Lucy Fisher

We're expecting a devastating set of results for Labour.

It could be their worst ever showing at a local election in England.

We're expecting a devastating set of results for Labour.

It could be their worst ever showing at a local election in England.

In Wales, it looks like they will lose control of the Senedd, the devolved Assembly, for the first time in 100 years.

And in Scotland, while Labour was sort of on track at the time of Keir Starmer winning the election in 2024...

It looked like they could regain Holyrood, the Scottish devolved parliament.

It now looks like the Scottish nationalists are going to hang on in there and Labour could even be shunted down to third place in Scotland.

So it's going to be a very, very difficult night for Keir Starmer.

Well,

Well, in truth, the anger at Starmer is everywhere.

I think everyone is bracing to see what happens on May the 8th, the day when the results come in, and over that weekend, whether any member of the cabinet or wider party goes over the parapet and leads a challenge against Keir Starmer.

The Mandelson debacle has certainly been the focus in Westminster in recent weeks, and it has shone a spotlight on Keir Starmer's judgment.

However, polling suggests

It's the traditional issues of the economy and the cost of living, health care and the state of the NHS, and migration that are the real flashpoint issues.

Obviously, the Iran inflation shock and what that's done to push up the price of fuel, food, energy bills, that has been a really difficult pinch point.

Well, it's a really good question why and how the UK's traditional two-party system is being broken apart.

And we're seeing this multi-party system.

I think on the right, reform have really seized the issue of migration.

And while Labour has managed to bring down overall net migration when it comes to legal migration, I think there's a sense from some voters that the established options have been tried and failed.