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Local elections highlight the need for 'positive answers'
A dog outside a polling station in St. Annes, Lancashire, as voters go to the polls in 23 council areas across England, and vote in six mayoral contests across devolved regions, May 1, 2025
“At local level, it’s different."
LEFT campaigners said that today’s local election results will show how the Labour leadership has “killed hope” by continuing Tory austerity.
As polling booths opened on the warmest start to May on record, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s party faces a twin challenge of council and mayoral elections across England and a by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.
Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury won the seat with 53 per cent of the vote before quitting after being convicted of punching a constituent.
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