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Local election results 2024 live: Conservatives lose West Midlands to Labour's Richard Parker - BBC News Mayor election results 2024 live: Conservatives lose West Midlands to Labour's Richard Parker - BBC News
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Professor Sir John Curtice In a parting shot, Starmer says Britain has "had enough of 14 years of decline, chaos and division" and that voters want "to usher in national renewal with Labour".
Polling expert He says the country wants change, and he calls for a general election "as soon as possible".
In the most exciting and perhaps most important result of the last 48 hours, Labour has narrowly seized the West Midlands mayoralty from the grasp of incumbent Conservative Andy Street.
This result will be deeply disappointing for Downing Street who were relying on not only winning the Tees Valley mayoralty to dispel some of the electoral gloom, but also to be able to trumpet Street's victory.
In the event, Street's defeat has served to underline the size of the electoral black hole in which the Conservatives find themselves.
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