Rishi Sunak is safe even if Tories suffer big local election defeats, cabinet minister says

Forecasts of today’s local elections suggest that the Conservatives could lose half of their council seats as well as key mayoral contests in Yorkshire and across the country. It has been widely reported this week that Tory rebels could use a poor performance in this week’s elections as an excuse to oust the Prime Minister in order to turn around its poor polling ahead of a general election later this year.

Labour yesterday accused the Conservatives of continuing with an “tiny scheme at an extortionate cost” that has been pushed out ahead of the local elections. In today’s elections a third of seats are up for grabs in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield and Hull. Mayoral contests will also be held for West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the Tees Valley, as well as York and North Yorkshire which will elect its first ever metro mayor.

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