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Local elections: Five biggest moments as Tories lose historic councils and hundreds of seats

Labour makes significant gains in London, with Keir Starmer calling the results a ‘turning point’

The Independent UK

Fresh calls for PM to quit as Tories lose hundreds of seats in local elections

Boris Johnson saw his party surrender control of Westminster, Barnet and Wandsworth councils in London. Tories also lost West Oxfordshire. Keir Starmer said the vote was a 'turning point' for Labour

Daily Mirror

‘They deserved a kicking’: Londoners in Conservative strongholds turn their backs on the Tories

The Tories have been dealt defeats in a string of their flagship local authorities in the capital. Rory Sullivan speaks to disilluioned voters

The Independent UK

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Keir Starmer may celebrate local election wins but he still needs a vision

Labour may justifiably congratulate itself on symbolic wins in these local elections: the true-blue London strongholds of Westminster and Wandsworth, and the home of so-called “Workington Man” (deemed the archetypal new working-class Tory voter) in Cumberland. Yet it must channel energy from these morale boosts into a pitch that will…

Evening Standard

How Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost their grip on London

Labour turfed out the Tories in former strongholds, while the Tories failed to make hoped-for inroads

The Guardian - UK

Labour triumphs in London but Starmer faces ‘beergate’ investigation

I don’t know how long any news cycle lasts these days, but Keir Starmer may have hoped to bask in the reflective glory of winning Barnet, Westminster and Wandsworth councils for more than a few hours.

Evening Standard

Boris Becker's girlfriend pays first visit to disgraced former world No.1 in prison

Boris Becker was handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence last week, and is currently incarcerated at HMP Wandsworth, where he was visited by his partner

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Evening Standard Comment: A disastrous night for the Tories shows you can’t take London for granted

There is no spin or expectation management that can hide the fact this was a disastrous night for the Tories in London. The party lost control not only of Barnet but also its flagship councils of Westminster and Wandsworth, which it had held for decades. Many of their candidates branded…

Evening Standard

Local election results in full: Every winner from England, Scotland and Wales polls

The biggest result of the night saw the Conservative Party lose Wandsworth and Westminster to Labour

Chronicle Live

Local elections results show it’s time for the Tories to have a separate London party

Overnight election results in London were very good for Labour, though rather less so in other parts of the country. Winning Wandsworth for the first time since 1978 was the beginning of the party’s success in the capital. Despite the Conservatives’ low council tax policy, eight seats switched to Labour.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson faces furious backlash as Tories lose Thatcher's 'favourite' council

BORIS Johnson is feeling the wrath of rank and file Conservatives after the party lost major London authorities and suffered setbacks across England.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson looks to be in trouble with these local election results

Analysis: When senior Tories warned they could lose Wandsworth and Westminster it sounded like expectations management. But lose them they did

The Guardian - UK

Local elections 2022: What's happened in UK so far as Tories suffer heavy losses in London

The Labour Party has swiped the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet from the Tories

Manchester Evening News

London elections 2022: Wandsworth Council goes to Labour for first time in 44 years

Labour celebrates in Wandsworth

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The Independent UK

Labour wins three flagship Conservative London boroughs

Wandsworth and Barnet borough councils, and Westminster City Council, all previously controlled by the Conservatives, are now in Labour hands.

The Independent UK

Labour marks historic victory in Westminster - a council held by the Tories since creation in 1964

Result came after another win in the Tory ‘crown jewel’ of Wandsworth

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson faces backlash from councillors after Tories lose key London boroughs

The loss of the totemic London authority is a blow to Boris Johnson

Wales Online

Tories lose Wandsworth as Boris Johnson is lambasted by his own party's councillors

Labour gain local election ground in London but it's a mixed picture for Sir Keir Starmer elsewhere

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The Independent UK

Tories suffer heavy losses in London as Johnson faces grassroots backlash

Boris Johnson’s party suffered losses to Labour in Wandsworth and Barnet, with defeat also expected in the local election in Westminster.

Al Jazeera

UK elections: Labour takes London district from Conservatives

Loss of Wandsworth for first time in 44 years adds to pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The Independent UK

Labour wins Tory flagship council of Wandsworth for the first time since 1978

‘This was the Tories’ jewel in the crown’

The Independent UK

Local elections 2022: key results

The Conservatives lost seats in all parts of Britain while Labour and the Lib Dems both made significant gains.

The Independent UK

Tories lose Wandsworth as Johnson faces backlash from own councillors

The loss of the totemic London authority is a blow to Boris Johnson.

The Independent UK

‘The man is a clown’: Voters give their verdict on polling day in key London boroughs

Rory Sullivan talks to voters in Wandsworth while Maryam Zakir-Hussein takes the polling day temperature in Barnet

The Guardian - UK

‘I have to choose between food and heat’: demand soars at food bank in Tory-held Wandsworth

As the cost of living crisis deepens, the queue of people in Earlsfield needing food and essentials grows

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