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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Stevens

Tories now forecast to lose just 250 seats as Rishi Sunak avoids local elections wipeout

The Tories are predicted to lose just 250 council seats on Thursday as Rishi Sunak is set to escape an election drubbing.

Senior party figures had feared up to 1,000 of their councillors would be ousted in the PM’s first big electoral test.

But latest forecasts show the party’s losses could be limited to just a couple of hundred seats.

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