{"id":64711,"date":"2025-05-01T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64711\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:14:10","slug":"how-to-watch-like-a-pro-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64711\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch like a pro \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 p.m.: Durham<\/strong>\u00a0is proper Labour heartland territory. Until 2021, the party had controlled the county for a century. After mopping up every seat here in the general election, this was seen as Labour\u2019s best chance of regaining control of a council. But Farage has been campaigning hard here personally and hopes to make real inroads. The Conservatives are likely to lose their slender majority in\u00a0<strong>Lancashire\u00a0<\/strong>in the coming hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.30 p.m.: Hull and East Yorkshire<\/strong>\u00a0is a new mayoralty where four parties are vying for the title \u2014 Lib Dems, Labour, Tories and Reform\u2019s Luke Campbell, who was ahead of the pack in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/politics\/articles\/52069-combined-authority-mayoral-elections-2025-where-does-voting-intention-stand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouGov\u2019s poll<\/a>. The 37-year-old Olympic boxing gold medalist could be one to watch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>Council candidates in Labour-held\u00a0<strong>Doncaster<\/strong>\u00a0will start to hear their fate before the really tricky times begin for the Tories.<strong>Buckinghamshire<\/strong>\u00a0is about as blue as it gets, so if that slips into no overall control then the grimmest of Tory predictions could come true. A slim silver lining for the Tories could come if former MP Paul Bristow takes the\u00a0<strong>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough<\/strong>\u00a0mayoralty from Labour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>The Lib Dems reckon on a good night they could take control of\u00a0<strong>Shropshire<\/strong>, but they\u2019ll also be looking for gains in\u00a0<strong>Gloucestershire\u00a0<\/strong>and to do well in\u00a0<strong>Oxfordshire<\/strong>. It\u2019s from this point that losses from numerous Tory-held councils could start picking up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>Reform will hope to do particularly well on\u00a0<strong>Lincolnshire<\/strong>\u00a0council \u2014 one of the most Brexit-backing counties, and home to the Commons seat of deputy leader Richard Tice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 p.m.: Cornwall<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Devon<\/strong>\u00a0are top places where the Lib Dems hope to make gains in what could be a golden hour for Ed Davey\u2019s gang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 p.m.: Kent<\/strong>\u00a0should be one of the final councils to declare. A loss of control in the once-true-blue Garden of England would be another humiliating result for Badenoch, considering the Tories\u2019 currently have 49 councillors more than the second-placed Lib Dems.<\/p>\n<p>This guide originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/london-playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO London Playbook.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 p.m.: Durham\u00a0is proper Labour heartland territory. 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