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Labour haemorrhages council seats to Reform as Starmer faces pressure to quit

May 8, 2026

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party lost hundreds of council seats to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in English local elections on Friday, with the party wiped out in some of its safest strongholds and pressure mounting on the prime minister over his future. Labour lost control of Tameside in Greater Manchester for the first time in nearly […]

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