Sedgley’s Labour councillor Alan Quinn said the party had lost two “hard-working and proud” councillors because of a “backlash against the Labour Party”.
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While Labour retained overall control of Bury Council, its support collapsed in Prestwich – at the heart of Manchester’s Jewish community.
Lisa Nandy MP, one of Jeremy Corbyn’s close allies in the Labour party, has failed to deny claims that the party leader could be ousted if Labour does badly in the local council elections, reports Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent. Sedgley, the district that includes Prestwich, went from Labour to Conservative control in local government. “He has caused grotesque offense to the Jewish population in Prestwich with his absolutely terrible comments”.
The former London mayor was suspended by the Labour party last week for comments he made about the Nazi leader.
Placing third in Scotland, where Labour ruled for a half century, “would be a cataclysmic for morale and so beyond comprehension”, said John Mann, a Labour lawmaker at the national Parliament at Westminster.
The pro-independence Scottish National Party, or SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, was the victor once again, while Labor, with 22.6 percent of the vote – a drop of 9.2 percentage points – was relegated to third place in Parliament.
In Scotland, the pro-independence Scottish National Party is hoping to increase its hold and gain a mandate to push for a second referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom after a first attempt was defeated in 2014.
But Mr Murray – Labour’s only MP in Scotland – reflected deep unhappiness among MPs opposed to their leader’s left-wing agenda when he told the BBC: “I don’t think that the public see the UK Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn at the moment as being a credible party of future government in 2020”.
Addressing supporters in Sheffield, Mr Corbyn admitted the party has “a lot of building to do” in Scotland but brushed aside suggestions that he should stand down.
The victor will replace Boris Johnson, the Conservative who has run the city of 8.6 million people for eight years.
Britain’s Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in Islington, north London Thursday May 5, 2016. Results will be announced from late Thursday onwards, after voting ends at 10pm GMT.
The lone bright spot for a party struggling to unite and hold the Conservative government to account may be the London mayoral election, where Labour candidate Sadiq Khan looks set to be the first Muslim to take the post.
But Labour, who dominated politics in Scotland for decades, could find themselves beaten into third place by the Conservatives.
The party won just 24 Holyrood seats and were overtaken by the Conservatives, who became the official opposition with a record 31 seats – a result described by David Cameron as “absolutely stunning”.
Labour losses will probably “sap momentum and, at the margin, reduce Labour’s effectiveness as a pro-EU force”, providing an “unwelcome problem” for Cameron given the ambivalence of his own Conservatives on Europe, Rahman said.
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UKIP was the biggest gainer in England, taking a net 20 seats, and in Wales, where it won assembly seats for the first time.
