Labour won the newly created cumberland council in the north west, but it s not expecting big gains and it s had losses too. the liberal democrats, who ve had a strong night, took hull council from it. and what was really interesting 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. our deputy political editor,
Ina in a surprising upset, the conservatives lost westminster council to labour, as well as southampton and barnet in north london, where the labour leader went to mark the result. this is a massive turning point for the labour party, we are back on track for the general election, showing the hard change we have done in the last two years, what a difference it has made. others maintain things are not as bad as they could be for the tories. we have had some difficult results, you can see that in london. i would say, though, that we are mid term, and it is a mixed picture, cos you look elsewhere, whether that is in hartlepool or nuneaton or thurrock, we ve actually made gains. and if you take the whole picture of this, it doesn t demonstrate labour has the momentum to form the next government. labour won the newly created cumberland council in the north west, but it is not expecting big gains, and it has had losses too. the liberal democrats, who ve had a strong night, took hull council
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