Here Gary explains why the projections of Labour’s national vote share from the local elections are lower than the general election opinion polls suggest. It is a bit nonsensical to talk about Labour being on course to fall short of a majority because these projections are based…

Tories would probably have done better in the polls if they weren’t such a bunch of utter bastards.

Adam Bienkov I've played this game long enough to know that it's a mugs game to make predictions - but worth remembering that in 2021 the exact same rumour circulated about Shaun Bailey defying the pollsters -

You’d think that the Reform party was a big political force judging by the amount of airtime the BBC is giving its leader Richard Tice … but they haven’t won a single council seat in these elections and they only have one MP because they poached a racist cabbage from the Tories!

If ever there was proof of why tactical voting is needed 👇🏻

64 of 107 Councils declared. Still 0 Reform candidates elected. In terms of money spent and candidates fielded, is this the worst performance ever by a political party? But the BBC will continue to pump them.

How can anyone be this delusional 🤷🏼‍♀️

Bottom line: No-one on here really has a clue about London yet

Apart from to say that if Hall wins it'd be one of the biggest polling upsets in British political history

The Women's Equality Party currently have more councillors than Reform

🚨 NEW: The Tories have been completely wiped out in Castle Point as they lose all 8 seats

🚨 BREAKING: Labour declares VICTORY in the East Midlands mayoral election

The route for conservatives to win appears to be for the candidate to make clear that they are not conservatives

Until after the election …
#LocalElections

That's a 16.7 pc swing to Labour. Need a 12.7 pc swing at GE for majority.

Lab: 'Swing puts Labour on track to win every single seat in the area in a GE... If Sunak doesn’t take this result as a major wake up call he is in denial'

Seats like Redcar, Hartlepool, Stockton West

Labour point out that if the 16.7% swing against Ben Houchen was repeated at a general election, they would win every single seat in the Tees Valley.

The Tories, now in 3rd place behind the Liberal Democrats!!! 😱 🧐

🚨 NEW: Number of council seats at 12:00 PM

🔴 LAB: 346 (+61)
🟠 LDEM: 126 (+20)
🔵 CON: 122 (-135)
⚪️ INDP: 65 (+39)
🟢 GRN: 28 (+15)

38/107 councils declared

🚨 NEW: The High Court rules Rishi Sunak's climate plan is unlawful for not doing enough to meet climate targets

Sunak must now redraft his emissions plan

BREAKING: The High Court rules Rishi Sunak's climate plan is unlawful, in major victory for green groups.

The campaigners argued that Grant Shapps signed off the government's climate plan to reach Net Zero without any evidence it could actually be achieved.

It's fine. They can just pass a law insisting we pretend the evidence exists.

If anyone's interested in the facts, when Labour came to power in 97, UK national debt was 38.2% of GDP. After ten years of improving living standards and public services, it fell to 34.7%.

By Dec 2019, before Covid, the Tories increased it to 84.8%. It is now 98.3%