In a night of results portending a brutal general election for British Conservatives, the Labour Party swept a whole host of local elections across England and Wales on Thursday, with the Tories losing at least half of the council seats they had been defending in the races called so far, the BBC reports.
In what’s probably even a a graver sign for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a special parliamentary election in Blackpool South to replace Conservative MP Scott Benton, who resigned after getting caught in a lobbying sting operation, saw a 26 percent swing to Labour candidate Chris Webb.