Lewis Goodall

in the sense that they are losing votes and seats and councils and support to the main opposition party.

That is not happening.

The Conservatives are losing council seats for the fifth consecutive year on the bounce, down 264 seats.

There are some seats in some areas where they've got a little bit of sign of revival, but generally speaking, they too are losing ground to reform.

Labour, the thing that makes this different for Labour is that they are losing ground and support in some cases to an existential extent, i.e.

being wiped out in councils in the north of England, in particular in the Midlands, that they have controlled government.

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.