Labour celebrated significant early local election gains ... picked up 115 councillor seats, according to the most recent BBC numbers, while the Conservatives have lost 272.

At the county council, the Tories had a net loss ... seat, giving it a total of 27 out of the authority's 42 seats, which were all up for election due to boundary changes. The Conservatives did ...

The Conservatives have endured one of their worst local election results in a decade in the last big test of public opinion before a general election. The Tories lost nearly half the seats they ...

The Liberal Democrats won the seats they needed to keep control of North Norfolk The Conservatives have lost ... election Conservative group leader Christopher Cushing said the Tories had made ...

That we had lost that trust and that reputation for delivery. Many excellent Conservative MPs, and in the recent past brilliant Conservative councillors, lost their seats. The question now is how ...

All of the results from the mayoral contests and all but one of the results from local ... these elections, fewer than the 522 council seats won by the Liberal Democrats. The Tories lost control ...

Early results suggested the Conservatives could lose as many as 1,000 council seats ... progress in “key election battlegrounds”. What did the papers say? “The Tories will fear this is ...

Nigel Farage has written to over 1,350 Conservative councillors encouraging them to defect from the Tories to Reform UK ahead of the local elections ... to lose far more seats than Labour.