Ukip support collapses as Tories
Ukip have lost a significant number of seats overnight local election results have shown (Picture: PA)The Labour Party has so far failed to gain control of a single council targeted by Momentum and canada goose uk site its Unseat campaign.
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RAF veteran and ‘World’s oldest rebel’ Harry Leslie Smith dies aged 95Of the 10 council areas where Unseat events were held, five resulted in victory for the Conservatives, two in no overall control, and three are yet to be announced.
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The only point of light for the Eurosceptic party in a local election bloodbath was canada goose womens outlet Derby, where it held one seat and gained another, unseating the Labour leader canada goose premium outlet of the council and bringing its total representation to three.
Mother cried blood after cold turned out to be horrific infectionElsewhere, there was a merciless cull of Ukip councillors, with Conservatives apparently picking up significant numbers of their former supporters in areas such as Basildon.
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With the referendum won and the UK on course for Brexit, it appeared that many Ukip voters may have considered the party’s job done.
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Former deputy chair Suzanne Evans said: ‘I have to say, three councillors in Derby, one of them actually unseating the leader of the Labour council, it canada goose outlet toronto might not be Ukip’s night but my goodness me when we do win we do it with style and we really put the cat among the pigeons.’
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Rotherham sex gang victim calls for law change after rapist is invited into son’s lifeThe Tories retained control of Wandsworth Council, last won by Labour in 1974, newmediadoc.com after winning more than half the seats, as well as Westminster City Council.
The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Labour group conceded the party would not take overall control of the local council, which under the Tories faced a furious backlash over its handling of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Robert Atkinson said: ‘The Tories buy canada goose uk will still be in control but by a much smaller margin than last time. They’ve been humbled, finally.’
Labour London mayor Sadiq Khan said last year that there was ‘no corner’ of the city where canada goose outlet sale the party could not win and insisted they could challenge the Tories ‘even in their crown jewels of Wandsworth and Barnet’.
canadian goose jacket Shadow chancellor John McDonnell raised the prospect last month of the party securing a ‘significant victory’in Hillingdon but the Conservatives retained control. canadian goose jacket
Candidates and their associates watch count volunteers sort ballot papers at Lindley Hall, Westminster, London (Picture: PA)Carrie Symonds, the Conservative Party’s director of communications, said Labour ‘threw the kitchen sink’ at Wandsworth, adding it was ‘brilliant news’ they had failed.
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Baby born with legs back to front and no buttocksMr Khan, speaking at the Wandsworth count, told the Press Association: ‘What I’d be disappointed by was if we didn’t make progress across London in terms of the numbers of councillors.’
Caption: Count volunteers sort ballot papers at Kensington Town Hall where Labour had hoped to make gains after the Grenfell Tower disaster (Picture: PA)After 14 years of Tory rule at Trafford Council it went to no overall control.
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee of backbenchers, told BBC News: ‘It’s deeply disappointing for me and for a lot of Trafford residents.’
Yet more misery for rail passengers with ‘significant disruption’ in run up to ChristmasLabour lost Nuneaton and Bedworth council, an area that often indicates the colour of the government at general elections, as well as Derby, with both falling to no overall control.
The Conservatives gained Basildon and Peterborough, which had both been under no overall control.
The Liberal Democrats gained control of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, a heavily Remain voting area, from the Conservatives.
Conservative former party chairman Grant Shapps, who has been highly critical of Prime Minister Theresa May’s leadership, said No 10 and Tory headquarters had ‘got their act together’.
He told BBC News: ‘Four years ago I was looking at a Conservative vote of 30% in the polls and today I expect Theresa May will be looking at significantly more than canada goose outlet that, I imagine in the upper 30s, maybe near 40.’
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