Voters in parts of England will elect councillors and mayors on Thursday 1 May. These are the first local elections since the ...

In February, the government announced that local elections in East Sussex, West Sussex, Essex, Thurrock, Hampshire, the Isle ...

There are 23 local authorities holding elections, including 14 county councils. Elections are being held in England on May 1 ...

Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new ...

For nationalists in Belfast and east Ulster, there had been much debate since 1921 about whether (or not) to accept the ...

People across the United Kingdom headed to the polls on Thursday for local and regional elections in a vote ... Most interestingly the vote in Northern Ireland could signal a changing point ...

Over eight in ten Scots (83) say that public services have got worse in the last five years, higher than the UK average of 75. The Scottish ...

Scots are increasingly fed-up with the state of the NHS, schools, transport, roads and other key services on which they ...

The Irish Government has won a vote of confidence in the speaker of the parliament. The Government brought the motion after opposition parties initially proposed a no confidence motion in Ceann ...

Ireland’s opposition parties have been accused of engaging in “cynical strategies of aggression and disruption” by premier Micheal Martin as the confidence motion gets under way.

Global stocks fell on Thursday after Donald Trump unveiled “reciprocal” tariffs on US trading partners, with investors ...