British Local Elections, May 2024

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These elections are going to be brutal for the Conservatives. Sky News will be extremely fun to watch.

they dont have that much seats to begins with this time

Weren’t these seats last up in 2021 when they made gains?

Yes. Even if May 2nd turned out to be a decent night for the Tories (which it won’t), they’d still be going backwards (sometimes significantly) because their 2021 results were so good.

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And Liam Byrne was also a terrible candidate.

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I see no evidence that local Tories fear a wipeout in Gloucester. The local Labour Party is probably the most incompetent in the whole country (in a competitive area).

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any chance Labour can gain Sheffield?

Theoretically possible but rather unlikely given the number of councillors who left their group this year. Even if that hadn't been the case it would have been touch and go.