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Wednesday briefing: Where Starmer stands after another precarious day in Parliament

impact of an electoral wipeout in the upcoming elections might change things, says Kiran. Historical losses are forecast in Scotland, Wales and London for Labour to the Greens, Reform and nationalist parties

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

party held the line against 14 years of Conservative government in Westminster, protecting public services from the impact of austerity, Brexit and the Covid pandemic. Welsh Labour partly had an incumbency issue

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

impact on Sir Keir’s role? Given S Times comment re 1500 losses and ‘nervous breakdown’ this is bad news for Sir Keir and Labour. > > **Reform** will be biggest gainer from both Labour and Conservatives

Green party threat to Labour in London laid bare in Starmer’s own back yard

party that looks like it will avoid the fate of the mainstream, holding comfortable leads in their south-west London strongholds and challenging Labour in Merton. While Labour’s dominance means there is further

Zack Polanski calls two-party politics dead after mayoral and council wins

London boroughs, which have long been a stronghold for the party, the Labour leader of Camden council, the borough that takes in Keir Starmer’s Holborn and St Pancras constituency, lost his seat

Major test for Labour as polls open in English, Scottish and Welsh elections

London and Hastings in Sussex – won’t declare until Saturday afternoon. Results in Scotland and Wales should become clear by about 4pm on Friday, with more local election results announced in the late afternoon

Henry Zeffman: PM puts himself back in the game for now

Party rules. The Conservative system for displacing a leader, with which we all became so familiar in recent years, operates on the basis of whether MPs do or do not retain confidence in their boss

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

impact of austerity, Brexit and the Covid pandemic. But after 27 years of devolution, Wales has fallen behind the other UK nations in several key metrics. About 20% of Welsh NHS patients have to wait

Thursday briefing: ​Why the US president is losing support from crucial allies

Labour MP called on Starmer to quit. 2. ***Middle East*** | [Iranian forces seized two ships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/iranian-forces-ships-seized-strait-of-hormuz-us-peace-talks) in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades

UK voters need to hear battle over bills and climate crisis are linked, green experts say

elections. The party [takes an anti-climate stance](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/15/labour-will-drop-unaffordable-net-zero-policies-predicts-reforms-deputy-leader), and has vowed to encourage fracking, impose punitive taxes on renewable energy generation, and [block solar and windfarms](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/04/reform-uk-government-truss-renewable-energy-policy). The Conservatives have

'Such a let-down' - healthcare students on NHS recruitment squeeze in Wales

London and Birmingham, claiming [the UK is facing a maternity staffing crisis](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g6p5ge617o), yet newly-trained midwives cannot find jobs. It is a similar picture for some north of the border, with

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

London, cannot be ruled out either. A [poll circulated among Labour MPs in March](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/labour-urged-listen-progressive-voters-or-face-political-earthquake-london) showed the Tories regaining Barnet from Labour. The other key English areas up for election