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We're having fantastic results across the country.

Plymouth. What a night they've had in Plymouth.

And then Stoke.

Brilliant.

And up to Middlesbrough, all the places that we need to win, the battlegrounds, we are on course

for a Labour majority at the next general election.

No, he's not listing football teams.

It's the sound of a man, Kiyos Dama, who has scored the best Labour performance in a set of local elections since the party's expulsion from office in 2010. It's a performance that is genuinely solid and in some places, even impressive. They've taken back Bellwether councils like Swindon, Plymouth, Medway. They've won back Blackpool.

They've won East Staffordshire, places which tug so hard on labour's heartstrings,

the sort of places the Labour Party was born like Stoke-on-Trent. It was, for Stama, a very solid

performance in the old hackneyed red wall, patched up, part mended.

But is it enough? On today's election newsagents, the very best newsagents, we'll be taking you through what we've learned from today and last night.

What stayed the same and asking whether we are really heading for the first

Labour General Election victory since 2005, and whether that's even the right question.

It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents.

The news agents. First thing to remember, this was just England voting, and not even all of England.

Turnout was low, not exactly helped by new voter ID laws.

Scotland, Wales, London, the biggest cities, all left out.

And these things aren't just about national politics, but they do make the political weather in Westminster.

And for the first time, the Labour Party will be the biggest in local government since 2002. On a projected national share,

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