Many of the front pages lead with the immediate fallout from Labour’s election losses across England, Scotland and Wales. The Times calls the election results “Labour’s historic battering”. The paper says the party faces an “existential threat” after it lost “1,300 councillors, was routed in Wales and gave up areas in the traditional heartlands it had controlled for a century”. In addition to losing seats across the north of England and Midlands to Reform UK, “Labour haemorrhaged support to the Greens on the left in its former strongholds in inner-city London”.
