After nine years of Tory government, Labour should have been making serious inroads into Tory territory, writes Sky's Beth Rigby.
Twenty-five years ago, the main opposition was wiping the floor with a jaded Tory government and yet in these locals the voters have wiped the floor with them. Labour brought in net losses of 86 seats.
Cross-party talks resume next week but even if the two frontbench teams can secure a deal, getting it past their backbenchers is an entirely different matter. It's too early to say whether these local elections mark the beginning of the end for two-party politics. But the volume of spoiled ballots by disgruntled voters tells us that the plague afflicting both main parties is Brexit.The Lib Dems put on 704 seats and independents took 862 seats more - as voters, who coalesced around the Tories and Labour in the 2017 general election, splintered once more.
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