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Lewis Goodall

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The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

for 50 years or longer ever since these councils were created.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

And it is unusual because they are bleeding support in two directions to two basically new forces on the political scene, Reform and the Greens.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

And we haven't even talked yet.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

about what is going on in Scotland and Wales.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

Scotland looks like Labour might not do too badly by comparison to some of the predictions.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

But in Wales, it is nothing short of catastrophic, with two things at the time of recording that we're hearing.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

One is that the Welsh First Minister, Eluned Morgan, is very likely to lose her seat.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

The first time that a head of government in this country anywhere has lost their seat at a parliamentary election.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

And Labour may be reduced.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

In a country...

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

that they have won every election in for a century, may be reduced to having about 10% of the seats in the Senate, about 10 of 96.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

He's actually been in politics for longer, pretty much, than any of the party leaders.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

I think the Labour Party has got a decision to make on the basis of these results.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

And it's not just these results.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

We've seen it over the past 24 months now.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

Everyone you actually speak to in the Labour Party believes that Keir Starmer is a disaster for the Labour Party and is proving himself a disaster for the Labour Party.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

The question is, is whether the Labour Party for once has got enough guts, enough bottle to do something about it.

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

Why do I say that?

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

Look, lots of things can be true at once, right?

The News Agents
Election Special: Is it change or die for Labour?

There are complexities with these election results and with politics at the moment.