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This is obviously terrible news for Keir Starmer's Labour Party
because they 'll be losing votes both to the right and to the left.
No, I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos.
I think what was clear was he was quite bullish.
There's no sense at the moment that he's going to roll over.
I think you can't underestimate the reform machine.
So it's a big, big day.
The Greens, this really symbolic victory.
Two-party politics is not just dying.
It is dead and it is buried.
Nigel Farage has hailed a historic shift in British politics as his Reform UK party wins big in the local elections.
And despite huge losses for Labour, the Prime Minister insists he's not going anywhere.
From the Guardian's Today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoff.
Well, I'm joined by Alexandra Topping, our political correspondent.