Will the local elections spell turmoil for the Tories - or could they be TERMINAL? As the polls close, punters place their bets on the results

As the polls closed at 10pm on Thursday night, odds of the Conservative party losing 500 or more seats were at 45 per cent on the Betfair Exhange.

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