Jen Williams

Lisa Nandy's seat is Wigan.

So it's a chunk of the borough.

All of the councillors that Labour...

were fielding this time lost to reform.

And that had not been unanticipated, but it was the worst case scenario.

And I think Labour had hoped that they might be able to defend a few of those seats and they just haven't been able to do so.

Elsewhere in Greater Manchester, again, obviously Andy Burnham's current backyard as mayor.

You saw a similar theme happening in Tameside.

And again, Tameside's significant.

Chief Whip Jonathan Reynolds' constituency is there.

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.