UK local elections LIVE: Tories suffer double mayoral election losses in London and West Midlands - with Rishi Sunak warned he could face fresh rebel coup bid

Former furniture curate Dr Liam Fox has warned that Tory rebels would lone rile their ain elector basal adjacent much if they moved to topple Rishi Sunak.

Dr Fox, who served successful authorities nether David Cameron and aboriginal Theresa May, besides suggested Labour and person Sir Keir Starmer could person passed their 'high-water mark' of success.

The ex-Defence Secretary and MP for North Somerset has urged his enactment to propulsion guardant with 'ruthless connection subject and a communicative that wherever Labour describes the problems, Conservatives present solutions'.

Writing successful the Independent, helium insisted rallying down the Prime Minister could bring astir what helium called 'the biggest governmental turnaround successful decades'.

And helium blamed his party's losses successful Thursday's elections connected Tory voters staying location owed to 'deep irritation astatine the evident splits successful the Conservative Party'.

Salford City Council has present announced its results.

A 3rd of councillors were up for predetermination and Labour person picked up 1 successful different stroke for the Tories.

The quality volition not interaction who runs the council, but is different Labour summation amid a bleak tally of results for the Conservative party.

Suella Braverman has urged Rishi Sunak to alteration people aft the predetermination blows.

The erstwhile Home Secretary said the Prime Minister indispensable alteration his governmental people to enactment successful powerfulness arsenic determination isn't clip to alteration Tory leader.

Ms Braverman advised Mr Sunak to determination to the close successful effect to the canvass blows, which saw a triumph for Labour successful the West Midlands mayoral contention past night.

Polling guru Prof John Curtice said the results demonstrated Mr Sunak has 'very small to show' for his efforts to reconstruct the Tories' fortunes aft Liz Truss's abrtive premiership.

The predetermination adept told the BBC: 'There is thing successful these results to suggest contrary to the sentiment polls that the Conservatives are really opening to constrictive the spread connected Labour, and that truthful acold astatine least, Rishi Sunak's task which has tried to retrieve from the catastrophe – from the Conservatives' constituent of presumption – of the Liz Truss fiscal event, that task has inactive got precise small to amusement for it.

'That successful a consciousness is the large takeaway.

'Now the Conservatives, arsenic erstwhile each parties bash severely successful elections, they ever privation you to absorption connected the objection alternatively than the rule, and Tees Valley and astir apt the West Midlands are the exceptions not the rule.'

While the occurrence of Ben Houchen successful the Tees Valley mayoral predetermination had seemingly helped Rishi Sunak quell a revolt, the nonaccomplishment of Andy Street (pictured) successful the West Midlands did the opposite.

One Tory MP told MailOnline that Downing Street had quelled dissent up to present by 'bullsh*****' that 'all's going to beryllium fine' and suggesting Susan Hall was going to triumph successful London.

'Despite each the highly affirmative backstage rotation from No10 to Tory MPs since Thursday, we've mislaid good implicit 400 assembly seats, Andy Street has lost, Susan Hall has been defeated successful London,' they said.

'Ben Houchen won without having the balls to deterioration a bluish rosette, adjacent astatine his ain triumph count... Rishi's Sunak's utterly hapless Leadership is present decidedly successful play.'

The MP added that they had not sent a missive of nary assurance before, but would beryllium present - predicting that the threshold of 52 for a ballot would beryllium hit.

Despite their hardly veiled delight astatine the section predetermination results, Labour should not go implicit confident.

That's the presumption of Labour erstwhile Home Secretary David Blunkett.

Writing successful the Daily Mail, Baron Blunkett says the enactment indispensable connection a wide imaginativeness connected what it is offering the state and that wide predetermination victory, portion likely, could beryllium acold little convincing that galore think.

You tin work his afloat thoughts below:

Suella Braverman has stuck the footwear into Rishi Sunak this morning.

After archetypal saying the Prime Minister had to ain the predetermination results and that she regretted backing him successful his Tory enactment challenge, she past went further.

The erstwhile Home Secretary told BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that if things proceed arsenic they are 'we'll beryllium fortunate to person immoderate Conservative MPs astatine the adjacent election'.

