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Local elections 2024

  • Map graphic for data analysis piece

    Big Tory losses but no Labour landslide. What might happen at Westminster? – a visual analysis

    Tory representation has imploded, but Labour’s gains have not been seismic. These charts show what this may signal for a general election
  • Labour party leader Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, leave a polling station in London after voting in local elections on 2 May 2024.

    Labour could lose a wide range of voters over Gaza, not just Muslim ones

    Letters: Readers say the party has alienated many people beyond Muslim and leftwing voters, and may struggle to get them back
  • Mike Tapp, Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer

    Labour gains in leave areas may cut swing needed for overall majority

    Analysis reveals voters switching from the Tories in pro-Brexit seats could make a Starmer election victory easier to achieve
  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

    Guardian political correspondent Kiran Stacey tells Helen Pidd what heavy local election losses mean for the PM, and looks at what calculation Keir Starmer made in taking in rightwing Tory Natalie Elphicke
  • Martin Kettle

    If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

    Martin Kettle
    Many Muslim voters turned against Labour in the local elections, and the continuing conflict only heightens the risk of alienating others, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • A sign saying POLLING STATION attached to a white lorry with Dudley metropolitan borough council on its door outside a polling station with houses in background

    Viral hate campaign targeted Dudley teacher after fake racist video shared

    Doorbell video of woman canvassing for Labour in West Midlands shared by independent candidate
  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking at a podium at the Association of British Insurers in the City of London.

    Labour must win back voters’ trust over Gaza, say Rachel Reeves and Sadiq Khan

  • Justine Greening

    Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us

    Justine Greening
  • Andy Burnham

    I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties

    Andy Burnham
  • Polly Toynbee

    Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy

    Polly Toynbee
  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

  • A voter at the polling station at Datchet Hall in Datchet, Berkshire.

    Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections

  • Rishi Sunak, wearing blue disposable gloves, stirs a large cooking pot in a kitchen

    General election result is not a foregone conclusion, Sunak says

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer look at each other with grins on their faces as they lead a procession of politicians at Westminster

    Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

  • There is a way for Starmer’s Labour to fix the big rift with Muslim voters – if it has the will

    Miqdaad Versi
  • Unloved but unchallenged, Sunak appears safe – because only a fool would want his job now

    Henry Hill
  • First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Local election catastrophe for the Conservatives

  • A pro-Palestine march in Westminster on 27 April

    Labour ‘working to get support back’ after losing votes over Gaza stance

    Analysis shows almost 18% drop in party’s vote in areas of England where more than a fifth are Muslim
  • Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local elections disaster – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local elections disaster – cartoon

    The Tories suffered big losses both in ‘red wall’ areas and more traditionally Conservative places
  • Keir Starmer (right) celebrates with the newly elected mayor of West Midlands, Richard Parker, in Birmingham.

    Labour can be proud of its local election results, but there’s still a way to go

    Letters: Bernie Evans bemoans the party’s centre-right policies and lack of radicalism to really inspire voters. Plus letters from Lyn Dade, Keith Flett, Jimmy McCluskey and Dr Mark Wilcox
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