About last night s results, in places like wimbledon and cheadle and elsewhere, we were winning seats where we need to win seats at the next general election. so it was a great night for those councillors. the greens too have made gains. also overnight, in bristol, voters chose to scrap their mayor in a referendum. this is only a partial picture. almost half of england s councils have yet to start counting and will do so later today. so too will all of the councils in wales and scotland. and counting will start for all 90 seats for the northern ireland assembly, with polls suggesting sinn fein could become the largest party for the first time. helen catt, bbc news. let s get some more detailed analysis with lewis goodall, who is at the touch screen. lewis, we will be talking to shadow home secretary yvette cooper shortly, she is in
But it is the scale of turning point since then. all right, but it is the scale of the turning point since then. all right, but it is the scale of the turning i but it is the scale of the turning point, yvette cooper, because labour wants to be the next party of government. wejust wants to be the next party of government. we just heard from my colleague lewis goodall, saying keir starmer would recover so many of those seats lost across the heartlands, but the results do not show very much indication of that. in fact, i am just going to show our view is the key wards analysis in england, the change since 2018, when these seats were last contested, 470 out of 738 declared, labour down by 0.4%. you have gone slightly backwards. the conservatives have gone further backwards, the lib dems and the greens up, but labour has gone back. how does that show you are on your way back to potential government? are on your way back to potential covernment? , ., government? because many of those a
General election i will vote for borisjohnson, the conservatives, and then all of that treading water starts to look dicey. and then all of that treading water starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank ou starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank you very starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank you very much starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank you very much for starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank you very much for taking - starts to look dicey. lewis goodall, thank you very much for taking us i thank you very much for taking us through all that. we can speak now to labour s shadow home secretary, yvette cooper, who joins us from wakefield. good morning to you. you have done well in london, taking those key conservative councils, flagship councils of wandsworth and westminster and barnet, not done so well outside of london and in the north of england. in fact, you have lost hi, the council of hull, to the liberal democrats. what do you make of the results overa
Up in people s homes. but for the thousands of ukrainian civilians who need medical care, the journey has been even more traumatic. my colleague lewis goodall is in the city of lublin and was given exclusive access to one of the biggest hospitals that has been taking in ukrainian patients. three weeks ago, 44 million people lived in ukraine. now, 1.7 million of those people, mainly women and children, live in poland. most are exhausted, some are sick, some need medical care, and some were pregnant. he is a boy. he s four days old, and he s not alone. at a hospital in the city of lublin, 60 miles from the border, babies have born in a country not their own, away from fathers they ve never met, that they might never meet. translation: they bombed all of our i relatives in kyiv.