control.