Starmer’s time is up — but not just yet – POLITICO

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has won what looks less like a reprieve than a postponement of the inevitable.

After Thursday’s local elections, his Labour Party’s position is grim by almost any historical standard. It lost roughly 1,500 council seats in England, failed to dislodge the Scottish National Party in Scotland and, most symbolically of all, surrendered Wales to Plaid Cymru for the first time in more than a century.

Meanwhile, far-right politician Nigel Farage’s Reform UK continued its advance across Labour’s former heartlands, while the Greens tightened their grip on younger progressive voters.