We have entered a quiet by-election spell with just two council seats available this week and one next week. This week it was a Tory defence in Nottinghamshire and a Labour defence in their bourgeois heartland of north London.
The Tories held in Broxtowe, by the narrowest of margins over newcomers Reform - just five votes in it. There was a big swing to Reform from both Labour and the Conservatives.
In London, very close to Keir Starmer's own constituency, Labour were humiliated by the Lib Dems. Labour finished a distant second with less than half the votes of the winning candidate. West Hampstead's MP is Tulip Siddiq, a close friend of the Starmers and currently on trial in Bangladesh on corruption charges (in abstentia)...
Nuthall East & Strelley, Broxtowe Borough Council
Con: 405 (28.6%) -16.5%
Ref: 400 (28.3%) New
Ind: 275 (19.4%) New
Lab: 244 (17.2%) -20.1%
Grn: 71 (4.9%) -6.7%
Ind: 20 (1.5%) New
Con HOLD
West Hampstead, Camden London Borough Council
LDm: 1,176 (54.4%) +15.4%
Lab: 458 (21.2%) -23.4%
Con: 222 (10.3%) -6.3%
Ref: 155 (7.2%) New
Grn: 152 (7.0%) New
LDm GAIN from Lab
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