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VOTE counting is underway in many parts of England after today’s local elections, with Rishi Sunak bracing himself for humbling results amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis.
The Tory Prime Minister predicted a “hard night” for his party before the polls closed at 10pm, but optimistically predicted that the Conservatives are now moving away from “box-set drama” politics.
The vote, which will decide 8,000 councillors in 230 local authorities as well as four local mayors, are likely to be the final set of polls before the next general election, due in the spring or autumn of 2024.
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
CHARLEY ALLAN reports from Clacton on Farage’s fears his by-election stunt has backfired
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
