What does the loss of Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet councils mean for Boris Johnson's leadership?
Westminster City, the local council responsible for Downing Street, is now run by Labour
Tory candidates departed the count ashen-faced, declining to comment leaving their outgoing leader to front up.Ravi Govindia, elected in 1978, said it was too soon for a meaningful analysis - but there was no getting away from the irritation among voters at recent political distractions. The Conservatives now felled by what looks at this stage to be a toxic mix of economic woes and distaste for partygate and the Covid lockdown antics at the heart of its own SW1 postcode - layered over existing unhappiness about Brexit.
With Labour also winning Barnet for the first time, at least partially due to the effect of neutralising claims of anti-Semitism, they now control a record 24 of the capital's councils.
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