Labour have taken a battering, but Keir Starmer staggers on – for now.
By any standards, this was a bleak set of results for a party of government. Labour faced humiliation in the North, South, East and West in a mega round of local elections that will ultimately seal Sir Keir’s fate.
Nigel Farage smashed through Labour’s Red Wall to record a series of stunning gains that will send shockwaves through the party’s high command.
In Hartlepool, Labour lost every seat to Reform. The local Labour MP, whose wife was among the defeated candidates, made the first of what transpired to be many
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