Starmer confident of Labour general election win with council gains from Tories

The opposition leader told supporters that Labour was on course for a majority at the next general election after making significant gains in the England council elections on Friday.
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Speaking alongside the newly elected Labour councillor Vince Maple, Starmer said: 'We understood what it's like not to be able to make ends meet. And we said what we would do to help people with their everyday bills. And the government, the prime minister said nothing. And that's because they're the problem, not the solution.'

Rishi Sunak addressed the poor results for the Tories so far. 'It's still early,' he said. 'What I am going to carry on doing is delivering on the people's priorities, halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing debt, cutting waiting lists and stopping the boats'

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