MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid Starmer faces prospect of challenge as ex-minister says she will try to trigger race if no one in cabinet comes forward The Guardian - UK · May 9
Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party after 100 years Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapse The Guardian - UK · May 9
Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls The Guardian - UK · May 9
Trump-Xi Beijing Summit To Focus On Iran Conflict, Trade Tensions US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing later next week, but the focus of the summit is likely to remain on the Iran war. International Business Times · May 9
British leader Keir Starmer under pressure after heavy election losses Labour party loses more than 1,400 English council seats and crashes out in Welsh and Scottish parliament votes The Guardian - UK · May 9
The SNP may have won again but Scottish politics has been upended Public frustration gave the SNP a muted victory, while Labour tied with Reform for second and the Greens claimed a ‘seismic’ result The Guardian - UK · May 9
Most Labour members think Starmer cannot revive party fortunes, poll finds Exclusive: Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is preferred choice of new leader for 42% of those surveyed The Guardian - UK · May 9
John Swinney urges Starmer to show Scotland ‘greater respect’ after SNP victory Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, concedes his party was comprehensively beaten in election as count puts his party on 17 seats, a tie with Reform The Guardian - UK · May 9
Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers local election losses Labour lost hundreds of councillors and eight local authorities across England in early results. Evening Standard · May 8
Friday briefing: What the local election results tell us so far In today’s newsletter: gains for Reform and losses for Labour in early results, but experts say overall picture underlines ‘the fracturing of British politics’ The Guardian - UK · May 8
Labour MP calls for Starmer to step down after wife loses council seat to Reform IN FULL The Independent UK · May 8
Partial results show losses for Starmer’s Labour and wins for Reform UK in local elections Partial results from local elections in England showed large losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party and gains for the hard-right party Reform U.K. The votes are being widely seen as an unofficial referendum on Starmer, elected less than two years ago The Independent UK · May 8
Potholes – that’s what voters care about. But you wouldn’t know it from the local elections coverage As I bounced dangerously around a Sussex road, I was reminded of the parlous state of our highways – and the serious neglect of local issues, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Guardian - UK · May 8
Andy Burnham withdraws from speech as Labour leadership speculation grows IN FULL The Independent UK · May 8
Evening Standard · May 8 Farage says Reform on course for general election win after early local gains Labour was haemorrhaging council seats in local elections across England in bleak results for Sir Keir Starmer.
The Independent UK · May 8 Farage hails ‘historic shift in British politics’ as Reform makes sweeping local election gains The Reform leader compared the substantial gains to clearing Becher’s Brook, a famously difficult jump in the Grand National
Evening Standard · May 8 Local elections 2026: All the London results so far Some 1,817 London council seats are up for grabs with mayoral races in Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets
Evening Standard · May 8 Local elections 2026: What are the results in my area? Use our live interactive map to find out the result of the election in your area
The Guardian - UK · May 8 Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch and Tamworth
Evening Standard · May 8 Labour appears to haemorrhage seats as first local election results roll in Initial results painted a bleak picture for the Prime Minister, with Labour losing councillors in its traditional northern heartlands.
The Independent UK · May 8 Local elections results in full: Live map for every seat across England, Wales and Scotland Live election results for England, Scotland and Wales in one place
Evening Standard · May 7 Votes being counted in crucial elections for Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership Polling guru Lord Robert Hayward has suggested Labour could lose some 1,850 councillors in England.
The Independent UK · May 7 How Starmer, Farage, Badenoch and Polanksi reacted after local election voting closed IN FULL
The Independent UK · May 7 Sir John Curtice delivers blunt verdict on Starmer as Labour braces for election losses Sir Keir Starmer has “never been as popular” as his Labour Party, elections expert Professor Sir John Curtice said as he analyzed the prime minister’s role in his party’s poor polling ahead of the local elections.
The Independent UK · May 7 David Lammy refuses to say whether Starmer will stay as Prime Minister after local elections IN FULL