Tories Suffer Major Losses as Labour and Lib Dems Win Key Battlegrounds in Local Elections

Labour leader Keir Starmer holds five month old Hazel (no surname given) as he joins party members in Chatham, Kent, where Labour has taken overall control of Medway Council for the first time since 1998 on May 5, 2023. Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

The Conservative Party suffered a series of losses after voters across England headed to the ballot box for May local elections, with Labour as well as the Liberal Democrats, and the Green Party seizing control of several councils.

Counting is underway in the 230 local authorities in England that held elections on Thursday, with many votes still to come in on Friday.