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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Teesside celebrating with Lord Ben Houchen following his re-election as Tees Valley Mayor, May 3, 2024
RISHI SUNAK conceded today that the Tories may not win the next general election, but suggested Britain could be on course for a hung Parliament.
It came as party rebels warned the Prime Minister to change his political course after defeats in the local polls.
Mr Sunak is braced for a continued fallout after the weekend’s local election results, which saw his party lose the West Midlands mayoral race to Labour.
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal