Conservatives Make Gains Across the U.K.

“Labour is losing ground to the Conservatives in elections across England, in the first big test of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of the party,” the BBC reports.

The Telegraph: “The by-election results – announced in the early hours of Friday – are further evidence of Labour’s estrangement from its traditional heartlands, the ‘Red Wall’ seats that would have been unthinkable candidates for turning blue just a decade ago.”

The Guardian reports Starmer “conceded his party had lost the trust of working people across England” and called the local election results “bitterly disappointing.”