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Local election results 2024 live: Mayoral results due after Labour notches up key wins - BBC News Local election results 2024 live: London mayor and West Midlands race being counted - BBC News
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Professor Sir John Curtice We're hearing from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who is in the East Midlands.
Professor of politics at University of Strathclyde Former vice-chair of the Conservative party Ben Bradley lost his bid to become the first mayor of the East Midlands. Labour's Claire Ward, the former MP for Watford, won the election with a 52,000 vote majority.
Conservative mayor Ben Houchen was re-elected in Tees Valley on Friday, and the party will hope to see similar success in the West Midlands and London today. As a reminder, you can watch the coverage by pressing Play at the top of this page.
However, these mayoral elections are basically a comfort blanket of consolation and not really something on which to base a realistic assessment of how the Tories might perform in a general election.
These metro mayor contests were designed to people didn't necessarily vote for the same party they usually would in a national election.
The truth is that we know from polling in Teesside and the West Midlands that many voters were willing to vote for a Tory mayor but don't back the party nationally.
For that reason, these contests don't necessarily provide a good guide as to what will happen when the country goes to the polls.
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