Labour’s performance in the local elections is going from bad to worse. The party has, for the first time in four decades, lost overall control of Glasgow Council. Not too long ago, the city’s council would have been a banker for Labour. Under Jeremy Corbyn, it’s a different picture.
Labour needed to win 43 seats on the council to keep control. But having stood only 43 candidates in this election, they needed every single one to come through. That hasn’t happened and the party’s performance in Glasgow is likely to be the nadir in a dismal local election campaign.
Labour’s pain isn’t the only story to come out of the results in Glasgow though. The SNP have increased the number of seats and could take overall control of the council. But the big story is the success enjoyed in the city by the Tories. The party has made two gains so far – one of which was in the ward of Shettleston.
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