Lucy Fisher
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Appearances Over Time
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They've had a bad night overall, suffered heavy losses in councillor terms.
They've lost more than 170 seats at the time of recording.
But there's been a silver lining for Kemi Badenoch's party in London.
They've won back Westminster, which they lost in this shock defeat to Labour at the last round of these elections.
They've also become the biggest group again on Wandsworth, although it's no overall control.
What do you make of their performance overall?
So, Jim, can I ask you, why aren't we hearing more questions about Kemi Badenoch's future?
Because this time last year, shadow cabinet members, Tory MPs were saying, look, she's got another year to turn things around.
But if we're not starting to properly rebuild and make gains, her leadership could be on the line.
And I should also add, quite striking the way she's presented the results this morning, isn't it?
Talking about signs of conservative renewal and glossing quite quickly over those heavy councillor losses.
I think we should also say that Badenoch has done a good job with the donors shoring up support there and the party managed to fundraise pretty successfully in the past year, which I think has boosted morale a bit as well.
Jen, is it too early to talk about the Greens?
Some early signals that they might have been slightly underwhelming compared with expectations.
Stephen, I don't want to talk too much about the things we'll know more about later, but it looks like the Scottish and Welsh parliaments could end up with coalitions, but clearly nationalist parties going to do well there.
Not a good night for unionists, is it?
Whichever word on the Lib Dems and Ned Davey too, is he in trouble at all?
Richmond, London, we should say.
Well, we've had a look at all the parties.