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and now some electoral proof to back up what the polls appeared to be showing. For the first time in decades, early results from UK local elections show huge losses for the main two dominant parties, the current governing Labour Party and the opposition Conservatives. The big winner so far is the populist right-wing Reform UK party, while the centrist Liberal Democrats are also performing strongly, and the populist left-wing Green Party also picking up a number of seats.
And I think what's interesting, Claire, is where do the Labour Party go?
conservatives but that's hardly surprising given the drubbing that they received at the last general election here in july of 2024 so i think it's going to be a difficult night for her and and but certainly there won't be questions about her leadership purely because there is that recognition that the party's in a difficult place the last time these councils elected was right after the vaccine and and there was seen to be a sort of vaccine bounce but but really claire we've heard
first part of london to go turk boys the first area that reform uk have won in the capital and they didn't just win claire they won huge they've won 70 percent of the councillors 39 of the 55 the conservatives who were actually the largest party here in terms of seats last time out
And Starmer, who secured a massive election victory for the centre-left Labour Party back in 2024, ending, we should say, 14 years of Conservative control, still has a very big majority in Parliament.
And what you're going to see later on today is the Conservative Party being wiped out in their heartlands like Essex.
We've got a partial picture of the council results in England so far. It's about a quarter of the council seats that were counted overnight. From that partial picture, there's a really clear trend. That clear trend is that what we've been talking about for quite a long time, which is this notion that the electorate is fragmenting, i.e. they're looking to other parties other than the two parties that have traditionally been dominant in Westminster, that's Labour and the Conservatives, they're looking elsewhere. From the seats we've had in overnight, reform seemed to be the big beneficiaries of that.
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