Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to remain on as prime minister after presiding over certainly one of Labour’s worst ever native election performances.
Despite Labour dropping management of 35 councils and greater than 1,300 seats in England, Sir Keir mentioned he’s "not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos" – though he did acknowledge that the outcomes had been "tough" for his occasion.
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage mentioned the outcomes marked a "truly historic shift in UK politics", predicting that the prime minister shall be "gone by midsummer" as Reform UK’s turquoise wave crashed over Labour’s heartlands.
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