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Updated · The Guardian · May 7
Keir Starmer tells voters Farage and Polanski are unfit
Updated
Updated · The Guardian · May 7

Keir Starmer tells voters Farage and Polanski are unfit

5 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 7
  • On England's local election day, Labour MPs said losses above 1,500 council seats would be existential, while Oxford's Stephen Fisher predicted about 1,900 seats could fall.
  • Labour hopes for early London holds in Westminster and Wandsworth, but Reform is expected to capture former Labour strongholds including Barnsley and Sunderland.
  • The party also risks setbacks in Scotland and Wales, fuelling speculation over Starmer's leadership despite no immediate resignation push expected from senior Labour mayors.
With Labour facing historic losses, can any party offer a real solution to the UK's 'managed decline'?
As voters abandon establishment parties, is Britain witnessing the final collapse of its post-war political order?