Labor has already been seen in Downing Street after its success in the English local elections

Works have already been seen with the keys to 10 Downing Street in hand, after the good results achieved in yesterday’s partial local elections in England. The main opposition formation not only won the majority of votes, but 35% versus 26% of conservativesaccording to BBC projections, he also managed to squeeze out the tories as the party with the greatest territorial power in England.

At the end of this Friday afternoon, the vote count gave Labor 68 of the 230 councils in contention, 21 more than before. Likewise, a formation headed by Keir Starmer departed the estate 1,926 councilors out of 2,583i.e. 25% more.

The conservatives, for their part, saw how the bad forecasts predicted by the polls came true. So is the formation of the Government lost 45 councilors and more than 1000 councilorsthereby ceasing to hold the title of the party with the most local offices in England, which it had held for more than two decades.

The The Liberal Democrats and other minority parties such as the Greens also benefited from the punishment he suffered the tories. In the case of the latter, for example, they managed, for the first time in their history, to win an absolute majority in the council, that of Mid Suffolk (East London).

Rebellion is not ruled out either

As soon as the first results began to be known, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not hesitate to describe them as “disappointing”. The press does not exclude the possibility of a rebellion against Prime Minister. “This is Rishi’s fault, because he helped overthrow Boris [Johnson] I’m Liz [Truss]said David Campbell, a Johnson supporter.

But Sunak’s followers hope that the ceremonial length, on the occasion of the coronation of Carlos III, will calm things down and help to coolly analyze the results. Analysts such as Michael Thrasher believe that while the results are good for Labour, they are not so good for assume that he will get an absolute majority in the 2024 general election.