Panicking Tory MPs are weighing up an appalling set of local election results to decide whether they need to ditch Rishi sunak as party leader

The results don’t look good for the Conservatives or Rishi sunak as pressure mounts on the PM to call general election

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to political lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Full results likely to point to drubbing for Rishi sunak’s Conservatives at the general election

Result indicates sizeable Westminster majority, while sunak has failed to recover ground since taking over from Liz Truss

The policy has always been a sordid theatre of cruelty, and it is unravelling in ways that were entirely predictable, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi sunak ahead of a U.K. general election in which the main opposition Labour Party appears increasingly ...

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to politcial lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Despite finishing narrowly ahead of Reform UK in Blackpool South, the Conservatives were beaten Nigel Farage’s party in 16 of the 25 seats up for grabs on Sunderland City Council

Rishi sunak is now polling worse than Liz Truss with Tories on just 18 per cent as rebel MPs say plot to oust the PM ‘likely’ if they lose more than 500 seats in the local election count – or one of two bellwether mayors

Editorial: Selecting a fourth Conservative prime minister in two years would make this country even more of a laughing stock

Conservatives braced for heavy losses that could destabilise Rishi sunak’s premiership

Exclusive: decision to grant licences condemned by critics as a stunt that shows Tories are ‘playing politics with climate’

Penny Mordaunt has dispelled rumours of a leadership bid and pledged to stand by prime minister Rishi sunak following local elections. During Business Questions in the House of Commons on Thursday 2 May, Ms Mordaunt also said she thinks something wil ...

UK’s growth will be least in G7 by 2025, OECD expects, as low business investment and multiple pressures bear down

There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argument

Current Mayor of London and Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan arrived with his wife Saadiya Khan and their dog to cast his vote at the local elections on Thursday (2 May). Mr Khan arrived early at the polling station at St Alban’s Church in south L ...

Survey comes days after Rishi sunak spoke of the ‘greatest comeback in political history’

Conservative London Mayor candidate Susan Hall arrived early to cast her vote in the local elections on Thursday (2 May). Ms Hall. dressed in a purple jacket, arrived at Hatch End Lawn Tennis Club to cast her vote earlier today. Voters head to the po ...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrived at a polling station to cast their votes in the local and London Mayoral elections today. Voters head to the polls on Thursday (2 May) in a series of local elections seen as the final test ...