If you didn’t know there were elections coming this week, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer used Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday to underline the stakes with thousands of council seats in play ahead of a bigger electoral test to come.
Thursday’s local elections including the mayoralty of London, and a by-election in Blackpool South, are a key test of how far Labour have come under Sir Keir and how far the Conservatives have fallen since the omnishambles of Liz Truss’s tenure.
