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Was it bad?

Yeah, it was pretty awful.

If you're a conservative and thinking, do we have any chance of winning the next general election?

Yes, there were little glimpses of sunlight for conservatives in a few places.

But do they tell us anything about the coming general election

when surely the narrative after last night is that Labour seem well on course towards victory.

We're going to be taking you through these results and explaining how it can be that while

these elections, like all the elections we've had over the past few years, show us that Labor do

seem to be on course to form the next government, that there is a danger that the Tory party

not only lose but get wiped out, but at the same time it can be that there are just a few

little clouds on the horizon for the Labour Party for political troubles, not just for the general

election, but for the politics of the next parliament as well. Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents.

It's John, it's Lewis.

It's Emily.

And once upon a time, you would do the aftermath of a local council election,

Friday morning you'd know everything.

It is now Friday, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and we know some things,

and there are still a lot more to come tomorrow. What we do know is that Labour, if this is a benchmark

for how well they're going to do in a general election, have a lot of cause to feel satisfied,

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