Embarrassing local election results in parts

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Sun May 10

Not said much about this, we did not do voting round here. There were no seats to be voted for on the town or county councils. If you voted reform you should be feeling bad right now. I hope in the future people will feel bad for voting this way, but more likely people will rewrite history like with the brexit, and say they thought they were doing the best thing at the time. I can't quite believe they're a serious thing, but they seem to have taken over, albeit only in certain areas. Well done Portsmouth, Southampton, Havant, basically all the areas down that way for at least partly keeping them out.

I'm in favour of Keir Starmer staying in position until the general election at least. Catherine West, who the hell are you?

Until yesterday afternoon, Catherine West had rarely made headlines.

But in an unexpected move on Saturday, the former junior Foreign Office minister issued an ultimatum to Keir Starmer's cabinet to challenge the PM, or vowed to do so herself.

While we continue to unpick the political fallout following Labour's heavy election losses, we've taken a closer look at who she is.

West is the Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet in north London, having first been elected in May 2015 to represent Hornsey and Wood Green.

She currently sits on the Treasury Select Committee and also serves as trade envoy to Pakistan.

She had stints as a shadow minister in the Foreign Office from 2015-2017 and 2020-2024, first under Jeremy Corbyn's party leadership and then later under Starmer's.

West was sacked from the role by Corbyn in 2017 for defying him over a vote on the EU single market.

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