‘Nationwide’ Labour thrashing looms as devastating poll predicts party will lose 1,850 councillors in May elections

LABOUR is on course to lose almost 2,000 councillors in next week’s local elections — as Andy Burnham warns a post-poll “change of course” is needed. A devastating new forecast predicts the worst mid-term result for a governing party in three decades. Pollster Lord Robert Hayward says PM Sir Sir Keir Starmer will concede 1,850 seats in a nationwide thrashing. The party is also expected to lose power in Wales to Plaid Cymru for the first time in history, and fail to unseat the scandal-prone SNP from Holyrood. Reform is projected to be the biggest winner on May 7 by...