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The West Midlands mayoral election is on a knife edge with a recount ordered by the Tories in Coventry after it was considered to be unclear whether Labour or Conservatives had clinched the mayoralty.
The Conservatives have faced a second difficult day of local election results, after Labour's Sadiq Khan comfortably beat Tory Susan Hall to retain the London mayoralty, while Tory incumbent Andy Street's fate hangs in the balance in the West Midlands.
Rishi Sunak is expected to avoid a Tory rebel bid to oust him as party leader and Prime Minister despite an ominous picture emerging from Thursday's local elections.
The local election performances of both the Green Party and Reform could give an indication of electoral challenges to come for Labour and the Conservatives into the general election and beyond, electoral experts have suggested.
The Conservative party's Ben Houchen has been re-elected as Mayor of the Tees Valley.
Labour has overturned the Conservatives' majority in the Blackpool South by-election, marking the governing party's third consecutive by-election defeat so far this year.
Labour’s shadow minister responsible for building safety and homelessness Mike Amesbury has said people in homes built with potentially dangerous materials are caught in a “perpetual state of anxiety and frustration”, and accused developers and insurers of playing “ping pong” with remediation work.
Campaigners are looking more towards Labour to abolish Leasehold as the party edges closer to power – but many are concerned reforming the sector will not be a top priority for the party.