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.
You say on the telly, we might not have any mps left if rishi sunak doesnt Change Course. And if youre paul scully, whos another former minister who was also on our programme, you say, its all looking pretty terrible and the party needs to take a breath, show some humility and stick to the centre. So its not a very pretty set of realities, but there are differing realities, but not a very pretty set of realities for rishi sunak today. So i offerfrom radio 4 land today Gavin Barwell, who was theresa mays adviser. Now, of course, she saw a chance to go for an election and was then humbled by it, was then replaced as Prime Minister. He said the conservatives are on course for a defeat, possibly a huge one. But he said keir starmer is not loved, hasnt necessarily got the blair power. Henry, whats your verdict now that all the results are in, bar the couple of police and Crime Commissioners . Its a terrible set of results for the Conservative Party. I think thats really, really clear. Mark
It depends how you count it. It depends who you are. If youre mark harper, who is a loyal ally of rishi sunak, you say, its all to play for. Or if you are Suella Braverman, former home secretary, you say on the telly, we might not have any mps left if rishi sunak doesnt change course. And if youre paul scully, whos another former minister who was also on our programme, you say, its all looking pretty terrible and the party needs to take a breath, show some humility and stick to the centre. So its not a very pretty set of realities, but there are differing realities, but not a very pretty set of realities for rishi sunak today. So i offerfrom radio 4 land today Gavin Barwell, who was theresa mays adviser. Now, of course, she saw a chance to go for an election and was then humbled by it, was then replaced as Prime Minister. He said the conservatives are on course for a defeat, possibly a huge one. But he said keir starmer is not loved, hasnt necessarily got the blair power. Henry, whats
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. Lets speak to our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan, who is in birmingham. That is where the West Midlands mayoral result was announced yesterday. She has been there getting reaction. It was already a difficult few days after thursdays local elections for the Conservative Party but i think many pin hopes on the West Midlands mayoral contest that declared in birmingham late last night, about nine oclock. That is because it was a close race, but the conservatives hoped their incumbent mayor andy street would hold on for another term but in the end, it was the Labour Candidate who is now the mayor, Richard Parker, who won by a squeak, by abou
Here it is. A fascinatingly close result. Richard parkerfor labour, 225,000, andy street for the conservatives, 224,000. The majority, despite there being more than half a million votes, wasjust 1508, thats reflected in the percentages. Votes, wasjust 1,508, thats reflected in the percentages. 37. 8 for labour, 37. 5 for the conservatives. One interesting thing to point out is independents 12 , that was a candidate critical of labours policy on gaza. Still didnt stop them winning, just. Have a look at how the rates have changed. The conservative vote went right down. Labours vote went down as well but the fact the conservative vote went down by so much was what got labour over the line. There is the swing. Conservative to labour, 4. 6 . That was the big result from last night but there was another really important result yesterday in the capital, london. Here it is. Sadiq khan comfortably beating the conservative susan hall, 275,000 votes in it this time, a lot more. This is what the s