Labour's local election bloodbath: Will Starmer resign?
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4.1 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After what's shaping up to be a Labour bloodbath, Camilla and Tim reflect on a nightmare set of local election results for Keir Starmer. With the Prime Minister taking the blame but refusing to step aside, they assess whether his Cabinet colleagues may well take the decision out of his hands.
As bad a night as it’s been for Labour, it’s been a great one for Reform. Camilla and Tim are joined by a jubilant Nigel Farage, who says his party’s remarkable taking back of the “red wall” is down to Starmer’s “weak and ruderless” leadership, and that Reform’s gains are down to the Labour Party of “London human rights lawyers” not connecting with ordinary people.
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Highlights
- What local elections Labour bloodbath means for Starmer
- Farage tells The Daily T Reform has taken the red wall for good
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | Election wipeout for Labour. |
| 0:11.8 | Kier Stama has taken the blame, says he won't walk away, but has left the door slightly ajar. |
| 0:17.9 | A terrible night for the Prime Minister, but a phenomenal result for reform. Nigel Farage |
| 0:22.6 | joins us to say why these results suggest he will be the next Prime Minister. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley and me, Camilla Tomini. Tim, we've brewed an early cuppa in the yellow teapot. |
| 0:44.0 | We are about to go through the local election results. |
| 0:46.6 | As we know them so far, because we want to get this daily tea out early. |
| 0:50.1 | Yes. |
| 0:50.3 | But are we actually right now witnessing the fall of a prime minister? |
| 0:55.1 | Well, let's listen to Keir Stama describing the situation and his feelings at this trying moment. |
| 1:00.3 | We have lost brilliant Labour representatives, people who put so much into their communities, |
| 1:05.3 | so much into our party and our movement. |
| 1:08.0 | And the voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want |
| 1:12.6 | their lives improved. They was elected to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away |
| 1:19.0 | from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos. The robotic nature of his response |
| 1:26.9 | to what has been, let's be perfectly honest, |
| 1:30.0 | at the catastrophic end of catastrophic for labour, losing hundreds of councillors, |
| 1:37.8 | not even two years into their premiership, is extraordinary. |
| 1:42.2 | And we'll get on to talking about the rise of reform and speaking to Nigel Farage in just a moment. |
| 1:47.0 | But for the Prime Minister, let's just analyze that wording because what he's saying, |
| 1:51.0 | I'm going to resign, clearly, people are calling for that. |
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