These elections were a valuable measure of the battle of the two main parties who seek to govern us.
The prime minister acted out his usual jollity at a photo op in a primary school in his constituency on Friday morning. Yet the reality is a deeply uncomfortable set of results that has got steadily worse throughout the day. It represents a rejection of the Conservatives in many parts of the country they see as home.
In Scotland and Wales, Conservatives are in retreat. Yet right now it doesn't seem like the kind of wipe-out that will explode Number 10. And after 12 years in government, losses like this in a mid term are not without precedent. There's an electoral metaphor you hear privately so often from Labour MPs. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his team have stopped the rot, and improved the party's fortunes after such a low ebb under its former leader Jeremy Corbyn.
It's almost as if the two main political tribes are locked together in a mutually uncomfortable status quo.
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