The Conservative chairman has maintained that Rishi Sunak is still the "right man" to be Prime Minister despite a "bruising" set of local election results.
Keir Starmer has hailed a "historic" campaign in Blackpool South, where Labour efeated the Conservatives, after a night where his party also won control of several local councils.
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