A tory MP branded two BBC presenters “pathetic” as they clashed when discussing Ben Houchen’s re-election as Teeside mayor. Andrea Leadsom appeared to take offense after journalist Jo Cobrun pointed out Mr Houchen's vote was down and t ...

Rishi Sunak appeared to be optimistic despite the Conservatives suffering defeats across the country in Friday’s (3 May) local election results. Experts have warned the Tories could lose 500 seats in what could be their worst numbers in 40 years ...

We have reached the stage where Sunak’s MPs seek empathy for their inability to comply with their own policies, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

In the final part of our series on the plight of people with disabilities caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bel Trew speaks to a man who had only the use of one limb, his arm, about the terrible treatment Ukrainians are subjected to in Rus ...

A Conservative councillor hailed what he said was an "incredible" victory as the party's Harlow Council majority was cut from nine to a single seat in Thursday’s (2 May) local elections. Dan Swords said: "It's no secre ...

Labour claim they are poised to wipe tory MPs out in the north east despite Ben Houchen holding on a Tees Valley Mayor

Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis was mocked by Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth as tory councillors lost seats across the country in the local elections. Mr Ashworth goaded the tory deputy chairman during the BBC’s local election results programme ...

An orangutan has been filmed applying a plant with known pain-relieving properties to a wound in a first for a wild animal. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany, and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia, observed a male Su ...

tory chairman Richard Holden was asked if it is time to “get out the brandy and a loaded revolver’” as his party is set for a “catastrophic” election loss. Britain’s top polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice said the e ...

Who has won in each of the local elections and what is the picture in each region?

Panicking tory MPs are weighing up an appalling set of local election results to decide whether they need to ditch Rishi Sunak as party leader

The results don’t look good for the Conservatives or Rishi Sunak as pressure mounts on the PM to call general election

This exercise in shrinking the electorate to Conservative advantage must not be the new normal, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour grapples three local authorities from Tories with 72 councils yet to declare

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed Labour’s “incredible” victory in the Blackpool South local election. Visiting Blackpool on Friday (3 May), following Labour’s win, Sir Keir said victory in Blackpool South was “truly historic” ...

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to political lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to politcial lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis was mocked by Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth as tory councillors lost seats across the country in the local elections. Mr Ashworth goaded the tory deputy chairman during the BBC’s local election results programme ...

This is the moment Labour was announced victorious in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election on Friday (3 May). In the contest triggered by the resignation of former tory MP Scott Benton following a lobbying scandal, Labour’s Chris Webb secu ...

Baroness Warsi said party must learn from its West Midlands mayor Andy Street on ‘how inclusive and decent politics can be done’