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Starmer claims local elections will be a verdict on Badenoch’s leadership
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, April 30, 2025
“At local level, it’s different."
SIR KEIR STARMER claimed that the local elections being held tomorrow will be a verdict on Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Tory Party.
Speaking in the Commons, the Prime Minister pretended that voters would not also be passing judgment on his government in the polls, which include four metro mayoralties, 23 local authorities and a parliamentary by-election in the Cheshire seat of Runcorn and Helsby.
“Tomorrow is the first opportunity the country has to pass their verdict on the leader of the opposition [since the general election],” Sir Keir told MPs.
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