All right, Alexander, let's talk about the local elections that took place in England, in the

UK, in various places in England.

And the indications are, were that the, the Tories, the conservatives got hammered.

But did it really go that well for Labor and Kirstehmmer?

What's your take on the elections that took place? Well, the first thing to say is anybody who has

been following our programs and our discussions about the situation, a mood in Britain would not be surprised by the

outcome of these elections. First of all, I think this is the worst performance in local elections.

These are regional elections for local authorities and local councils. This is the worst result I think that the

Conservative Party has ever had, at least in its modern history. Polling people who studied

this, who crunch the figures, think that its vote fell to around 25%.

And much of this happened in English areas,

which are traditionally conservative voting.

So conservatives are doing appallingly, but Labor is not doing well.

That is the real story.

Now, there are blips.

So in London, which is very much a Labour city, and I think partly because the conservative

candidate, in my opinion, ran a bad campaign.

I'm not going to discuss that in detail now.

But Sadiq Khan was re-elected and he did quite well in London.

And there was a by-election in a place called Blackpool where this is a parliamentary by-election, which happened at the same time, where Labour also won the by-election with a big swing from the Conservatives.

But if you look at the results as a whole across England and Wales, where these votes, these elections elections are happening labor got around 34

percent now that isn't very good in the year before the 1997 landslide which Blair

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