The Latest Breaking News from Wandsworth

‘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 · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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) · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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

Labour celebrates in Wandsworth

Evening Standard · May 6, 2022

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 · May 6, 2022

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

The Independent UK · May 6, 2022