Local elections briefing: what you need to know as Reform sweeps the country

5/8/202633 min

It’s results day, and Nigel Farage is the local elections winner – again. A wave of teal has swept the country, stealing Labour seats from Hartlepool to Havering.

This election was sold by insurgent parties as a referendum on Keir Starmer and the story of Labour’s election so far is that they’re haemorrhaging votes on all sides – including to the Tories in Westminster. So what can we interpret so far? Will Starmer get the message and will the herd move against him?

Michael Gove speaks to Tim Shipman, James Heale and Charlotte Pickles, chief executive of thinktank Re:State, at this morning’s Coffee House Shots breakfast briefing.

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Labor needs its head tested

‘Everybody can see we’re rubbish’

From apathy to anger

The Greens’ angry graduates

Reform’s betrayed working class

Labour losing to everyone

‘Find his way to exit’

London’s anti-extremism snapback

Cleverly eyes the mayoralty

Reform’s respectability dilemma

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[upbeat music] Good morning, and we are meeting, uh, as we see the unfolding picture across England of how people voted in what was a crucial midterm test for the government, a key threshold for Nigel Farage, a opportunity to discern whether or not Zac Polanski really is the insurgent force that will challenge Labour from the left, a health check on Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party, and let us not forget also an opportunity to reflect on the Liberal Democrats'

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