LIVE: Farage boasts Labour and Tories are being ‘wiped out’

Take a look at our live-updating maps and charts produced by the Daily Mail’s Deep Dive team for the latest election results across England, Wales and Scotland.

Following declarations from 42 councils, Reform has won 311 council seats, while Labour has lost 210.

Nigel Farage’s party has also gained overall control at two councils, Havering and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

While Labour has lost power at eight local authorities: Exeter, Hartlepool, Redditch, Southampton, Tamworth, Tameside, Westminster and Wandsworth.

The Liberal Democrats have gained 29 councillors while the Tories have lost 78 and the Greens have won 23 seats.

We can now bring you video of Sir Keir Starmer’s reaction to Labour’s disastrous local election results as he insists he will not quit Downing Street.

The Prime Minister has vowed to stand in the next election despite calls for him to stand down from his own party.

Watch his interview below:

Sir Keir Starmer has said his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has made it ‘absolutely clear’ he supports him carrying on in Downing Street.

The Prime Minister made the remarks following a report in The Times that Miliband has privately urged Sir Keir to set out a timetable for his departure.

Miliband, a former Labour leader, has dismissed the report.

Asked this morning about whether Miliband has encouraged him to consider when to leave office, Sir Keir replied: ‘Well, I think Ed Miliband has dealt with this and made it absolutely clear that he supports me.’

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by Jason Groves, Political Editor

Labour have taken a battering at the hands of Nigel Farage in a mega round of local elections that will seal Keir Starmer’s fate.

Overnight results point to stunning gains for Reform UK in what was once Labour’s Red Wall.

In Hartlepool, Labour lost every seat to Reform. The local Labour MP, whose wife was among the defeated candidates, made the first of what will be many calls for Keir Starmer to resign.

The psychological blow is hard to overstate.

In Angela Rayner’s backyard, in Tameside, Labour lost all but one seat to Reform. Fellow cabinet minister Lisa Nandy saw Labour lose every seat to Mr Farage’s party in Wigan.

These are areas that stayed Labour even in the great Brexit election of 2019 when Boris Johnson made sweeping inroads into the party’s heartlands.

Labour have already thrown in the towel in Wales, where they had seemingly ruled forever, and there is no prospect of the hoped-for revival in Scotland.

The results also underline the fracturing of the UK’s two-party system. Labour is losing votes to everyone, everywhere.

Speaking in Havering after Reform UK won control of the east London council, Nigel Farage said he was ‘thrilled and delighted’ at his party’s results in the local elections.

Asked by reporters whether the success was a result of a protest vote against the Labour government, he said:

It cannot continue to be a fluke or a protest vote. I can honestly say you are witnessing an historic shift in British politics. This (Reform UK) is now the most national of all parties.

Mr Farage added Labour and the Conservatives were being ‘wiped out’ in their traditional heartlands and said Reform would bring a mix of new ideas and experience.

He added:

We all know that finances of local councils all over the country are severely stretched. We are not promising miracles but we are promising good value for money.

The result in Havering now means Reform has won 299 council seats in what is proving to be a hugely successful night for Nigel Farage and his party.

Reform UK have won control of Havering Council in east London after winning at least 28 of the 55 seats in the local authority where previously residents and ratepayer groups had a majority.

The Prime Minister, speaking to local Labour members, admitted he had made ‘unnecessary mistakes’ as he promised to set out how he will deliver change.

He said:

We’ve made some big calls, to stabilise our public finances, to invest in our public services, not to get dragged into a war in Iran.

But we’ve also made unnecessary mistakes, one of which was that although we were right to level with the public about the scale and depth of the challenges we face, we didn’t do enough to convince them that things will get better, that things will improve, the hope.

And that is why in the coming days I’m going to set out the steps that we will take to deliver the change that they want and that they deserve.

The Prime Minister has promised a reaction to Labour’s terrible performance in the local elections.

Speaking in London this morning, Sir Keir said:

When voters send a message like this we must reflect and we must respond. I think the vast majority of people do understand that we face huge challenges as a country.

We’ve had a series of economic shocks in recent years and there’s a very difficult international situation at present, they know that.

But they still want their lives to improve, they still want to see the change that we promised, they know the status quo is letting them down and they’re frustrated, they don’t feel the changes.

Reform are claiming victory in Havering where the party says it now has full control.

It would be the second council win for Reform after taking Newcastle-under-Lyme from the Conservatives earlier this morning.