Lewis Goodall
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for 50 years or longer ever since these councils were created.
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.
And we haven't even talked yet.
about what is going on in Scotland and Wales.
Scotland looks like Labour might not do too badly by comparison to some of the predictions.
But in Wales, it is nothing short of catastrophic, with two things at the time of recording that we're hearing.
One is that the Welsh First Minister, Eluned Morgan, is very likely to lose her seat.
The first time that a head of government in this country anywhere has lost their seat at a parliamentary election.
And Labour may be reduced.
In a country...
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.
He's actually been in politics for longer, pretty much, than any of the party leaders.
I think the Labour Party has got a decision to make on the basis of these results.
And it's not just these results.
We've seen it over the past 24 months now.
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 question is, is whether the Labour Party for once has got enough guts, enough bottle to do something about it.
Why do I say that?
Look, lots of things can be true at once, right?
There are complexities with these election results and with politics at the moment.