I'm Carolyn Quinn. We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day. Now there is an awful

lot to unpack as Labour has been losing heavily to reform UK and what we used to think of as the party's heartlands.

With me today is Alice Demby, opinion and features editor at Cityam.

And Will Lloyd, Deputy Editor of the New Statement.

Welcome to you both.

Lovely to see you here in the studio.

And you're both looking quite fresh-faced.

So, yeah, I was not.

You haven't been up all night, no, no, no, no.

Nevertheless, you've been listening to our results as they've been coming through

and listening to Keir Star as well,

because he says he's not going to walk away after those English council results,

showing reform, picking up seats in Labour's former Heartland.

The Prime Minister was speaking to reporters earlier,

and this was his message.

Let me be clear, these are really tough results. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was elected

to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away. Well, as we speak, it's mid-morning.

We've got many more results to come. It's not looking great. We can already conclude that this has been bad for Labour Compu.

Yes, absolutely. It's catastrophic for the Labour Party.

You know, this talk of Heartlands, these places in the Northwest, probably the Northeast as well soon, central England. Are they heartlands? You know, are these,

are these Labour heartlands or are they actually sort of Brexit heartlands? And are they Brexit

heartlands since 2016 that voted for Boris Johnson in 2019 and have now swung towards reform? Is that

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