Conservative erstwhile curate Dame Andrea Jenkyns has called for Boris Johnson to instrumentality to the 'front enactment of politics'.

Dame Andrea submitted a missive of no-confidence successful Rishi Sunak successful November.

She told Sky News's Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: 'I deliberation present we've got to instrumentality the combat to Labour, I would similar to spot existent communal consciousness conservatism, honouring our manifesto commitments.

'I would similar to spot the instrumentality of Boris connected the beforehand enactment of politics, whether that's going for a spot successful the adjacent predetermination and being beforehand and centre of our predetermination campaign.

Asked if she could spot Johnson and Sunak campaigning unneurotic connected associated visits, she said: 'I haven't spoken to Boris, I haven't spoken to the Prime Minister astir this, but I'm an optimist, I'm not definite whether they'd stock a signifier together, but look however fantastic it is Boris campaigning successful these elections.

'He's inactive got a propulsion and he's inactive got a propulsion successful my area; inactive connected the doorstep, Trevor, radical accidental to maine that they're saddened that Boris is nary longer connected the beforehand enactment of politics.'

While astir of the time volition beryllium dominated by absorption to the Conservative's losses implicit the past 72 hours, determination are inactive much results to come.

A full of 3 section predetermination results are inactive to beryllium declared with these acceptable to beryllium announced connected Sunday afternoon.

These are the results for:

Mark Harper did not judge cancelling the 2nd signifier of HS2 had an interaction connected the Conservatives' results successful the section elections.

He described outgoing West Midlands Tory politician Andy Street arsenic a 'fantastic mayor'.

But erstwhile asked by the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg astir the interaction of scrapping the bluish limb of HS2 connected the results, helium said: 'Well that illustrates I deliberation thing truly important astir the Prime Minister. He is funny successful taking hard decisions that mightiness not beryllium fashionable with everyone but are successful the semipermanent interests of the state and are the close decision.'

Pressed that this was not successful Mr Street's semipermanent interests, Mr Harper added: 'Well I disagree. Every azygous penny of the wealth we saved from cancelling the 2nd signifier of HS2 is being reinvested successful transport.

'I was successful the West Midlands conscionable a fewer weeks agone with Andy Street for the motorboat of a £1.75 cardinal Midlands obstruction hub, improving the connectivity of Birmingham crossed the country.'

Tory erstwhile curate Suella Braverman has called connected Rishi Sunak to determination to the close successful effect to the predetermination results.

'Rishi Sunak has been starring america for astir 18 months, helium has been making these decisions, these are consequences of those decisions. He needs to ain this, and truthful helium needs to hole it,' she told the BBC.

'I deliberation the occupation is that our voters are connected strike, they are not coming retired to enactment us, we person seen that with turnouts and we person seen that with losing Conservative strongholds.'

The erstwhile location caput called connected Rishi Sunak to determination rightwards with much taxation cuts, and a headdress connected ineligible migration among the policies she suggested.

Asked for her grounds of a request to displacement further to the right, she said: 'The grounds is that radical are not voting for what helium is doing due to the fact that they don't judge that we are superior astir immoderate of these issues.'

When asked if she regretted supporting Mr Sunak's leadership, Ms Braverman said: 'Honestly, yes I do.'

There has been a batch to instrumentality successful implicit the past fewer days - thankfully we person this useful graphic to springiness you the cardinal details:

The Prime Minister's program is not moving and Rishi Sunak needs to hole it arsenic determination is nary clip to alteration Tory leader, Suella Braverman has said.

The Conservative erstwhile location caput told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: 'The program is not moving and I despair astatine these unspeakable results.

'There is nary spinning these results, determination is nary disguising the information that these person been unspeakable predetermination results for the Conservatives and they suggest that we are heading to a Labour authorities and that fills maine with horror.

'I emotion my country, I attraction astir my enactment and I privation america to win, and I americium urging the Prime Minister to alteration course, to with humility bespeak connected what voters are telling us, and alteration the program and the mode that helium is communicating and starring us.'

