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Local election results so far show Rishi Sunak has “very little to show” for his efforts to reclaim the Conservative brand after Liz Truss’ premiership, Sir John Curtice has said.

The election expert told the BBC: “There is nothing in these results to suggest, contrary to opinion polls, that the Conservatives are beginning to close the gap with Labour, and that at least so far, Rishi Sunak’s project , which has tried to recover from After the disaster – from the conservatives’ point of view – of Liz Truss’s fiscal event, that project still has very little to show.

“That, in a sense, is the big takeaway.

“Now the Conservatives, like when all parties do badly at elections, always want you to focus on the exception rather than the rule, and the Tees Valley and probably the West Midlands are the exceptions, not the rule.”
On Labour’s losses over its stance on Gaza, Sir John said: “At the moment I think what we would find if we had a general election is that Labor could well back down in some of these seats, but because the Labor Party is already so strong, they would probably still manage to win the parliamentary elections.

“But yes, this is a great message for the Labor Party from these local elections: in fact, they are now in trouble with some of their former Muslim supporters.”