General election if rishi sunak doesnt change course. The tories are reeling after one of their worst performances in a local election in decades. Labour has been celebrating a key win in the West Midlands mayoral race after its candidate, richard parker, narrowly beat the conservatives Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary, mark harper, said while the results were disappointing, the General Election was still all to play for. Speaking to the bbc, Suella Braverman insisted her party faced electoral oblivion without a change in direction. Our political corresponsdent, damian grammaticas, reports. Parker, richard labour and co operative party, 225,590. Its a result that will send a shudder through conservatives. Street, andrew the Conservative Party candidate, 224,082.
Plan had not yet come to fruition. Our first report is from our Political Correspondent, hannah miller. Applause. Labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. Theres no spinning these results, theres no disguising the fact that these have been terrible Election Results for the conservatives and they suggest that we are heading to a labour government. Her prescription for the pm. He needs to actually lower taxes in a way that people will feel, not tweaking round the edges. If he is serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on illegal migration, he needs to take us out of the European Convention on human rights. In defeat, the now former conservative mayor of the West Midlands, andy street, said
the mutiny had failed. but what next for president putin? and what would the russian authorities tell the russian people about what had happened? vladimir putin said nothing today about the mutiny. he was shown discussing engineers. it s not clear when this was recorded. but yevgeny prigozhin, head of the wagner mercenaries, who hasn t been seen in public since saturday, did talk today about his rebellion. in an audio message, he claimed his fighters hadn t wanted to overthrow russia s government. it had been a protest, he said, a way of avoiding the destruction of the wagner group. russian officials have denounced mr prigozhin as a traitor. but prime minister mikhail mishustin also blamed the west for what had happened.
he claimed his fighters hadn t wanted to overthrow russia s government. it had been a protest, he said, a way of avoiding the destruction of the wagner group. russian officials have denounced mr prigozhin as a traitor, but prime minister mikhail mishustin also blamed the west what had happened. he said russia had faced a challenge to its stability. we need to rally around the president. state tv was on message. the presenter claims that russians had united to support vladimir putin and denounce treachery. 0ur enemies were in ecstasy during the mutiny, she said. the traitor yevgeny prigozhin did a good job for western propaganda. but at the newspaper kiosk, i discovered a