The UK Labor Party took a big hit in last week's local elections. It was a brutal loss, with over 1,300 council seats gone. Nigel Farage’s Reform Party had a great night, securing over 1,400 local seats. There are many lessons to learn here, especially that the UK could be heading into a period of multi-party politics (via CBS News):
🚨 HOLY CRAP! UK PM Keir Starmer has LOST over 1,303 Council seats
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 9, 2026
His Labour Party has lost WALES for the first time in 100 years
Nigel Farage's Reform SURGED over +1,400 seats! 🤯
THE PEOPLE ARE FURIOUS!
Take your country back! 🇺🇸🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/8JIykhWKyz
The United Kingdom's governing Labour Party and the opposition Conservative Party, which together have dominated British politics and seated every prime minister for more than 100 years, both took a gut punch in a major round of local elections on Thursday.
For Labour leader and current Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the heavy losses on city councils across England, even with votes still being counted in Scotland and Wales, paint a bruising picture.
Starmer took office less than two years ago, after Labour won a landslide in the last national parliamentary elections. In Thursday's voting, the party lost more than half of its seats on local councils, fueling renewed calls for Starmer to resign as leader of both his party and the country.
The biggest winners of the night appeared to be Nigel Farage and his right-wing populist party Reform UK, which made significant gains across England.
But one thing is clear: Prime Minister Keir Starmer might have to go. Calls from within Labour have been growing for him to step down. Like Joe Biden, he refuses to grasp that the jig is up. Some are saying that this dismal electoral showing was unsurvivable for Starmer, whose approval ratings have been poor for months:
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"The Prime Minister is going, no Prime Minister can survive this... It's time to be real, he's going. No doubt about it."
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 11, 2026
Labour MP Jonathan Hinder describes Sir Keir Starmer's speech this morning speech as "tone deaf" and "at its worst, downright insulting".#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/8txRQkjQbT
🚨 BREAKING: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and 2 other senior Cabinet Ministers have told Keir Starmer to set out a resignation timeline
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 11, 2026
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🚨 NEW: 67 Labour MPs are now calling for Keir Starmer to resign
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 11, 2026
60 Labour MPs now publicly calling for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. — PoliticsUK pic.twitter.com/OFt5pQFBKV
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) May 11, 2026
CNN just DOG WALKED British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his “ATROCIOUS” approval numbers.
— Overton (@overton_news) February 19, 2026
They even admitted that President Trump looks like Abraham Lincoln in comparison.
CNN: “These numbers are absolutely ATROCIOUS!”
“I mean, you never see numbers like this in the… pic.twitter.com/dS5I9FmeCm
We’ll keep track, but this rebel faction is growing.
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