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Hello, this is Vicky Young with The Week in Westminster.

Across Wales, Scotland and England, Labour politicians are coming to terms,

with a collapse in support that has cost them more than 1,400 council seats,

seen them ousted from power for the first time in the Welsh

Senate and reduced to 17 seats in the Scottish Parliament.

Plied Cymory, the SMP and Reform UK are the big winners.

There's a lot to talk about with my guests, James Heal, Deputy Political Editor of the Spectator magazine,

Lucy Fisher, the Whitehall editor of the Financial Times,

and Henry Zephman, the BBC's chief political correspondent, is with us too.

Now, how to sum up such momentous results in a few words?

It's quite tricky, but I'm going to ask you to do it. James.

At the end of the heartlands, a bad night for Labour and the Conservatives.

Historic night in Wales,

with Welsh Labour's hagemony coming to an end

and Reform UK enjoying success everywhere.

Lucy.

Yes, death knell for the two-party system

in England, bring it into line with the rest of the UK.

Starmus, seriously wounded,

but trying to stagger on, reform on the march.

Henry.

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