The study by comparethemarket.com looked at the percentage of recycled waste, searches for ‘recycling centre’ and ‘electric cars’, air quality and number of parks.

Breakdown of the electoral figures continue to make the case that electoral reform could be needed.

Solace has written to Boris Johnson, the newly re-elected Prime Minister, urging him to ‘reset the dial for local government’.

Psychologists at Nottingham Trent University have argued that foster carers need more support to combat stress and burnout.

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas has been re-elected to her Brighton Pavilion seat, increasing her majority by five per cent.
The former party leader, who defeated her nearest Labour rival by nearly 20,000 votes, remains the Green’s only MP. After being announced as victor, Lucas took aim at the electoral system, saying she was ‘deeply angry’ at a ‘broken’ political system.

After his party's worse performance in many a year, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not lead the party in any future election campaign.
Promising a period of 'relection', the North Islington MP said that Brexit had polarised British politics. Labour won 203 seats, 59 less than in 2017. The party, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales, places which predominantly backed to leave the EU in 2016, is now facing its worst defeat since 1935.

Jo Swinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has narrowly lost her seat of Dunbartonshire East.
Having made the sweeping statement that she would be the next Prime Minister at the start of election campaigning, Swinson received 19,523 seats, 149 votes less than Amy Callaghan of the SNP.
In what she said will bring 'dread and dismay' to many prople across the UK, the Liberal Democrats are set to win 11 seats, one less than in 2017 and far less than expected given recent parliamentary defactions to the party and by-election gains of the last 12 months.

Nicola Sturgeon has labelled the success of the Scottish National Party as representing a clear message on Scottish independence.

The Conservative Party has won a working majority in the 2019 General Election.
Despite a SNP resurge north of the border, Boris Johnson's party has secured the 326 seats necessary to form Parliament, actually returning with 365 seats.
Several forecasts believe that the Tories will return to Downing Street with a majority of 74, proving that the 'Get Brexit Done' manifesto was the correct path to follow.