Local Election

• Il leader si mostra risoluto di fronte alle richieste di dimissioni di alcuni dei suoi parlamentari, ma ammette che «i risultati sono duri e non c'è modo di addolcirli» • Elezioni 2026 live: ultimi aggiornamenti • Risultati completi da Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles

Reform vince a mani basse nel nord-est, spingendo probabilmente il Labour all'opposizione a Hartlepool, con altre perdite per Starmer a Chorley, Wigan, Redditch e Tamworth Election 2026 live: ultimi aggiornamenti Risultati completi per Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles L'entità della sfida elettorale che attende il Labour è emersa durante la notte, mentre il partito ha subito una massiccia perdita di consiglieri nelle elezioni locali e Reform ha ottenuto guadagni significativi. Il partito di Keir Starmer ha affrontato le elezioni locali di giovedì con l'aspettativa di perdere fino a 1.850 consiglieri, con i vertici che hanno descritto la sfida come "difficile". Continua a leggere...

Dai parlamenti devoluti in Scozia e Galles ai consigli e alle sindacature in Inghilterra, scopri cosa è successo nella tua zona. I primi risultati sono previsti intorno a mezzanotte. Ultimi report e analisi. Continua a leggere...

Deputy leader plays down leadership talk and says party must focus on long-term challenges rather than personnelLabour’s deputy leader has warned there will be “no magic bullet” to solve Labour’s problems – or major challenges facing the country – as its MPs grapple with how to navigate the fallout out from the local elections.Lucy Powell told the Guardian she understood there was “huge anger and despondency” from Labour MPs in the aftermath of the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, but said the prime minister would not make a similar mistake again. Continue reading...

Robert Hayward predicts Reform will be big winner, taking seats from both Labour and the ConservativesGood morning. We are now into the final week of campaigning for the Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd and English local elections. Keir Starmer had been planning a big speech today, but he, and other political leaders, are today focusing on their response to the Golders Green stabbing and the antisemitism threat facing Britain’s Jewish community – described as a “national security emergency” by Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation. Here is our overnight story. And here is our live blog by Taz Ali.Taz will be covering most of the political reaction to that story, and so that won’t be something I will be covering here. (And because criminal proceedings are active, comments relating to the attack won’t be allowed below the line, I’m afraid.) Continue reading...

Labour calls on Nigel Farage to sack candidates and says his party’s checks ‘clearly not fit for purpose’Reform UK’s checks on candidates are “clearly not fit for purpose”, Labour has said after two more candidates in May’s local elections were accused of making offensive or potentially racist social media posts.Meanwhile, it emerged that Restore Britain, the party set up by the MP Rupert Lowe after he left Reform, appeared to have accepted a donation from someone who has called publicly on social media for “another Hitler” to come to power. Continue reading...

Some fear a fragmented field of hopefuls from Labour, the Conservatives, Greens, Reform and Independents could leave city ungovernablePaul Tilsley was 23 when he was first elected for the Liberal party in Birmingham’s 1968 council elections. At the time, the UK had an unpopular Labour government facing an economic crisis, tensions around immigration and US pressure to back military action abroad.Such a backdrop may seem familiar, but this May, the all-out local elections in Birmingham could not be more different. Tilsley, now a Lib Dem, faces a fragmented field with candidates from Labour, the Conservatives, Greens, Reform and Independents all competing for his seat and no party expected to win an overall majority at the council. Continue reading...