Jeremy Corbyn is facing his first major electoral test since becoming Labour leader as votes are counted in elections across the UK. Most of the results are in, and what have we learned?
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Veteran backbencher David Winnick called on Mr Corbyn to consider his position.
“The party faces a crisis and the onus is on Jeremy himself”.
In a possible signal that Labour’s prospects of forming a government at Westminster are fading, shadow home secretary and former leadership challenger, Andy Burnham, said he was considering running for mayor of Greater Manchester.
“I don’t think that any of the candidates have a magic solution so it’s incredibly hard to chose between them”, White said as she voted in London.
“We certainly have to make progress in Scotland before the next general election”, Watson said.
Tory former Cabinet minister, now Government anti-corruption “tsar”, Eric Pickles, insisted the Scottish result proved Labour could never rule England again without the “connivance” of the SNP.
The most closely watched race is for mayor of London – an election that may give the capital its first Muslim leader.
UKIP has also taken its first seats in the Welsh Assembly, and while Labour remains the largest party it failed to retain an overall majority.
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Addressing supporters in Sheffield after a dismal night for Labour, Mr Corbyn has admitted the party has “a lot of building to do” in Scotland but brushed aside suggestions that he should stand down.
The paper says it brought the posts to the attention of party officials which triggered the activist’s suspension.
Leftwinger Corbyn, under pressure from centrists in his party since taking power previous year, insisted his party had “hung on” and surpassed expectations.
“I don’t have all the answers, but I understand the seriousness of the task ahead”, he said, when questioned on Labour’s huge losses in Scotland.
Asked if he was directly attacking Mr Corbyn’s campaign strategy, Mr Khan said: “My point is this”.
Mr Livingstone said last week that Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s “before he went mad” and killed six million Jews.
“Would I have wanted better?”
“It has been a really good night for us”.
“Very confident of the Labour vote today and very confident of support for our wonderful party”. Who knows what might happen?
“Disastrous legacy of loads of seats put right by Ruth Davidson [the Scottish Tories leader]”, she wrote.
Although it took just one parliamentary seat in last year’s general election, UKIP won 13 percent of the vote, and awareness of the party is now at a high with the Brexit referendum looming.
“It certainly wasn’t the disaster for Labour many people were predicting and sadly some in the Labour Party were actually hoping for”, Mr Roache told the BBC. The Lib Dems also made modest gains in local council elections.
Mr Farage declared his party was now ahead of the Lib Dems.
“We’re holding our own, but we should be doing dramatically better than this”.
Gemma Doyle, the former Labour MP for West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, tweeted that Labour losing Eastwood was “almost certainly” down to the party’s antisemitism row.
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The election fought this week under Corbyn marked the fist time since 1985 that an opposition party had lost English council seats.
