LOCAL ELECTIONS LIVE: Boris looks safe as Tories blame 'mid-term blues' for election losses
Oliver Dowden said people have had enough of 'distraction from Westminster' when quizzed about voters' concerns during the local elections campaign.
'It's incumbent on the Government to look to see every further measure that we can take but what I would say is that we've already taken an unprecedented amount of action'.Results are due later today from most of the remaining councils in England along with every council in Scotland and Wales. In Wales, Labour is defending a slim majority in Cardiff and looking to take control of Blaenau Gwent from a group of independents, while Flintshire is a test of Tory popularity in an area in which they did well at the 2019 general election.
The DUP and Sinn Fein are vying for top spot, which comes with the entitlement to nominate the next first minister. A unionist party has always been the biggest in the Assembly, and previously the Stormont Parliament, since the formation of the state in 1921. Next was the SDLP with 12 seats, the Ulster Unionist Party with 10 seats, Alliance with eight seats, the Green Party with two seats while People Before Profit and the TUV had one MLA each.
Outgoing Tory leader of Carlisle City Council John Mallinson has blamed Boris Johnson for the party's losses.Mr Mallinson told BBC Radio 4 Today programme that the Prime Minister 'bears a lot of the responsibility' for 'very poor' results and said he seemed to be attracting 'a lot of unrest and ill-feeling'.
Boris Johnson's Conservatives have suffered losses across England, and lost the totemic London authority of Wandsworth, which has been blue since 1978. The Greens have also triumphantly claimed that their wins across England - which are so far more limited than the Lib Dems' - prove they are a credible 'alternative' to the establishment parties.
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