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UK Conservatives lose ‘awful’ local elections

Rishi Sunak Photo Credit: WPA Pool Rishi Sunak Photo Credit: WPA Pool
Rishi Sunak Photo Credit: WPA Pool Rishi Sunak Photo Credit: WPA Pool

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UK Conservatives lose ‘awful’ local elections. After a year of political scandals, rising inflation, and stalled economic development, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives suffered in Friday’s municipal elections.

The English council elections will be the greatest and potentially penultimate test of voter opinion before next year’s general election, where ruling parties struggle.

Local government bodies, which provide public services like rubbish collections and schools, have counted approximately a fifth of their 8,000 council seats.

The Conservatives lost 218 seats, the Labour Party won 118, and the Liberal Democrats gained 57 in the early results, which did not reduce the government’s majority.

Labour said these local election results put it on pace to win the next general election with an eight-point advantage over the Conservatives.

Sunak’s party lost crucial target seats to Labor in north and southern England, while the Liberal Democrats advanced in affluent southern England.

The prime minister told reporters that early results suggested voters wanted his ruling party to deliver on their goals, but it was too early to draw definitive conclusions.

According to Britain’s most famous pollster, John Curtice, the Conservatives were in “considerable electoral trouble” and may lose 1,000 seats.

The parties’ status won’t be obvious until most councils declare their results on Friday.

After months of economic turmoil and strikes, Sunak became prime minister in October and sought to restore Conservative credibility.

After Boris Johnson was ousted partly over parties held in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns and Liz Truss was ousted after a tax cut gamble that shattered Britain’s financial stability, the Conservatives changed prime ministers three times in a year.

Labor was making gains in areas that voted to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum, which it will need to win at the next general election.

Labour took control of Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, and Medway councils early Friday morning, three significant battlegrounds for the next general election.

Sunak lost eight councils.

Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer called it a “terrible” Conservative night.

In 2019, the Conservatives lost almost 1,300 local election seats, which was expected to reduce their losses in these elections.

Former Conservative minister and House of Lords member Gavin Barwell said the results reflected the political and economic instability of the last year.

Sunak is “improving the situation, but he started miles behind and he’s got a hell of a job to try and close the gap,” he told BBC.


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