Keir Starmer says the prime minister has no option but to call a general election Rishi Sunak was dealt a series of shattering blows last night as Labour won a knife-edge battle to seize the West Midlands mayoralty from the Conservatives and Sadiq Khan trounced his Tory rival in London […]
Devastating defeats give Tory MPs more reasons to fear what will befall them when the country delivers its verdict The mayoral elections demonstrated that there is a way to win for a Conservative. This is to make out that you have nothing to do with the Tories. Of the metro […]
Rob Ford was part of the BBC team analysing the local election results as they poured in over the past 48 hours. Here he tells how a dramatic set of results for the government unfolded The nervous wait for the first result was longer than usual, as counting centres wrestled […]
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’ The Conservatives are facing one of their worst local election results in 40 years, with striking Labour gains across England and Wales in key battlegrounds they need to secure victory at […]
The leader and his chancellor look like incumbents. That will make voters even more impatient for solutions to Britain’s ills It was not an opinion poll. These were local elections about local issues. The results tell you only about where we are now, not where we might be come the […]
Tory council representation has imploded, but Labour’s gains have not been seismic. These charts show what this may signal for a general election Full 2024 council results for England UK general election opinion poll tracker Conservative representation has collapsed to its lowest level since 1998 in the areas that voted […]
Tactical voting delivers only a near-victory for party in council election in the traditionally Conservative Berkshire stronghold In true-blue Berkshire, the skies were a prophetic grey on Friday as the Liberal Democrats were a whisker away from winning Wokingham. The district, where the veteran Tory MP John Redwood and the […]
As party narrowly misses out on overall majority, co-leader says it has won spread of urban and rural seats The Greens are celebrating a spectacular win in Bristol, where it became by far the largest party, as it headed for a record number of councillors in local elections across England. […]
Conservatives predicted to lose 500 council seats in England – about half the number they are defending Local elections: latest updates Local elections 2024: full council results for England Voting has closed in local elections, a moment of potential peril for Rishi Sunak, with the Conservatives braced for heavy losses […]
Results from more than 100 English councils, as well as for several mayors, are announced as polls predict heavy Conservative losses. Find out what happened in your area Local elections: latest updates Continue reading…