Local election results 2024 live: First local election results in: Early Labour gains as Tories brace for ‘difficult’ night

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1. Cons gwtting destroyed. Greens and Indie with massive gains. Britain is ready for a chnage.

2. ‘We didn’t get completely wiped out which, of course, makes this a terrible night for Labour’

3. Holy shit, the Tories are getting absolutely destroyed. Which tbh i don’t think anyone is surprised by.

4. Reform are essentially splitting the conservative vote right now. That’s very bad for the Tories.

   Not only are they deeply unpopular but those that do still vote Conservative, a lot of them are moving their vote to Reform. At a GE the Tories could be pushed to 3rd place or even 4th if this holds true nationally.

   Probably a good chance that either a leadership challenge is called or a GE. I can’t see how the Conservatives would let Sunak keep going when they have performed so badly. The only sliver of reprieve that Sunak might get is if Susan Hall wins the London Mayoral election. If she doesn’t then Sunak’s position is untenable.

5. Fingers crossed either Mayor Freeport Brown Envelope or Mayor “I’m not really a Tory” Andy hold on.

   Otherwise we might be robbed of a GE campaign featuring tetchy Rishi and his helicopter.

6. So what do they do now? More self destruction of our country for the next part to try and fix?