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Scotland's first minister has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that a second independence referendum is "a matter of when - not if".more

Votes have been counted in the 2021 local elections in Barnsley and the ruling Labour group has ended the day with the same number of seats as it began.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the devolved nations to a summit on how "Team UK" can recover from the pandemic. It follows the SNP's fourth Scottish Parliament election win in a row and Labour's win in the Welsh Parliament.more

"So glad that the citizens of London appreciated your hard work for your city through recent years, especially during the pandemic. London is and will remain open! - Congratulations to my friend @SadiqKhan" - Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski said in a tweet.more

Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the SNP's "historic and extraordinary" fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament election. The party finished on 64 seats - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016.more

Labour's Sadiq Khan has won a second term as London's mayor, beating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey. He won 55.2% of the popular vote, after entering a run-off with Mr Bailey when neither managed to secure a majority in the first round of voting.more

The UK still counts the votes cast in Thursday's local elections in England and in the Scottish Parliament. The most important question now is whether the Scottish National Party (SNP) will have an absolute majority.more

The ruling Conservative Party won the by-election to the House of Commons in Hartlepool, North East England, taking over another of the recent Labor bastions in that part of the country, it was announced this morning.more

About 48 million people in England, Wales and Scotland will be able to take part in the elections, many of them postponed from last year because of the pandemic. As well as polls for the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd in Wales, there are elections for seats on 143 English councils and 13 local mayors.more

Senior Labour figures have backed Sir Keir Starmer as he faces pressure from the left of the party to “consider his position” if he fails to make progress in red wall areas today.more

Wednesday is the last day of the campaign in Great Britain before a series of elections at various levels, which may determine the political future of several party leaders, and in the longer term - the future of the country in its present shape.more

Sadiq Khan said he will look to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games back to London if he is re-elected as the capital’s mayor.more

Mayoral candidate Laurence Fox today unveiled plans for “Lexit” — allowing London boroughs to opt out of obeying City Hall.more

Sadiq Khan has announced plans to abandon the £15 congestion charge and scale it back to a weekday levy. The charge was “temporarily” hiked from £11.50 to £15 last June, and its hours were extended until 10pm, including at weekends.more

Shaun Bailey, the Conservative Party's candidate for mayor of London, visited the Polish church in Balham yesterday, which saw an incident on Good Friday when police interrupted the service.more

Voters in England, Scotland and Wales have until the end of the day to register for the May elections, if they have not already done so. It is believed that there are up to 9.4 million unregistered voters in the UK, who will thus lose the opportunity to choose their candidate.more

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is entering the Bundestag election campaign with radical demands such as Germany's withdrawal from the EU. In addition to Dexit, the group wants, inter alia, restrictions on immigration and lifting the obligation to wear masks.more

Sadiq Khan is to launch a review examining the feasibility of decriminalising cannabis as part of a new approach to tackling drug-related crime in London. more

The sitting Labour mayor is ahead of his Conservative rival by 47 per cent to 26 per cent with a month to go, the YouGov research revealed.more

A record number of 20 candidates will contest the London mayoral elections, it was announced today.more

Three organizations - Polish Migrants Organize for Change (POMOC), New Europeans UK and Polonia Express - will host a bilingual debate before the elections for the mayor of London for Polish women and residents. The online event is part of She Votes / Ona Votes, a national non-party campaign to mobilize 10,000 Polish women and their families before Maymore

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will contest the Scottish Parliament election.more

NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has confirmed. Nurses, paramedics and domestic staff are among those who could receive the boost to their salaries.more

The co-leader of the Green Party is putting a £14 living wage at the heart of her campaign to become London Mayor.more

More than a third of Londoners believe they would do a better job as mayor than Sadiq Khan, according to new polling.more