Britain's local and regional elections see Labour and Conservative party loses
發佈日期: 2026-05-09 21:54
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In Britain's local and regional elections, Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted he will not resign after bruising results saw his governing Labour Party suffer big losses.
Based on partial results in the U.K's local and regional elections, Labour and the Conservatives lost major ground to Reform UK and potentially the Greens.
But British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insists he will carry on as prime minister despite his Labour Party losses. "Let me be clear, these are really tough results. I am not going to sugarcoat it. We have lost brilliant Labour representatives people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party and our movement. The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved. I was elected to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos."
Starmer has already faced speculation about his position with the Times reporting Energy Secretary and former leader Ed Milliband had urged the prime minister to set out a timetable for his departure.
But Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy urged the Labour Party not to play "pass the parcel" with the leadership in response to the election results.
Reform UK, led by former Conservative Party politician Nigel Farage, won hundreds of local council seats in working-class areas in England's north, such as Sunderland, that were solid Labour turf for decades.
Reform, which ran on an anti-establishment and anti-immigration message, did particularly well in areas that backed the U.K. to leave the European Union in the historic Brexit vote in 2016.
A political analyst Prof. Tony Travers in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics said there has been a fragmentation of Britain's two-party system into a five-or-six-party system.
"There's been a big shift of votes away from Labour and the Conservatives the traditional big parties in British politics, towards Reform. So it's a fragmentation of Britain's two-party system into, if we include the Liberal Democrats and then in Scotland and Wales, the nationalists, a five-or-six-party system."
