Jen Williams

Angela Rayner's constituency is there.

It's part of the Gorton-Denton constituency where there was obviously a by-election in February.

So that has a degree of a kind of national significance for the Labour Party as well.

But actually, in both cases, they seem to be part of a kind of broader trend.

Salford, most of the Labour seats lost, mostly to reform.

Etc, etc.

And then also over on Merseyside too.

And this kind of, I'm sure we'll get to the Andy Burnham story and where he ends up standing, but you can see a similar pattern in Holton and Merseyside and today St.

Helens, which is one of the specific places that has been tipped as a potential seat for Andy Burnham to stand in if he wants to go back to Westminster.

That's unusual in that has an all-out election this time as a one-off.

So that means that all the councillors are up, which means that it could flip entirely from Labour to reform.

So although not all of these councils are going to change hands overnight, you can very much see which direction things are going in.

And I think the other thing, just to add on some of the results here that haven't yet come through, we haven't seen the northern cities yet.

And in northern cities...

Like Manchester and Leeds, Labour are defending seats both from reform and from the Greens.

The early signs from Salford, which has seats right on the border of Manchester city centre last night, it was the Greens are getting purchased in those sort of urban professional wards.

So here it couldn't so far have been an awful lot worse.

Well, I think the trend was sufficiently pronounced that late afternoon I was getting messages from people saying,

out campaigning and following this in councils in different parts of the country saying, turnout is definitely up.

So it was something that was kind of clocked relatively early doors.