Latest updates: key developments from the UK’s 2021 devolved and local elections
- SNP win: PM sets up summit as Sturgeon pledges second referendum
- Angela Rayner fired as Labour gripped by post-poll rancour
- Analysis: Rayner sacking risks reopening Labour’s wounds
- Sadiq Khan reelected as London mayor after rival runs him close
- 2021 elections: results for the English local, Scottish and Welsh polls
The Green party was celebrating what it called a “landmark result” in Bristol, where the party came second to Labour’s Marvin Rees.
Candidate Sandy Hore-Ruthven said:
The number of Green votes shows that the tide is turning and it’s time to change how we run our cities.
Tens of thousands of Bristolians have used their vote to say we must protect our natural world and ensure no-one is left behind.
Huge surge to the Greens in Bristol! Great work @sandyhruthven and all the team. It was so great to be able to join you on the campaign trail
Looking forward to tomorrow’s @bristolgreen council election results! https://t.co/1LiCI1ymYZ
Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott said the party’s leadership should revisit the “popular” policies of the its 2019 general election manifesto to get it back to winning ways.
Speaking to Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Abbott, who described the Hartlepool byelection loss as “distressing”, said:
I think we need to be building on the policies in the 2019 manifesto, many of which were forward-thinking and popular. We need to get the strategy right.
We won Hartlepool twice under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and, importantly, with a bigger proportion of the vote.
You can’t say that Jeremy is responsible for the Hartlepool result. The disaffection in post-industrial Britain long predates Jeremy’s leadership and we have to look at the roots of it.
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