Former Nottinghamshire MP Lord Vernon Coaker has been appointed to Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
The low turnout in last week’s General Election could threaten the legitimacy of political leaders if the trend continues, a Nottingham politics expert has warned.
The Conservative Party has been left with just one Nottinghamshire MP after suffering a thumping defeat both locally and nationally.
The Conservative Party's Ben Bradley says Reform "massively hurt our chances" after he lost his Mansfield seat to Labour's Stephen Yemm.
Labour wins Rushcliffe in historic political turnaround for former Conservative stronghold
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Rushcliffe's formerly safe blue seat has turned red after more than five decades of Conservative rule, marking an historic political shift for the borough and delivering one of the Tory party's bitterest blows of the General Election.