George Parker
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It may well be that it has negligible impact on the British political debate if it turns out to have been an intruder, a burglary, a robbery or whatever with these terrible consequences.
So
There may not be broader conclusions to be drawn, but you are right.
I mean, the atmosphere around British politics has been Brexit sort of was the poison, I think, which was injected into the system.
Actually, to be honest, it started a couple of years earlier with the Scottish independence referendum.
I think anyone who...
had taken part in that referendum would have seen the the amount of vitriol and threats that were put around so it's been a feature of british politics now for the best part of probably 10 or 15 years um you know everyone just needs to take a deep breath social media has made things worse does it deter good people from coming into politics yes definitely does it deter women in particular from coming into politics yes i say that's definitely the case so yeah it's it's bad for the body policy generally but let's wait and see how this investigation pans out
Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure after Labour suffered heavy losses in England's local elections, with Nigel Farage's Reform UK making historic gains across traditional Labour and Conservative strongholds.
As the political map shifts dramatically, George Parker, Financial Times political editor, joins me now to sift through the rubble.
George, good morning.
Morning.
So just to give us in summary, what's the picture like?
Scotland, Wales and England.
Is it catastrophic for Starmer?
Yes, I think it is.
I mean, it's one of the worst sets of results we've ever seen from a governing party.
The Labour Party lost 1,400 odd seats.
They were defending 2,500.
So a large proportion of the seats they were defending went down the drain.
At the same time, Nigel Farage's Reform UK came up.
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