The Labour and Conservative parties are digesting the results of England’s local and Mayoral elections after Reform UK made major gains at their expense. With counting complete, Nigel Farage’s party took control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP by taking Runcorn and Helsby.Sir Keir Starmer conceded people were not yet feeling the benefits of a Labour government, while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to make her party a “credible” alternative once again.Farage hailed the results as “the end of two-party politics” and “the death of the Conservative party”.Writing in The Times, Sir Keir said the lesson learned from the elections was not that the country needed “ideological zealotry”.”It’s that now is the time to crank up the pace on giving people the country they are crying out for,” he said. But some within Labour have called for the prime minister to change direction, saying the decision to cut winter fuel payments to all but the poorest pensioners put off voters.Labour MP Rachael Maskell called on the government to ditch the cuts, telling BBC Breakfast: “We have got that mandate, I believe, as a party to look at how we can better redistribute wealth, as opposed to taking out of the pockets of the poorest.”With the results all in, Badenoch apologised to the defeated Conservative councillors, saying: “I am going to make sure that we get ourselves back to the place where we are seen as the credible alternative to Labour.”Writing in The Telegraph, she said: “I’m deeply sorry to see so …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnThe Labour and Conservative parties are digesting the results of England’s local and Mayoral elections after Reform UK made major gains at their expense. With counting complete, Nigel Farage’s party took control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP by taking Runcorn and Helsby.Sir Keir Starmer conceded people were not yet feeling the benefits of a Labour government, while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to make her party a “credible” alternative once again.Farage hailed the results as “the end of two-party politics” and “the death of the Conservative party”.Writing in The Times, Sir Keir said the lesson learned from the elections was not that the country needed “ideological zealotry”.”It’s that now is the time to crank up the pace on giving people the country they are crying out for,” he said. But some within Labour have called for the prime minister to change direction, saying the decision to cut winter fuel payments to all but the poorest pensioners put off voters.Labour MP Rachael Maskell called on the government to ditch the cuts, telling BBC Breakfast: “We have got that mandate, I believe, as a party to look at how we can better redistribute wealth, as opposed to taking out of the pockets of the poorest.”With the results all in, Badenoch apologised to the defeated Conservative councillors, saying: “I am going to make sure that we get ourselves back to the place where we are seen as the credible alternative to Labour.”Writing in The Telegraph, she said: “I’m deeply sorry to see so …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
