So far, Labour has lost 204 councilors, while Reform UK has gained 311, set for a win in the next General Elections.

With around one third of the local councils having reported results, it’s difficult to know what is more relevant: the unprecedented losses by the incumbent Labour party, or the astounding surge in votes for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Failing Keir Starmer had no alternative but to take responsibility for Labour’s catastrophic local election results.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he will not resign despite the “really tough” local election results

“It hurts, and it should hurt, and I take responsibility. Tough days like this don’t weaken my resolve to deliver the change that I promised. They strengthen my resolve”

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The Telegraph reported:

“[Starmer’s] party has already lost control of eight councils, in what is expected to be the worst set of results in the party’s history. The Prime Minister is facing calls to quit after Labour surrendered its majorities on councils in Westminster, Southampton, Exeter, Redditch, Wandsworth, Hartlepool, Tamworth and Tameside.

In his first remarks, Sir Keir said: ‘The results are tough, they are very tough, and there’s no sugarcoating it. We have lost brilliant Labour representatives across the country, these are people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party. And that hurts, and it should hurt, and I take responsibility’.”

While many Labour party members insist he must resign, Starmer has already announced that he will not surrender power. ‘It was a five-year term I was elected to do; I intend to see that through’.

Keir Starmer : “I’m not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos. We were elected to deal with these challenges, and that’s what we will do.”

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In the meantime, the celebrations are in order among Reform UK members, and leader Nigel Farage even joked that they would be ‘very sad’ if Starmer resigned: ‘He is our greatest asset.’

“Speaking outside Havering Town Hall, the Reform UK leader said: ‘I suspect when you see the full results in the Red Wall, there’ll be a rebellion. Personally, I’d be very sad to see the Prime Minister go. I would be very, very sad indeed, he’s the greatest asset we’ve got’.”

The English local election results are a “truly historic shift in British politics”, says Nigel Farage.

The Reform leader is speaking in Havering, a London borough that the party has won for the first time.

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Farage has called Reform’s success a ‘truly historic shift in British politics.’

“He said: ‘I am delighted to be here in the sunshine outside Havering Town Hall, which I can now say is under new management. And it’s significant. It’s our first win borough in London. I think overall, what’s happened is a truly historic shift in British politics. We’ve been so used to thinking about politics in terms of left and right, and yet what Reform is able to do is to win in areas that have always been conservative. It’s a big, big day not just for our party but for a complete reshaping of British politics in every way’.”

It’s been a very good morning. The best is yet to come.

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— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 8, 2026

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