will find much disappointment in labour this morning, they are happy with the results, there briefing this morning is that they feel that this morning is that they feel that this puts them on course to do well at the next general election. i think again we have to take some of that with a pinch of salt and remember that we haven t got the full picture get and we will expect later in the day to get some more indications from polling experts about how some of these results would map onto a general election picture. i think one thing that is significant is, the conservatives were briefing before these local elections that a bad result for them would be to lose more than 1000 seats, that they could lose as many as 1000 seats. we know that a bit of that was expectation management, the practice of briefing that you will lose more seats in the hope that if you then lose fewer than that, you can sell it as a good result. some polling experts have been saying overnight that given the picture we
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