Keir Starmer is facing three days of political hell that could mark the beginning of the end of his time in Downing Street.
Polls opened this morning for elections to English councils and the Scottish and Welsh devolved assemblies in which Labour is on course for a major drubbing at the hands of disaffected voters.
Sir Keir yesterday vowed to go into polling day ‘fighting for every vote’ but acknowledged his party could be in for a ‘challenge’.
It is expected to lose up to 1,800 council seats and be only the third-largest party in Scotland and Wales, two former heartlands.
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