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UK’s Labour set for heavy losses in elections as Reform makes early gains

losses in elections as Reform makes early gains United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is bracing for [heavy defeats in local elections](/news/2026/5/7/uk-voters-head-to-the-polls-in-local-elections), with Reform UK poised to make gains across

Local election campaigning enters final week as forecaster warns Labour could lose 1,850 English seats –UK politics live

Labour could lose 1,850 English seats –UK politics live Good morning. We are now into the final week of campaigning for the Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd and English local elections. Keir Starmer had been

Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on as prime minister despite [early results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/local-elections-2026-may-full-results-england-scotland-wales) in local elections that show his party suffering heavy losses, many at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Reform

Senior UK ministers deride Rachel Reeves’s reported plan of year-long rent freeze

Keir Starmer during Wednesday’s PMQs. Photograph: House of Commons/AFP/Getty Images Downing Street said afterwards: “[The prime minister has] full confidence in the chancellor.” Asked to repeat Starmer’s previous guarantee that she would remain

Digested week: King bites his tongue as a president indulges his fantasies | John Crace

elected Green MP for Gorton and Denton, was getting shot at from all sides. Her crime? To say that some MPs smelt of booze and that she was uneasy about the alcohol culture inside

Labour expected to lose Senedd after century of winning elections in Wales

loss in Wales would have political significance of historic proportions. A former Welsh government minister told BBC Wales that if the results were "as bad as predicted" then UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer should

No 10 considered giving Doyle ambassador role, sacked official says

election campaign came at a time when he was maintaining his innocence. Sir Olly was sacked last week after it emerged his department had given Lord Mandelson security clearance, despite concerns being raised during

UK PM Starmer admits Mandelson mistake, rejects resignation calls

Keir Starmer has admitted he was wrong to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington, but rejected mounting calls to resign. Starmer told the UK Parliament on Monday that, while the appointment was a mistake

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

response to the results among senior MPs and the unions, with some warning him to change course or risk electoral oblivion. Louise Haigh, a former cabinet minister and co-chair of the powerful Tribune group

Tuesday briefing: How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong

Keir Starmer will call for a [whole-of-society response](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/04/starmer-call-society-response-rising-antisemitism) to rising antisemitism on Tuesday, saying that it is not enough simply to condemn the scourge, but people “must show it” through

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

Keir Starmer’s leadership. Barring a drastic change in fortunes, Labour’s vote-share could fall to historic lows across elections for councils in England and devolved parliaments in Wales and [Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland)