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
We ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city. 0ur Political Correspondent leila nathoo gave us this update from city hall following the announcement. If you look all the way through the campaign, the Opinion Polls were always in sadiq khans favour and evenif always in sadiq khans favour and even if you remember that the results didnt actually get started counting until this morning, so any speculation was really wildly off the mark so counting started this morning but as soon as the first results came in, it was very clear that sadiq khan was looking in a pretty good place because he had already proved in the first two boroughs that he was capable of attracting more votes to the labour party than he did last time. As the day went on, and more constituencies declared, it was pretty obvious sadiq khan had actually increased his support and won a very comfortable victory. It would have been a hailjab set i think if susan hall had got anywhere near cl
Thursday's local elections have been pencilled in as a day of peril for Rishi Sunak for so long, it's hard to remember when Tory turbulence - and maybe even a leadership challenge - was not expected after 2 May.
Ahead of next week s local elections, Sam Coates writes that, despite the Conservatives being resigned to significant losses, it is Labour who could have the tougher time.