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Conservatives and Labour Face Tough Fight in Local Elections Across England and Wales

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Several recent polls in the UK suggest that the two establishment parties, the Conservative and Labour parties, may experience significant losses in local elections. A survey by Reform UK, an anti-immigration party, predicts they will win hundreds of council seats for the first time. However, it is worth noting that polls have shown different results, and it is unclear how the results will reflect public sentiment on the incumbent parties.

  1. GB
    Keir Starmer
    Labour Party
    1. Let's be clear what a vote for his party means. It means a vote to charge for the NHS (National Health Service), it means a pro-Putin foreign policy, and a vote against workers' rights.
  2. GB
    Martin Baxter
    Electoral Calculus
    1. Reform voters are a curse on both of the big established parties.
  3. GB
    Tony Travers
    London School of Economics
    1. Their whole strategy is largely waiting for the implosion of Reform.
    2. Britain has arrived at a profoundly interesting moment, what may be the end of the long duopoly of a largely two-party political system.
    3. People are less and less trusting of liberal democracies and more and more willing to vote for eccentric populist parties.
  4. GB
    Tim Bale
    Queen Mary University of London
    1. The flip side is that they can sometimes cause party leaders embarrassment.
  5. GB
    David Jeffery
    University of Liverpool
    1. A Labour loss would be symbolic and it would give Labour MPs a reason to pressure the leadership to go more to the right.
  6. GB
    Rob Ford
    University of Manchester
    1. We will see losses from the Tories and Labour, but not equally.

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sources

  1. 1.France 24
  2. 2.The Washington Post
  3. 3.The Times of India
  4. 4.Agence France-Presse
  5. 5.Daily Telegraph

perspectives

  1. 1.Election
  2. 2.Inflation
  3. 3.British Politics
  4. 4.BREXIT
  5. 5.Immigration to the UK
  6. 6.UK under Keir Starmer
  7. 7.British Economy
  8. 8.Real estate

countries

  1. 1.FranceFR
  2. 2.United KingdomGB
  3. 3.HungaryHU
  4. 4.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Labour Party
  2. 2.Conservative Party
  3. 3.British Conservative Party
  4. 4.Reform UK
  5. 5.Green Party
  6. 6.Liberal Democractic Party
  7. 7.European Union
  8. 8.National Health ServiceGB
  9. 9.UK Independence Party
  10. 10.YouGov UKGB
  11. 11.Electoral Calculus
  12. 12.House of Commons

persons

  1. 1.Nigel FarageGB
  2. 2.Keir StarmerGB
  3. 3.Boris JohnsonGB
  4. 4.Kemi BadenochGB
  5. 5.Michael Thrasher
  6. 6.Tim BaleGB
  7. 7.Andrea Jenkyns
  8. 8.Ann Murray
  9. 9.David Cameron
  10. 10.David JefferyGB
  11. 11.Donald TrumpUS
  12. 12.Eddie Sweeney

technicals

  1. 1.Maastricht Treaty
  2. 2.World War II