Brexit is over. That’s the big story of English local elections that you might, understandably, have missed amidst the Coronation and yet another long weekend. That story is bad news for Rishi Sunak and the Tories, though it may also one day pose some challenges for Sir Keir Starmer too.
It’s stating the obvious to say that those local council results were bad for the Conservatives. They lost more than 1,000 councillors as Labour, Lib Dems and even the Greens captured places once represented by Tories.
