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local elections Kemi Badenoch has claimed that the Conservatives are “coming back” after winning back Westminster and Wandsworth councils from Labour in London, despite her party suffering significant losses throughout England in Thursday’s elections
elections. It lost about 500 councillors in England and ceded control of three local authorities to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – losing to the rightwing upstarts in England, Wales and Scotland. Why then is Kemi
local people the chance to vote in a referendum to leave London altogether and, likely, to re-join Essex where they'll feel more comfortable. The London elections are not only a battle between Labour
Conservative or coalition governments in the past, but now there was nobody else left to blame. Voters in Sunderland acknowledged regeneration has been happening in the last two years but felt that didn't forgive
Essex where the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has her constituency and which the Conservatives held for 25 years. - Plaid Cymru [became the largest party in Wales](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/08/plaid-cymru-biggest-party-wales-senedd-labour-reform), beating Reform into second place, after
local election results announced in the late afternoon and early evening. Counting for mayoral elections will only begin on Friday, with Hackney and Newham expected to declare at 1pm, followed by Watford at 2pm, Lewisham
Essex county council from the Conservatives – the party leader Kemi Badenoch’s local authority – gaining 52 councillors. Suffolk and Newcastle-under-Lyme followed, also claimed from the Conservatives, then Sunderland, from Labour. In the Scottish
losses are a reflection of growing unpopularity with Starmer's tenure, which has been beset by a weak economy, [backlash](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5707201) over his appointment of an ambassador with ties to Jeffrey Epstein