Starmer kommenterar Labourpartiets ”svaga resultat” i lokalvalet | NTD NYHETER

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is insisting he will carry on as Prime Minister, this despite his Labour Party suffering disastrous local election losses. Let me be clear, these are really tough results. I'm not going to sugar coat it. And we have lost brilliant Labour representatives, people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party and our movement. And the voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved. I was elected to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos. But I think overall what's happened is a truly historic shift in British politics. We've been so used to thinking about politics in terms of left and right, and yet what reform are able to do is to win in areas that have always been conservative, but equally we're proving in a big way we can win in areas that Labour have dominated, frankly, since the end of World War One. Nigel Farage's reform UK made gains across the country, with hundreds of Labour councillors being voted out, the results heaping pressure on the Prime Minister to step down. Farage vowed the best is yet to come for his party. Starmer's party faces further heavy losses as vote counting continues throughout today. In Wales, Labour is expected to lose the national vote for the first time in more than a century. While the elections focus on local and regional races, opponents viewed the vote as a referendum on Starmer's leadership. The Prime Minister faces criticism over economic stagnation, strained public services, alleged two-tier policing, rising costs of living and free speech concerns. Some Parliament members are urging Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure.