The Local Elections Autopsy
Carl and Dan discuss the cause of the upheaval in the local elections and how the Starminator is going to plough on regardless.
Local elections have been important - YouGov - X
Election results final - BBC
Projections for seats from average of pollsters - LeftieStats - X
Down from 2025 local election results, though - BBC
Sky projection Overall shares - Sky News - YouTube
Reform underperformed in London, too. Again, Tories did well here. - Owen Winter - X
Projected in Essex - Poll Check
Result slightly down, tories did better than expected - Essex County Council
Nigel Farage “we absolutely walked it” - Sky news - YouTube
Betrayed voters have left Labour for good - The Times
Farage thinks these people are now die-hard Reform voters - YouTube
Focus groups tell another story - Luke Tryl - X
Great Yarmouth First got more votes that Rupert did in 2024 - UK Parliament
Did better in the locals - Norfolk Elections
Graph - Rupert Lowe - X
Restore got fair coverage on ITV - Rupert Lowe - X
Tice rejects coalition with Tories - GB News - X
Farage says “highly undesirable” but doesn’t rule it out - GB News - X
How are things going in Labour? - YouGov - X
Ministers are like “man, I think the time is up” - PoliticsUK - X
81 people have called for his resignation but no candidate backed yet - The Independent
Jess Phillips resigned - PoliticsUK - X
Alex Davies-Jones resigned - PoliticsUK - X
Leaked messages from the Starmerbunker - Bree A Dail - X
100 MPs have signed a letter against a leadership election - Guido Fawkes - X
They're just going to do their jobs - Guido Fawkes - X
Replace ministerial aides - PoliticsUK - X
Meet apprentices - PoliticsUK - X
Will not resign - PoliticsUK - X
No leadership challenge triggered - Alex Armstrong - X
Streeting cucked apparently - Sam Coates - X
Starmer is just going to get on with governing apparently! - BBC
Starmer basically taking Labour on a death march - PoliticsUK - X
Potential seat for Andy Burnham - Daily Mail
36% of people for Burnham - YouGov - X
Reform won Gorton and Denton this time, why not last time? - ITV News
Greater Manchester vote share is highest - BNH Walker - X
Starmer mogged Wes Streeting in the cabinet meeting - Sam Coates - X
Starmer mogged Wes Streeting after the meeting - Anna Mikhailova - X
Streeting as PM results - LeftieStats - X
Gov favourability - YouGov - X
Streeting bottling it - Kevin Schofield - X
Starmer thinks he can win - The Times
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