3 h. ago ‘Disillusionment’ a driver ahead of local elections, says pollster

Voters across parts of England will go to the polls on Thursday to elect councillors, regional mayors, and a new MP in the seat of Runcorn and Helsby.

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6 h. ago Tory plight could worsen, warns William Hague as Nigel Farage's Reform firms up poll lead

The Conservatives are predicted to lose hundreds of council seats on Thursday, May 1

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9 h. ago Reform extends poll lead as Tories brace for hammering in local elections on Thursday

YouGov research put Nigel Farage's party on 26 per cent support nationally - creeping up a point since last week.

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29 h. ago Thursday’s elections will be ‘tough’, PM admits as campaigning enters final week

The upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election will run alongside local elections and it is expected to be a tight contest between Labour and Reform UK.

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42 h. ago Tory councillors CAN form pacts with Reform at local elections, says Kemi Badenoch

Predictions circulating in Conservative Campaign HQ suggest that as much as 80 per cent of the 960 council seats the party gained four years ago will be wiped out in Thursday's local elections.

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5 d. ago Tories 'face losing 500 councillors' in local elections next week as Kemi Badenoch dismisses Robert Jenrick's hint at 'coalition' with Reform

Lord Robert Hayward, a Conservative peer and top pollster, said he expects the Tories to lose between 475 to 525 councillors at next Thursday's elections.

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6 d. ago Farage's Reform UK stretches poll lead on Tories as Jenrick seeks 'one way or another' to unite the Right

The latest YouGov poll showed Reform on 25%, up two points on last week, with the Conservatives on 20%, down one point

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8 d. ago Reform surge in local elections could hand Lib Dems seats and hammer Tories who have the 'most to lose', polling guru says

Professor John Curtice said Nigel Farage's party might not be the 'big winners' from the contests on May 1 despite high levels of support.

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1 week ago ‘We’re going to stand up to Trump,’ says Mark Carney in second Canadian election debate

PM focuses on threat from across the border as most polls show his Liberals leading Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party in tight raceCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, faced sustained attacks from his Conservative rival at an election debate on Thursday but the Liberal leader sought to focus attention on what he calls Canada’s top threat: Donald Trump, the US president.Most opinion polls show Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party trailing Carney’s Liberals ahead of the 28 April vote for Canada’s federal government. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Every candidate hoping to win the Balderstone and Kirkholt council by

The by-election is due to be held on Thursday, May 1

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