This is The Guardian.

Let me be clear, these are really tough results.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

The voters have sent a message about the pace of change.

I was elected to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away.

I think overall what's happened is a truly historic shift in British politics.

Two-party politics is not just dying, it is dead and it is buried.

It's very clear that the new politics is the Green Party

versus reform. Those people who want everything to change overnight are people who don't know

how to do the work, who don't know how to build. The Conservative Party is the only serious

alternative to Labour right now. I'm Pippa Carrera. And I'm Kieran, and I'm Kieran,

and you're listening to Politics Weekly.

For The Guardian.

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We're recording this at 2 o'clock on Friday.

And we have only 51 out of 136 council declared in the English council elections.

And obviously, Scotland and Wales

still to come as well alongside other results tonight and into Saturday. But already,

Kieran, we can start to see some trends in this really important set of elections,

can't we? Yeah. And, you know, they're not entirely unexpected trends, Pippa. I mean,

the big losers so far from the

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