Starmer was a drag on the Labour vote in Wales but the King of the North might need to become the Ki
Starmer was a drag on the Labour vote in Wales but the King of the North might need to become the King of the South.– politicalbetting.com
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It's looked fragile but always held up before, but it was obviously more brittle than anyone could have expected.
Currently:
Reform 21
Lib Dem 19
Green 18
Independent 3
Labour 2
Back from an afternoon tea with friends arranged by Mrs Stodge who didn't think I would want to follow the election results.
Here in Newham, I got it wrong.
Labour held on the Mayoralty with Forhad Hussain polling 30.4% and 25,538 votes which left him 5,200 ahead of Mehmood Mirza of the NIP who got 24.1% and the Green Areeq Chowdhury who polledone vote short of 19,000 or 22.6% of the vote.
On those numbers, Labour are going to lose their majority on the Council forwhich counting is presumably under way.
Elsewhere, what I said this morning still holds true - the thing about elections is they are never as good as you hope or as bad as you fear
I think all the five main parties can take some stock from that adage. All have had some successes and disappointments so far but still a lot of results to come.
Reform 1079, Labour 685, LDs 681, Conservatives 612, Greens 343
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news#election-england
Kenton Labour's best hope in the City. Too posh for Reform, not posh enough for Lib Dems, too old for Greens?
Even so,, Labour did very badly and most definitely Labour voters voted PC to punish Starmer.
In Wales Labour have collapsed to third but Plaid will need Labour support on bills to get a majority and stop Reform holding up their legislation
Currently:
Reform 24
Lib Dem 19
Green 18
Independent 3
Labour 2
Gain of 20 seats and 50 out of 54 is just holding on?
She works for a Norwegian energy company and runs a mobile sauna business and, as such, will be one of the few SNP MSPs who doesn't come with prior political experience.
Are the SNP appreciably more 'political' with their candidates than others?
Currently (with 2 wards to go):
Reform 24
Green 21
Lib Dem 19
Independent 3
Labour 2
The Conservatives now have just 19 of the 54 seats compared with the 35 they held in 2022.
Sky seem to have stopped updating since halftime.
https://x.com/moneillsf/status/2052794755713491342
"I have contacted SNP leader John Swinney and Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth to congratulate them on their enormous mandates. For the first time ever, there could be three pro-independence First Ministers across these islands. More and more people are looking towards a future beyond the constraints of the Union."
I'll leave others to comment.
In 2024 the LDs won most votes in all 3 district wards in Epping and Theydon Bois, today the LDs were 3rd in two and the county ward behind both the Tories and Reform and lost Epping East, a ward they have won since 2015, to Reform. Today was a disastrous day for Epping Forest LDs and also Epping Forest Greens who have lost their 1 Buckhurst Hill seat and been wiped out
But they fell just short of holding Solihull which goes NoC
So perhaps he would like to STFU and leave the stage open for someone with more than 0% chance of actually being a candidate (preferably an attractive candidate) to be the realistic next PM?
As several wags have said - maybe he should stand as an indie.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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Another Labour MP calls for Starmer to go. It wasn't survivable for him before this. But it's unravelling completely now. Briefing in the week was PLP had to move first. Well, it's moved.
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2052786392917254397
Ed Davey will be mildly disappointed they will likely end up behind Labour, but they've gained seats and control one more council than they did yesterday, while their NEV is up slightly. And in Scotland they'll have more than doubled their Holyrood count, and will probably end up on 9-10 seats (assuming they win Caithness).
Cabinet ministers now coming out for Starmer to stay including Heidi Alexander who has said a leadership election would be 'vanity'.
6 seats to go. Currently:
Reform 24
Lib Dem 22
Green 21
Independent 3
Labour 2
@Steven_Swinford
BREAKING
Labour has lost control of Brent, which wasn't even considered to be at risk
There's been a Green/ Lib Dem surge and Labour has lost 21 seats.
It's looking very bad for Labour in London
It would almost certainly be a Green majority with Reform probably in second place if all seats were up for election.
And as Gallowgates updates show Reform currently have most seats.
Ouch, especially for Labour.
On a separate point, I think AB Esq. needs to stay in Manchester.
But there was a real threat in these local elections that the Greens would supplant the LDs, certainly on NEV share, and potentially in terms of councillors. That was the existential threat to them.
And that hasn't happened.
(Plus, last time a Labour government got unpopular, in the 2006-2010 period, the LDs didn't do that well. It was mostly the Conservatives who benefited.)
To my mind this defers indyref2 for a decade. Because we won’t get one in this Holyrood term and it feels very unlikely that the SNP will somehow go back to a majority in the NEXT Holyrood elections. So that’s no indyref2 for ten years?
Which, given the chaos everywhere else, is a small but important mercy
After another ten years, however, who knows. That will be 22 years since the last. A generation
Plaid will govern as a minority party, even though Reform may support Independence as they have indicated in Scotland !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@RachelReevesMP
These are tough election results for Labour and I’m sorry to all of those colleagues who have lost their seats.
Keir Starmer won a mandate to change our country.
We must get on with delivering that mandate - and show how politics can improve people’s lives for the better.
https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/2052805448059773197
Translation into English: I'm as totally out of touch as the Prime Minister and think one more heave and we will see a turn around.
The Lib Dems are the party of liberal, free trade internationalism with a policy programme that reflects that, just like their counterparts in Europe. You may not like the platform, but that’s what it is.
3 seats to go. Currently:
Lib Dem 25
Reform 24
Green 21
Independent 3
Labour 2
This is going to be Brown all over again.