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The Conservatives could suffer a "double whammy" of a Labour vote share that has spread outside of it's usual concentration in urban centres and tactical voting across the UK at the next general election, according to pollsters analysing the local election results.
Natalie Elphicke has become the latest MP to leave the Conservatives and defect to the Labour party.
Rishi Sunak will launch his latest bid to lift the spirits of despondent Conservative MPs this week after a dispiriting set of local elections left them with only one Tory mayor and around half the council seats they started with.
Alistair Strathern, the recently elected MP for Mid-Bedfordshire has said he faced a “complete step change” on entering parliament without the resources he had enjoyed during his election campaign.
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.
Sadiq Khan is on track to be re-elected as Mayor of London for a third term.
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.