Labour faces the “drastic” loss of more than 75 per cent of the council seats it is defending across England next week, according to a devastating new assessment from a leading polling expert.
Conservative peer Robert Hayward predicts that Sir Keir Starmer’s party will lose 1,850 seats in the local elections, while Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party will be the biggest winners, gaining 1,550 seats, and the Greens will pick up 500.