Daily Express :: Local Elections 2025 Feedhttps://www.express.co.ukSimply The Best 7 Days A Weeken-gbhttps://www.express.co.ukhttps://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/logorss.gifDaily ExpressTue, 07 Apr 2026 22:12:19 +0100http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssCakePHPnews@express.co.uknews@express.co.uk<![CDATA[Exact date households must reply to letter or face losing vote]]>

Households must respond to a letter inviting people to vote before the deadline.

]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0000UKVoter ID, Local Elections 2025, voter registration, local elections, voter ID requirements, Electoral Commission guidance<![CDATA[Terrorist convicted of bomb plot defends decision to stand in UK election]]>

Shahid Butt, a candidate to become a councillor in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, served five years in prison in Yemen.

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:18:00 +0000UKBirmingham, Local Elections 2025, Shahid Butt, Birmingham election, terrorism conviction, political controversy<![CDATA[Nigel Farage orders Labour to back off drivers in major fuel duty promise]]>

Reform plans to put the cost of living at the centre of its campaigning.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:15:00 +0000PoliticsNigel Farage, Fuel duty, Local Elections 2025, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Cost of living, Nigel Farage fuel duty, Nigel Farage latest, Nigel Farage local elections, Nigel Farage news<![CDATA[Keir Starmer's secret plot to cling onto power next year using King Charles]]>

The PM's advisors have come up with a cunning scheme to avoid a leadership election next year.

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:59:00 +0000PoliticsKing Charles III, Labour Party, Keir Starmer, Local Elections 2025, King Charles, Labour leadership, local elections<![CDATA[Reform UK council leader who is only 18 wins apology from top Tory ]]>

Still a teenager, George Finch is the acting head of a county council

]]>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:06:00 +0100PoliticsNigel Farage, Reform UK, Local Elections 2025, George Finch, Kevin Hollinrake, Warwickshire County Council<![CDATA[Goverment urged to use £86 pension surplus for councils' black holes]]>

A pensions expert has raised the prospect of councils in England and Wales using £86 billion 'extra' pension cash to fund starved local services.

]]>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:29:00 +0100UKPension, Local Elections 2025, Local Government Pension Scheme, pension surplus, local services funding, Kensington and Chelsea council.<![CDATA[Reform could 'go to war on public sector pensions' as expert issues verdict]]>

Reform is likely to target local authority spending on final salary or 'gold-plated' pensions, an expert has said.

]]>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:49:00 +0100Personal FinanceNigel Farage, Pension, Reform UK, Local Elections 2025, Public sector pensions, Local elections 2025<![CDATA[Labour mutiny as MPs return to Westminster after Reform thrashing]]>

Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to change direction after Labour's local election thrashing by Reform

]]>Tue, 06 May 2025 17:32:00 +0100PoliticsLabour Party, Keir Starmer, Local Elections 2025, Politics (section), UK Politics (section), Labour mutiny, local elections, working class discontent<![CDATA[Keir Starmer told 'raise taxes to fight off Nigel Farage' as Labour in panic mode]]>

Louise Haigh says the Prime Minister has to 'rip up' his Government's 'self-imposed' rule against raising income tax, VAT and National Insurance.

]]>Sun, 04 May 2025 21:37:00 +0100PoliticsKeir Starmer, Labour Party, Local Elections 2025, Louise Haigh, Keir Starmer news, Keir Starmer latest, Keir Starmer local elections, <![CDATA[Pro-Gaza candidate who beat Reform UK in a council seat called for sex segregation]]>

A council seat in Lancashire has been won by a candidate who campaigned against "free mixing" between Muslim men and women.

]]>Sun, 04 May 2025 11:17:00 +0100PoliticsGaza Strip, Local Elections 2025, Mahhen Kamran, sex segregation, pro-Gaza, Lancashire elections