Some critics internally, as well as from outside, say the third bit has not sufficiently got going, and that Sir Keir's personal ratings are not setting the opinion polls alight.īut the biggest test before the election, at the real ballot box, shows the party recovering significantly across England. Sir Keir's team has long said that his plan to put Labour in contention for government had three stages - changing the party, highlighting the government's failure and then setting out how Labour would change Britain. It's their best result locally since 1997 and makes Labour the largest party in local government for the first time in 20 years, after Tory losses of more than 1,000 councillors.Īccording to Sky News' projection of how the shares of the vote in the locals would translate into seats at a general election, this would see Labour as the largest party but falling 28 seats short of a majority.īut the projection also makes it very hard to see how, on these results, the Conservatives could win.

His party won 22 councils - the leaders of which he will meet today too - and more than 500 council seats.

Sir Keir Starmer will tell the shadow cabinet today that there is 'still more work to be done' after the party celebrated its local election results.

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