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English local elections yesterday with results coming in now, the key points:

-Nothing short of absolute humiliation for the Tories, who have currently lost a majority of their races. Currently looking like they will go from a narrow first place in terms of councillors to third behind Labour and the Lib Dems.

-Labour have hit their marks with significant gains, their biggest win being the Blackpool South by-election for the Parliamentary seat, where they got one of the biggest swings in history. They are on course for a landslide at the general election as the polls suggest. However, there are a few things to caution them, as they have lost support in some areas including majority control of one council due to Gaza and other social issues. The party has acknowledged this too.

-Lib Dems have done fine but the big contests for them in the south are yet to declare their results. Greens have done very, very well and on track for their best ever local elections result, definitely gaining from dissatisfaction with Labour in some urban areas but also everybody else. The hard right Reform Party (Farages party) have done alright in voteshare for some areas to the Tories cost but no actual wins, nothing to say from that yet but you know the right-wing media will crow about it endlessly.

-The one bright spot, using the term very generously, for the Tories is that they have narrowly won the Teeside mayoral election. Of course, this was a guy who got 73% of the vote last time and enjoys massive cross-party support; the swing from this result and council elections still suggest Labour is on course to win every seat in the area at the general election. Its a bit like how Vermont has a Republican governor to put it in US terms, so the Tories claiming this as a win is hilarious.

TL;DR: Tories demolished, everybody else gaining, some small setbacks for Labour on areas theyve swung rightwards on. Something to be happy with for everybody whos not a Tory!