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Labour and Conservatives Face Pressure After Local Election Losses

5/7/2025

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Polling expert Sir John Curtice urges Labour leader Keir Starmer to clarify his party's message after disappointing local election results, where they lost ground to both left and right. Concurrently, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch grapples with mounting pressure from significant losses to Reform UK, as former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith labels calls for a leadership change as "deluded."

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Polling expert Sir John Curtice urges Labour leader Keir Starmer to clarify his party's message after disappointing local election results, where they lost ground to both left and right. Concurrently, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch grapples with mounting pressure from significant losses to Reform UK, as former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith labels calls for a leadership change as "deluded."