LIVE: Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan expected to lose seat

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.

The Greens have won their first ever seat in the Welsh Parliament, with Anthony Slaughter winning one of six seats at Caerdydd Penarth.

Former transport secretary Louise Haigh has suggested Sir Keir Starmer should step down before the next general election.

Ms Haigh, who served in Sir Keir’s first cabinet, told ITV Sir Keir can’t lead the party into another vote unless ‘significant and urgent change is delivered’.

She told ITV Calendar:

He is doing an incredible job at the moment on the international stage in the middle of global instability and a war. And it is imperative that he is successful in that role because our constituents livelihoods are dependent upon it.

But I think what is abundantly clear, is that unless the government delivers significant and urgent change, then the prime minister cannot lead us into another election.

In the last hour, Labour has lost Preston City Council after Greens and Reform made gains in Lancashire.

Based on half of councils in England (68 of 136) having fully declared their results, Labour has won 50 per cent of the seats it was defending, while the Conservatives have won 56 per cent, according to Press Association analysis.

Reform has so far won 35% per cent of the seats it contested this year, while the Greens have won 7 per cent.

Here’s the current state of play at 4pm:

Nigel Farage’s party has gained more than 600 seats along with council wins in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Havering, Essex and Suffolk

Lost nearly 300 seats and power in 12 councils including Blackburn and Darwen, Cambridge, Exeter, Hartlepool, Oxford, Redditch, Southampton, Tameside, Tamworth, Preston, Wandsworth and Westminster

• Conservatives

Lost more than 200 seats and control of Essex, Suffolk and Newcastl-under-Lyme council but gains Westminster from Labour

• Liberal Democrats

Has won 371 seats and won control of Portsmouth and Stockport councils

Won more than 100 seats plus the Hackney mayoralty from Labour

The Daily Mail’s UK Political Editor James Tapsfield gives his thoughts on who can stop Nigel Farage from claiming the keys to Downing Street after Reform’s huge success in the local elections.

Labour has lost control of Preston City Council after losing ground to Reform UK, who had won four seats and the Greens, who had won two seats.

Reform UK’s leader in Wales, Dan Thomas, has spoken after being elected to the Senedd.

Making a victory speech at the Casnewydd Islwyn vote count, he said:

My final and most important thank you is to the people of Newport and Islwyn, who have overwhelmingly placed their faith in Reform. You have given us a huge responsibility and we will not let you down.”

For decades the Welsh Valleys and cities such as Islwyn and Newport have been ignored, let down and forgotten by the old parties of Wales. Today, the people have spoken, and now in Reform, they finally have a voice.

Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges says he understands Angela Rayner is ‘preparing an intervention’ but won’t challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the leadership.

It is being reported no Labour ministers will join some backbenchers by calling on Sir Keir to stand down.

Ms Rayner is understood to be one of the frontrunners in the event of a leadership contest.

John Swinney has said it is clear the SNP will emerge as the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, as he was re-elected in his Perthshire North constituency.

Scotland’s First Minister said his party’s results were a ‘moment of enormous, enormous significance for me’, thanking his supporters.

He won with 16,414 votes, a majority of just over 6,000.

Giving his victory speech at the election count in Perth, he said:

I express my warmest thanks to my constituents who supported me so emphatically in this election today.

We are at the very early stages of the election count across the country. But it is becoming clear that the Scottish National Party is going to emerge as the largest party in this election campaign. That is, for me, something incredibly precious

Reform’s leader in Wales said it was ‘too early to say’ what the outcome of the Senedd elections could be.

Dan Thomas declined to say whether he would be Wales’s next first minister, also telling reporters at the Casnewydd Islwyn count in Newport: ‘I’m not going to go into speculation and hypothetical questions. It’s too early.

‘We all know that Labour are finished, we know that after 27 years of failure, letting the people of Wales down. We know that much.

‘But apart from that, I think it’s too early to say.’

Scottish Labour is ‘hurting’ after the party ‘didn’t win the argument’ in the Holyrood election, the party’s leader Anas Sarwar has said.

Speaking as he entered the Emirates Arena in Glasgow for the election count, the party leader claimed ‘those who seek to divide us and use people with frustrations to divide us are going to win the day today’.

But Mr Sarwar hinted that he would not step down from his post, telling journalists: ‘My party is hurting – we’re disappointed, we advocate for change, we didn’t win that argument, but it’s my job to hold us together and that’s a job I intend to do’.

Reform MP and business spokesman Richard Tice visited the Birmingham City Council count and said the party had ‘absolutely smashed it’ in other areas of the West Midlands, including Newcastle-under-Lyme and Tamworth.

The Boston and Skegness MP said it was too early to gauge the extent of his party’s success in Birmingham.

Citing Reform UK’s strong showing in parts of Staffordshire, a year after it won control of the county council, he added: ‘Voters are doubling down and saying thank you very much Reform councils for what you’ve done so far.’

He added that the results already in in the region amounted to voters saying ‘yes, we are going to give you an extra chance to do even better’.