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Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

elections closer - local tests in England, and national ballots in Wales and Scotland - votes another cabinet minister frets "will be a disaster". We've been travelling around Wales this week, and Scotland last week, talking

Starmer tells MPs to ‘fight together’ before critical day for his premiership

elections. The Guardian understands that Labour MPs will be whipped to vote against the Conservative motion to refer Starmer to the committee. Any rebellion is likely to be limited because most appear to accept that

Keir Starmer to face vote on Mandelson vetting scandal as key figures give evidence to MPs - UK politics live

local elections. On the Today programme this morning **Alex Burghart**, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, dismissed this claim, saying: “There aren’t any political games going on here.” He is lucky

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

local elections Photograph: ITV’s Peston And this is how Hayward explains it in his summary. > double quotation mark**England** all figures given are net losses and gains > > **Labour** will **lose 1850** seats > > The losses

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

Starmer on election night in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency in July 2024. His party is on course for its lowest ever vote share in London at Thursday’s local elections. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty

Andy Burnham to face Reform’s Robert Kenyon in crucial Makerfield byelection

election, 5,399 votes behind Labour’s Josh Simons, who announced last week he would give up his role so Burnham could launch his attempt to return to Westminster. Archived copies of Kenyon

In Britain, Brexit is debated again as Starmer’s grip on power slips

local council elections in May 2026 saw a shift, with Reform UK winning 49.8% of the area's vote compared to Labour's 24.3%. (Photo by Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images)](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/getty_6a0f3e9174-1779383953.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513&quality=80) Andy Burnham, mayor

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

voted Plaid, Reform, Green or importantly stayed at home," they said. "The Plaid message 'we're the only party to stop Reform' has really cut through. "But Reform have also cashed in big time

Cracks showing for Labour close to back yards of Starmer’s top team

local ward of Kentish Town. In Sunderland, the education secretary Bridget Phillipson’s patch, Reform won full control of the city council. In Wigan, the culture secretary Lisa Nandy’s constituency, Reform

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

local elections on Thursday of next week will be a more perilous moment for the prime minister than this week’s parliamentary scrutiny. “Labour MPs are very depressed. They have mostly decided that they

Labour claims Reform UK won’t protect women, as poll suggests Farage’s party heading for ‘seismic’ wins in May – UK politics live

impact of such views on young people. > > **10. Reform’s record on violence against women raises serious concerns** > > The party is considering bringing back former MP James McMurdock, who was jailed for assaulting his then

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

Starmer and the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) government have faced since the 2024 general election. As millions of people across Great Britain go to the polls on Thursday, party leaders are poised

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

local government expert at the London School of Economics, said that the Greens’ failure to make more of an imprint in London reflected the capital’s unique status in England, with results appearing favouring

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

votes now counted from Thursday’s series of elections, Labour lost more than 1,400 councillors across England, shedding support to [Reform UK](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party) and the Greens in traditional heartlands. In Wales

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

local elections. Bob, an engineering manager, summed up what several members felt. “I don’t know if it would be better off without him, because it’s like, at the moment things aren’t good

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions. For more than

Lucy Powell says Labour has ‘no magic bullet’ as MPs brace for heavy losses in local elections

local elections. [Lucy Powell](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/lucy-powell) told the Guardian she understood there was “huge anger and despondency” from Labour MPs in the aftermath of the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, but said the prime minister

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

voted heavily for Brexit in 2016. Last year the council’s leader, Dominic Twomey, [warned that Reform was gaining ground](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7ey7n978do) in London and that Labour should not “be complacent”. YouGov’s London

Down and then out in Paris and London? Why Starmer isn’t the only one with a popularity problem

local election results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/labour-disastrous-night-local-elections-keir-starmer-leadership) in the UK built on Keir Starmer’s longstanding reputational problem: only 11% of Britons believe he has been a good or great prime minister, and nearly 60% believe