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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Isabelle Hardman.

Katie, can you give us a run through of the latest on the local election results?

So, caveat, we're recording this just before 9am. There's still a lot of results to come in,

but I think it's fair to say it's been a very painful night for the Tories more than any other party.

You have polling experts such as John Curtis saying that the Tories could actually...

You have polling experts such as John Curtis saying it isn't within the realms of possibility

that the Tories could actually lose 1,000 seats by the time this is all done.

And of course, when the Tories were talking about losing 1,000 seats,

that was widely seen as expectation management, not something they thought was the most likely.

Now the reason, I think things are looking quite bleak for the Tories,

is that on the one hand, Labour are performing pretty well.

They take control of Plymouth and Cancer and Stoke on Trent Cancer as well as Medway,

which were their key targets.

So, I think on some of those local issues, if you look at Plymouth, for example, the Trees,

but those were their target councils.

And then on the other, you had the Liberal Democrats, I think, doing better than some expected them to.

So, something we talked about previously on the podcast,

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