Henry Riley

He wants him there.

Angela Rayner, I mean, certainly not going full throttle for a leadership election.

She does have that tax issue, as you say, Claire, that's being investigated by HMRC.

But I think ultimately being interpreted...

Yes, an endorsement of Andy Burnham's skills, but ultimately an ultimatum on Keir Starmer saying if things don't get better, then it's either Andy or I, but someone is going to move.

Around a third of the councils that are up for election, there's 136 in total.

We've had around a third of those declared.

There's just over 5,000 councillors who are up for election in England, of course.

We don't know the picture yet from Scotland and Wales.

They've just started.

counting in those areas.

But certainly based on these local elections, it's a very good night for Reform UK based on the results coming in.

They've just ticked over 400 seats in terms of councillors.

And as your news headlines have been reflecting, it's been a really bruising night for Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party.

I'm actually joining you from Havering, which is the

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

are reduced to zero.

They've gone from 23 to zero.

And I've just been speaking with Nigel Farage, who's been in Havering, as you might expect, sort of basking in the results, not just here, but in areas like Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire.

And I mean, he's very much making the point that he is a government in waiting.