Shortly. Sunshine. All the details very shortl. , its saturday 4 may. Our main story rishi sunak has insisted the conservatives have Everything To Fight For, despite the party losing nearly half the seats contested in local elections in england. With results expected in several mayoral races today, the tories will be hoping that andy street can cling on as mayor in the West Midlands. Having already won key councils and a decisive by election, labours expected to hold on to most of the regional mayors up for grabs. Our Political Correspondent, harry farley, has the story. Not many smiles around for the conservatives. The party is that for its worst local elections result in years. One result did bring some cheerfor rishi sunak. X t aur cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of cheer for rishi sunak. Your i reelected mayor of teesside cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of Teesside Ben Houchen
And i dont know about you guys at home. Or you, emma , but guys at home. Or you, emma, but im dubbing today, super saturday, because the results of the london Mayoral Elections. Sadiq khan against susan hall. Are announced around about 2 00. And at the moment, the rumours are the whispers are that sadiq khanis are the whispers are that sadiq khan is under big, big pressure. So all eyes on that. Everything to play for. Its going to be very unpredictable. Yeah, but let us know what you think. Is sadiq under pressure . Do you want him back pressure . Do you want him back in office . I dont think many of you would, but i think theres probably some of you who dont mind him that much. And also other results from the local elections yesterday coming through as well. But before all that, heres your News Headlines with ray. Thanks, guys. 10 01. Our top stories. The Prime Minister faces another challenging day after losing hundreds of councillors in the local elections, with 102 of 107 councils
This weekend will be very mixed , this weekend will be very mixed, varying from place to place and from day to day. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up soon. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. Breakfast on. Gb news. On that, i have to say, on the harry story, its across a lot of the papers this morning, and i know there will be people saying, oh, here we go again. Saying, oh, here we go again. Harry coming back to the uk, looks like his wife wont be with him. But you know what. 7 if its a father and son relationship, if they can rebuild that a little bit, thats got to be a good thing, hasnt it. 7 i mean, away from all the hoo ha around it all. If they can do that on a personal level, thats got to be good. And theres clearly still a lot of love there, especially from the king towards harry. So i think if harry can come and see his, his father, i thought it was really lovely. After the kings, cancer d
Positives and areas where they have managed to hold control of councils, potentially some of the mayor raises my give them a bit of a Silver Lining but on the whole, the great picture is pretty bleak for the tories. Let me show you this. First of all, this is the vote share compared to 2021 when the seats were last contested. In 2021, Boris Johnson got a bit of around two bounce after the Vaccine Roller but look what happened since. The change in the last three years. That is the tory vote change, down 14 . That is pretty big. Its worth looking through some councils when the conservatives used to be in power but are not any more because of this. Have a look here at redditch. This is a Bellwether Seat and we said that all morning and an area with the parties think the result is pretty indicative of how the country is feeling. Look at that. The conservatives have lost 11 seats, labour won ten and it means this long line of blue down here is done. This is now a labour controlled council.
Have all the details later. On. That assisted dying story in many of the newspapers today. So if youve got a view on it, we want to hear from you today. This is how you get in touch. Esther rantzen. Dame Esther Rantzen saying no ones going to force a Health Care Professional to bump me off, but i dont want to bump me off, but i dont want to be forced to live longer than i want to. Your views. Get in touch, let us know and well debate that throughout the programme. Our top story though this morning the government has accused the eu of double standards following irelands pledge to send Asylum Seekers back to the uk. Well, tensions rose after ministers in era threatened to draft emergency laws amid concerns the rwanda plan could increase asylum numbers entering the republic. The republic. Well, lets speak to the immigration lawyer ivan sampson, who joins to us talk about this this morning. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining this morning. Good morning to you. Thanks forjoining us so e