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Political parties make final pitches ahead of key elections

7 May, with results expected to follow on Friday and over the weekend. The polls will be the biggest test of public opinion since Labour won the general election in 2024. Opinion polling suggests

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

elections on 7 May. The 2021 census found British Asians made up almost half the population in the north-west London borough, which has been seen as a Conservative stronghold in recent years. A YouGov

Reform UK asks steel bosses to draft ‘alternative strategy’ for industry

7 May, in which the party is hoping to make gains in areas that have experienced decades of manufacturing job losses. Wales is a particular focus. The party is polling almost level with Plaid Cymru

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

election. But there was a period around Starmer's 2024 victory when the SNP appeared to be on the ropes. Voters were turning away from the party amid a police investigation into the party

The city caught in the middle of the big energy shift debate

7 May Scottish parliament election on a platform of maximising domestic fossil fuel production. "Shutting down North Sea oil and gas is the biggest act of self-harm," says the party's Scottish leader Malcolm

Could Lib Dems become the biggest party in English local government?

May the [Liberal Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liberaldemocrats), largely ignored in recent weeks, could wake up as the biggest party in English local government. This is just one of several paradoxes for the party’s leader

I'm on six different NHS waiting lists - it's taking over my life

election in Wales on 7 May, NHS waiting times are one of the challenges facing the next Welsh government. Amy-Jane, 30, from south Wales, was first diagnosed with endometriosis in 2018, a condition where

Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’?

UK had an unpopular Labour government facing an economic crisis, tensions around immigration and US pressure to back military action abroad. Such a backdrop may seem familiar, but this May, the all-out local elections

Lonely at the top: who are Keir Starmer’s allies as daunting May elections loom?

7 May, which are expected to be disastrous for his party. All that said, Starmer is not totally isolated. Unlike some prime ministers, whose connections in parliament felt largely transactional, there are people in Starmer

Green party threat to Labour in London laid bare in Starmer’s own back yard

7 May at the head of a much larger group. With support for Zack Polanski’s party expected to surge across the capital, nearby Hackney council is tipped to be the centre of a realignment

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

7 May, a third of candidates are women and two-thirds are men, with no party achieving gender parity, according to analysis by 50:50 Parliament and Democracy Club shared exclusively with the Guardian

If Plaid win in Wales, that won't mean independence - at least not yet

2024, there are questions over how well it has lowered that temperature mentioned by Morgan in her January speech. A long list of Welsh Labour demands for more powers, such as devolution of the Crown