Bev Turner

And Labour...

have been absolutely obliterated in these elections.

So they lost 1,500 councillors.

The Reform Party, that's Nigel Farage's right-wing party, they gained 1,500 councillors.

The Conservatives, who were in power for 14 years, they lost 500.

And the Green Party, which I've explained to you before, is not necessarily about saving the world anymore.

It's about saving Muslims.

They gained 450 seats as well.

So absolutely seismic shift in terms of politics locally.

But the importance of this is that it signposts what could happen in the general election in two years.

Well, some would say the Conservative Party haven't been a Conservative Party for many years.

They were in power...

for 14 years before the general election that was nearly two years ago now.

And they had prime ministers, including Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss.

But Nigel Farage, who's never been prime minister, looking extremely likely now that he might win in the next election,

is, of course, the guy who was the architect of Brexit.

And also he has been campaigning on the idea that a secure border should be the basics of expectations of citizens of a country.

I mean, it's radical, I know.

And also talking about a smaller state, less bureaucracy, lower taxes where possible, very much a sort of Republican campaign.

ticket, quite Trumpian, actually.