{"id":572467,"date":"2026-05-08T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:22:18","slug":"heavy-labour-losses-as-farage-makes-gains-live-updates-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572467\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Labour losses as Farage makes gains \u2014 live updates \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is already facing substantial losses as results from Britain\u2019s biggest set of elections since 2024 pour in.<\/p>\n

With counting still underway, Starmer\u2019s Labour has shed more than 200 councillors in England and ceded control of seven councils, with Nigel Farage\u2019s populist-right Reform UK the main beneficiary. Reform has added more than 300 councillors to its total and picked up control of one council \u2014 with the left-wing Greens and centrist Liberal Democrats also making modest gains. So far it\u2019s been a rough night for the center-right Conservatives, who have shed scores of councillors.<\/p>\n

In play are more than 5,000 English councilors in 136 councils, including all 32 London boroughs; six mayors in England; all 129 members of the Scottish Parliament; plus all 96 members of an expanded Welsh parliament, the Senedd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Follow our live blog for results, reaction and analysis through the day. And here\u2019s a full run-through of the stakes and key timings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Keir Starmer is already facing substantial losses as results from Britain\u2019s biggest set of elections since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}