Senior Tory Sir James Cleverly said it had been a \u201ctough night\u201d for his party but a \u201cdisastrous\u201d one for Labour.<\/p>\n
The shadow housing secretary told the Press Association it would take time for Kemi Badenoch to get her message across.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWell, as predicted. It\u2019s been a tough night for us, but we\u2019ve made some real gains, against expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just heard we\u2019ve taken control of Westminster Council. We held Fareham in Hampshire, Harlow in Essex, Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, and so we have got real pockets of good news in what we always knew was going to be a tough night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Labour have had a disastrous night, and we can see why, with the terrible situation they\u2019ve created at a national level.\u201d<\/p>\n
He acknowledged Reform UK \u201care doing well\u201d but insisted Nigel Farage \u201chas still got big questions to answer\u201d about a \u00a35 million gift from cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Tory Sir James Cleverly said it had been a \u201ctough night\u201d for his party but a \u201cdisastrous\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2796,153137,748,190151,527,263944,393,4884,14144,83240,263946,173480,16939,263943,263948,263945,48179,263947,177266,528,11518,10751,257,285,386,16,15,25379,263942],"class_list":{"0":"post-945571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-brent","9":"tag-brent-london-borough-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-city-of-westminster","12":"tag-conservative-party","13":"tag-ealing-local-elections","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-green-party","17":"tag-hammersmith-and-fulham","18":"tag-hammersmith-and-fulham-local-elections","19":"tag-hammersmith-and-fulham-london-borough-council","20":"tag-harrow","21":"tag-harrow-local-elections","22":"tag-harrow-london-borough-council","23":"tag-hounslow-local-elections","24":"tag-kensington-and-chelsea","25":"tag-kensington-and-chelsea-local-elections","26":"tag-kensington-and-chelsea-london-borough-council","27":"tag-labour-party","28":"tag-liberal-democrats","29":"tag-local-elections","30":"tag-london","31":"tag-politics","32":"tag-reform-uk","33":"tag-uk","34":"tag-united-kingdom","35":"tag-westminster-city-council","36":"tag-westminster-local-elections"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}