With the next general election within 18 months, Sir Keir Starmer has to demonstrate he is clawing back Labour’s lost supporters ⬇️ NigelpMorris explains
will have little to celebrate following the first big test of political opinion since he became Prime Minister.will elect more than 8,000 councillors in every English region apart from London on 4 May.
The Conservatives performed dismally in 2019, the last time these seats were fought, in the midst of Theresa May’s futile attempts to complete a Brexit deal, losing more than 1,300 seats and control of 44 councils. The 2019 local election were not a night to write home about for Labour either, when the party matched the Tories on a miserable 28 per cent of the vote and lost six councils. Seven months later, Labour had crashed to its worst general election result since 1935 as voters rejected Jeremy Corbyn’s prospectus.
“The Tories are in the opposite position: they will be looking for some hopeful shafts of light amidst what everyone’s presuming will be the gloom.”
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