labour takes control of five flagship councils in london that have been held by the conservatives for decades, but it failed to make similar gains elsewhere in the local elections. in the last few minutes, the convenience store chain mccoll s has collapsed into administration. we will get the latest with our business correspondent. coming up on the bbc news channel, west ham manager david moyes apologises after being sent off during his side s europa league semifinal defeat to eintracht frankfurt for kicking the ball at a ball boy. the united nations says a third operation is under way to try to rescue civilians from the ukrainian city of mariupol. a convoy is due in the beseiged south eastern port city today to get hundreds of people out of the azovstal steelworks, which is under attack by russian forces. there are thought to be 200 civilians, including at least 20 children, still in underground bunkers at the plant.
sir eddie lister. a tory flagship borough since 1978, wandsworth is now run by labour. councillors, whey hey! you re my mum s councillor, yeah? no pressure! 0n hand for the celebrations, london s mayor himself a former wandsworth councillor. wandsworth s new leader wasn t even born when his party last ran the borough. i think they felt the conservative council had grown stale and complacent. it just didn t really have values that fitted with modern london. we need to, in fact, make sure that all those people who feel that we haven t fully supported them or looked - after their interests - we need to find out how well we can do it. we also need to actually hold the labour party to account . on the promises they have made. losing a borough they ve run for the last 44 years should serve as a warning to the party in london, says one conservative watcher. if they lose their flagship councils, then they risk losing even more seats and their seat count
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
another area of cloud and rain that at six a tough night for the tories. big losses for the conservatives at council elections in england, wales and scotland. labour win the tory flagship councils of wandsworth, barnet and westminster after decades in conservative hands but struggle outside london. we ve had a tough night in some parts of the country, but on the other hand in other parts of the country you ll still see conservatives going forward and making quite remarkable gains. believe you me, this is a big turning point for us. from the depths of 2019, that general election, back on track. a big night for the liberal