Tomorrow, voters go to the polls for the last set of local elections in this parliament. After five tumultuous years, Rishi Sunak and his party look set to suffer big losses – including up to half the 985 council seats which the Tories are trying to hold. Some 2,600 council seats are up for grabs across 107 local authorities in England, with much of the attention focused on areas containing key parliamentary marginals. Eleven councils are identified below as being particularly worth watching over the next few days, with results trickling in from Friday morning until Saturday afternoon.
Alongside the council elections are 11 mayoral elections in England, 37 police and crime commissioner elections in England and Wales plus the London Assembly elections too. Sunak’s hopes of avoiding a leadership challenge in Westminster could rest on how he performs in the West Midlands and Tees Valley contests, where two popular Tory incumbents face difficult re-election battles.
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