No one should call this one too early. You wouldnt call a premier League Football match after about 30 minutes. And theres a lot more people whove got their view, too. Except you are at The End Of You are at the end of a government term. Thats fair. But people make a choice at the election, a very clear choice. Whos going to walk through the door of number ten the following morning. In dorset, the conservatives lost control of the council to the liberal democrats, who are second in terms of the number of seats won overall. But in some places, Labourface A Challenge from the greens. This is bristol, where they became the Biggest Party on the council, picking up every single seat in what will be one of their top target constituencies. These are huge steps forward for the green party. Theres now nine councils across the country where were the largest party. Large numbers of councils where greens are part of the ruling administration, often working with other parties, which were very happy
For labour, its the man who saw woke. Its a wonder he sleeps. Benjamin butterworth in the blue corner, trying to find some gloom among the wreckage. Its. Ill be. Rishi can still win this amankona. And in the spoilt ballot. I couldnt give a fig about any of them. Its the one and only ben. Leo trying to bnng and only ben. Leo trying to bring a bit of sanity to proceedings and making her debut on the show, i finally got another durham dynamo in the form of fleur meston. And of course we want to know your views as well. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gbnews. Com yoursay vie. And dont forget all your questions. They need to come in thick and fast for our ask the five segment, where you can ask us anything. But before we start tearing each other apart, its your saturday night news with sam francis. Sam francis. Darren. Thank you and very good evening to you. Its just gone 6 00 and well start with the latest developments in the local elections and to london, where labours
They use this Phrase Country first, party second. Keir starmers argument is he has to behave as he sees a british Prime Minister should and hes taking the stance that he would as Prime Minister. But there is no doubt there is evidence to suggest that that has been difficult for labour in some places, particularly those with a significant muslim population. Theres a prominent independent candidate, as you say, here in this contest, who has had a particular view on the conflict and the uk governments outlook on the conflict. And its a point of difference with the labour party. Now the question is, speaking to labour folk here, to what extent are they former labour voters going in the direction of an independent or people who might be motivated to vote for the independents who would have not backed labour otherwise . We shall see. The other factor here that is acknowledged by labour is that the local authority, the council here in birmingham, not the whole region by a long chalk, but the
But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. Welcome to you, and weve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yes. Seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. On hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage where an. Are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. From israels Point Of View its priority is trying to e
Re elected. There rishi sunak says that result is evidence that people will stick with the conservatives come the general election. Election. Keir starmer came here twice, Rachel Reeves came here three times, but even they couldnt dislodge ben and the fantastic conservative team, right. And they also threw a lot of mud. It needs to be said in this election because they were angry, angry that ben has delivered more for this region in seven years than labour Party Managed in 30 years. Well, lets take a quick look at those latest council results from across england as counting continues tonight. If youre watching on tv, you can see here the number of councillors confirmed so far fewer than seven councils left to declare out of a total of 107. Some will follow into tomorrow , including follow into tomorrow, including the West Midlands. And the result for londons mayor in other news, the family of murdered schoolboy alfie lewis have thanked him for making them smile every day. He was stabbe