This is The Guardian.

This is obviously terrible news for Kier-Starmer's Labour Party because they'll be losing votes

both to the right and to the left.

No, I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos.

I think one was clear was he was quite bullish.

There's no sense at the moment that he's going to roll over.

I think you can't underestimate the reform machine.

So it's a big, big day.

The Greens, but it's really symbolic victory.

Two-party politics is not just dying.

It is dead and it is buried.

Nigel Farage has hailed a historic shift in British politics as his Reform UK party wins big

in the local elections. And despite huge losses for Labour, the Prime Minister insists he's not

going anywhere. From The Guardian's today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Alexander Toffing, our political correspondent. Thanks for being with us, Lexi. I hope you got some sleep last night. I managed about a 2am and then I forced myself to go to sleep. Yeah, I got some. I got some. Some is enough. But what we've woken up to, and we're speaking at about lunchtime at 1 o'clock on Fridays, so lots still to emerge. We're about a third of the way through, but this broad

picture of major losses for labour, but perhaps not catastrophic and a huge surge for reforms.

So let's look at the sort of overall picture as it stands. I mean, like you say,

I think it's a really complex picture and we only know a tiny little bit of that jigsaw at the

moment. So we will see as it goes forward. I mean, we've certainly had very bullish words from

Nigel Farage and reform this morning. A historic victory. A historic shift is what he's saying,

saying that they're taking seats from both Labour and the Conservatives. True. You know,

they are up by far the strongest performing party so far and likely to be by the end of the day.

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