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candidate. Monday's address could prove to be the most important speech of Sir Keir's premiership so far, after the disastrous results at this week's elections left his leadership position more vulnerable than
candidates. Labour could lose affluent boroughs such as Wandsworth and Westminster back to the [Conservatives](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives), and Merton in the increasingly Liberal Democrat-dominated south-west. Reform has been campaigning heavily in London
Scottish and Welsh parliaments and English councils, senior party figures have told the Guardian that activists were being repeatedly told that the prime minister was the problem, rather than the party. “They don’t hate
candidates with similar views are standing for the party - raising concerns about the direction of travel. > > **5. Reform would roll back workplace protections** > > Plans to scrap the Employment Rights Act would put at risk protections
Scottish National party, which spent £75,000, and the Greens, who spent £74,000 over the period.  A Reform Facebook ad targeting the SNP. Illustration
election” and that they had every intention of banning horse racing. There has, meanwhile, been the inevitable exposure of controversial or offensive views allegedly held by Green candidates. The Mail on Sunday ran a spread
candidates can win on relatively small shares of the vote, as support for their opponents splits. The result is that even local contests can take on national significance. ## Starmer’s ‘referendum’ The vote comes
candidate to replace Starmer by the time of the Labour Party’s next annual conference in September. Many in the party are hungry for a change following a series of missteps, culminating in a disastrous
Scottish Westminster byelection for almost 60 years. (See [2.39am](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jun/18/makerfield-byelection-keir-starmer-andy-burnham-robert-kenyon-labour-leadership-reform-aberdeen-arbroath-uk-politics-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6a349cc08f083b97ede8b7c5#block-6a349cc08f083b97ede8b7c5).) Badenoch (or whoever manages her social media account) has also reposted a tweet from **James Cleverly**, the shadow housing secretary, celebrating
elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and to many English local authorities. So you won't be remotely surprised when I tell you that it has left Labour folk from the cabinet down gloomy
candidate for Mayor of London in far-off 2028. Another followed in November. There have been two other by-elections, one of them producing a Tory hold, the other a Labour hold. The net outcome
Scottish National party (SNP) in Holyrood and Sinn Féin in Stormont – would mean that whoever occupies No 10 Downing Street in the near future will have a [constitutional fight](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/07/nationalist-wins-uk-celtic-nations-may-elections) on their hands