Local elections in the UK could accelerate the end for Keir Starmer

0:00 We did it.

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0:03 These elections in England, Scotland, and Wales,

0:05 they feel important because the Labour government that's been

0:09 in power for nearly two years is very unpopular.

0:11 And that sort of two-year time span makes them feel a bit like midterms.

0:17 They are in effect what a sort of midterm elections,

0:21 first ones for Keir Starmer and his Labour Party.

0:24 And for that reason and Starmer's own future is under question.

0:30 You know, it it it it makes them very, very important indeed.

0:33 Labour are likely to lose a substantial number of seats.

0:36 And the opposition Conservatives will lose seats at the same time.

0:40 And two new parties, or relatively new parties,

0:43 and that's the Greens on the left and Reform on the right,

0:47 they both look as if they're going to make substantial numbers of gains.

0:50 So, along with the Liberal Democrats, the centrist party,

0:53 um you know, Britain is moving from being, certainly in England, a three-party,

0:58 two-and-a-half-party system to something more like a five-party one.

1:01 And in Wales and Scotland, a six-party one.

1:04 That's why this all matters.