Peter Walker

Yeah, I mean, Zach Polanski was in the Liberal Democrat Party and the Greens have massively shifted their politics recently.

It would be a massive thing.

I mean, it's one of those things which is simultaneously almost expected now and priced in.

A lot of Labour people know that the situation in London for them is going to be quite bad.

So they know to brace for the worst.

To take a council would be very, very big.

Hackney probably seems like the most likely one.

There's a couple of other ones, like Lambeth in South London is seen as a vague possibility.

And for example, if

the Greens took control of something like Lambeth Council or even became the biggest party group there.

That'd be massive.

I mean, these councils have been one party Labour state for about a decade.

These are the heartlands.

This is the place that Labour can just take for granted and kind of weigh the votes.

And it would be the first real sign of this problem that they've got of votes falling off on the left.

And it'd be a tangible sign, it'd be a wake-up call.

And for a lot of Labour MPs, they'd be thinking, oh my goodness, there's no such thing as a safe Labour seat anymore.

In some ways, they like to pretend it's not important because all the conversation is about kind of red wall post-industrial seats and has been for quite some time.

But in part, that's because London has been so solidly Labour.

But it's been this sort of thing where central London parliamentary seats, with a few exceptions, and the London councils have been so Labour that if they suddenly lose a lot of councillors, I mean, it's going to be devastating on a personal level.