Keir Starmer promised to “rebuild trust.” Now his own side is basically begging Labour to save itself before it’s too late. Union leaders say the party has abandoned working people, local elections are turning into a bloodbath, and Reform is storming through Labour heartlands like a wrecking ball. The man who spent years telling Britain he was the “serious alternative” is now watching his political project unravel at record speed.

She said: “[The working class] have delivered their verdict. They have painted the ballot boxes of our towns and swathes of the Midlands and the North turquoise and even green. They have done so using the brush of decades of Labour failure.

“Only fundamental, irreversible change will stem the tide. If the party does not shift decisively towards the working class it is finished. It is change or die. Now or never.”

Reform UK piled on councillors across the country as party leader Nigel Farage claimed there had been a “truly historic shift in British politics”.

Labour also suffered from voters switching to the Green Party as Zack Polanski declared the era of two-party  politics “is not just dying, it is dead and it is buried”.