Local Electioncast: The Results! (Part 2)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the local election results in full.

Reform now have well over 600 councillors. Party leader Nigel Farage said the victory over Labour and the Conservatives was “unprecedented”.

The Liberal Democrats are also celebrating after successful election results. The party increased their number of councillors, with its leader Ed Davey saying they are now “the part of Middle England”.

Pollster Luke Tryl joins Paddy and Laura.

And we’ll have all the latest reaction from Prince Harry’s bombshell BBC exclusive interview on Friday.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.9	Laura, a moment ago you gasped.
0:07.0	Maybe because you've been on continuously for 24 hours, but it was something else.
0:10.8	It was.
0:12.2	This might make people gasp if they haven't seen it or heard it.
0:15.9	Laura's holding a photograph up to the microphone, which is an unusual broadcast technique, but it's a
0:21.9	picture of, actually we've got Luke Trill here, we're going to speak to. Luke, what is it a picture
0:26.0	of? It is a picture of Donald Trump as the next pope. And not just from Donald Trump's
0:34.1	account, retweeted, or re-xed, or or whatever we call it now by the White House official account.
0:40.1	Put that on the list of things that you could never have imagined happening at the beginning of 2025.
0:45.2	It is the perfect photograph that sums up the current news cycle.
0:49.4	And in this episode, let's not discuss that photograph, but we'll discuss the local election results
0:53.4	and our excellent colleague Nedator Feeq's interview, her exclusive interview with Prince Harry
0:59.0	that's got tongues wagging all over the world.
1:01.7	Newscast.
1:02.3	Newscast from the BBC.
1:04.0	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
1:07.0	Did I say that?
1:08.4	I can't believe I said that.
1:09.8	Next question.
1:10.6	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
1:13.2	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes.
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