Asked astir whether she wanted to spot a alteration successful leader, Ms Braverman said: 'I conscionable don't deliberation that is simply a feasible imaginable close now, we don't person capable clip and it is intolerable for anyone caller to travel and alteration our fortunes to beryllium honest. There is nary superman oregon superwoman retired determination who tin bash it.'

Sir Keir Starmer says helium is feeling 'proud' aft a precise palmy acceptable of results successful the section elections, with the Labour person saying 'bring connected a wide election'.

Conservative enactment president Richard Holden, who is facing disapproval implicit the predetermination campaigns, is trying to calm furious politicians and activists.

Writing successful The Telegraph helium claimed that the effect showed determination was 'no surge successful emotion for Sir Keir Starmer'.

'While Labour made immoderate gains, they person failed to romp to victory, falling good abbreviated of the 350 predicted gains,' helium said.

He added that 'the nationalist has had capable of infighting', saying: 'It is incumbent connected maine to pass this connection from voters to my colleagues – permission sniping from the sidelines to Sir Keir, get down our Prime Minister and marque the lawsuit for our enactment to our country.'

Ever consciousness you're moving excessively hard? Spare a thought for polling guru Sir John Curtice who has walk astir of the past 3 days connected our TV screens.

In fact, he's spent truthful small clip disconnected screen, that immoderate acrophobic viewers person done the maths and figured retired precisely however agelong he's gone without sleep.

Key battlegrounds crossed the UK person turned from bluish to reddish arsenic counting for section elections person changed the governmental scenery successful England and Wales.

You tin spot however immoderate erstwhile Tory heartlands swung distant from the Conservatives successful the maps below:

Rishi Sunak has admitted it was 'disappointing' that Andy Street lost, but insisted the state was 'turning a corner' and that his party's program 'is working'.

Tory rebels are lining up to instrumentality the weapon into the Prime Minister arsenic they warned that the 'gamechanging' decision meant Mr Sunak could present look a caller bid to oust him - though different MPs reiterated their presumption it was excessively late.

But Mr Sunak remains defiant, insisting that the Tory enactment 'understand the priorities of the British radical and are delivering connected them'.

You tin work his afloat effect here:

Jubilant Kier Starmer past nighttime hailed Lbaour's triumph successful the West Midlands mayoral predetermination arsenic a 'phenomenal result'.

Labour's Richard Parker bushed Tory incumbant Andy Street by 1,508 votes to go Mayor successful an highly adjacent contest.

Talking aft the result, Street said helium was 'incredibly proud' helium had mislaid by specified a bladed margin, contempt being 'personally devastated' by the result.

He said: 'Given that this has ever been a spot wherever immoderate radical said you should ne'er person won successful the archetypal place, I'm really very, precise arrogant of what we've done.

'The happening everyone should instrumentality from Birmingham successful the West Midlands contiguous is this marque of moderate, inclusive, tolerant conservatism that gets connected and delivered has travel wrong an ace of beating the Labour Party in, what they considered to beryllium their backyard.'

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If you spent Saturday distant from your telephone oregon the news, the biggest happening you whitethorn person missed was the results of the London and West Midlands mayoral elections.

Labour's Sadiq Khan won a historical 3rd word arsenic Mayor of London, fending disconnected the Tory Susan Hall with an accrued stock of the vote.

There had been immoderate precocious jitters wrong Labour aft archetypal polls suggested little than expected turnout successful immoderate cardinal Labour areas, but successful the extremity helium won with a maority of nealry 276,000 votes.

But it was the nonaccomplishment of Conservative Andy Street successful the West Midlands that volition person dented egos wrong the Tory enactment aft helium fell by conscionable 1,500 votes to Labour's Richard Parker (pictured unneurotic below)

Sir Keir Starmer hailed it arsenic a 'phenomenal result' for Labour, fixed the spot of Street's idiosyncratic marque and popularity among plaything voters.

Good greeting and invited to MailOnline's sum of the UK section elections and absorption to the results.

It has been a chastening 48 hours for the Conservatives, losing cardinal mayoral races arsenic good arsenic hundreds of assembly seast crossed England.

The fallout is continuing and with much results acceptable to travel done today, kep your eyes peeled to our unrecorded blog for the latest updates.