Sir Keir and Mr Parker celebrated at the Birmingham International Conference Center Photo: Jacob King
Mr Sunak said, that it was “disappointing.” lose the West Midlands but vowed to “take on Labour” with Sir Keir calling the result “phenomenal” and “exceeding our expectations”. Mr Street said he had been “honoured to serve and lead this place for the last seven years”.
The West Midlands poll result was delayed for several hours on Saturday evening due to demands for a recount. because the result remained sharp throughout the day.
While “batch checks” were initially seen as a “soft” measure, the recount – which involves sifting through stacks of votes to look for any anomalies – took place. A full recount was then ordered in Coventry, further delaying the results.
Richard Parker speaks after his The winner of the West Midlands mayoral election has been announced. Photo: Jacob King/PA
Ahmed Yacoub, a pro-Palestinian independent candidate, won almost 20 percent of the vote in Birmingham, eating away at Labour's share.
Across the country, support for the Labor Party has fallen sharply in areas with high Muslim populations, The Telegraph analysis found.
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But Reform UK's votes were more important in changing Labour's results, with the party's vote share exceeding the difference between the two candidates.
James Cleverley, the Home Secretary, admitted the local election results were “tight” and there was “no point in pretending otherwise”. Speaking to The Telegraph, he said voters who had “gravitated away” from the Tories would “come back to us” by the general election.
He said Labor was trying to “infiltrate” Downing Street. without explaining what they will do when they get there, saying their plans for an amnesty for illegal immigration would be a “disaster” and a “massive invitation card” for people smugglers.
Mr Sunak will try this week to take the front line again with a series of announcements on getting people back to work, cracking down on anti-Semitic hate speech and continuing the deportation of migrants to Rwanda.
He will unveil new plans to help people with mental health problems stay on the job, and ahead of the July NATO summit he will urge allies to increase defense spending.
Plans to move against Mr Sunak collapsed on Friday when Tory rebels said the rebellion was all but over by Saturday evening. “It’s over, it’s over,” said one. “Rishi is going to hold out until the elections. One of the reasons we are laying down our arms is because he has no one to blame but himself for the election results.”
Sir Simon Clarke, a former Cabinet minister, told a Conservative WhatsApp group on Saturday evening. the results were “horrible” and “should be a wake-up call.”
Writing in The Telegraph, Richard Holden, chairman of the Conservative Party, called on MPs to stop “shooting from the sidelines” and “stand by our Prime Minister.”
In London, Mr Khan continued to resist net-zero emissions policies after being re-elected as mayor for a third term.
In a hint that he would not abandon his controversial Ulez expansion, in his victory speech he said London had “already made great strides in cleaning up our air” and vowed to “continue to tackle pollution” whether ” it's in our streets or our rivers.”
The Labor mayor received 1,088,225 votes (43.8 per cent), almost 276,000 more than Ms Hall, who received 812,397 votes ( 32.7 percent). The result represents a shift towards Labor of 3.2%.
Ms Hall won the outer London boroughs of Havering and Redbridge, Croydon and Sutton, Bexley and Bromley, Ealing and Hillingdon, and Brent and Harrow.
In Brent and Harrow she managed to move away from the Labor Party by 1 .2% – a result likely to reflect her experience as leader of Harrow council and dissatisfaction with Mr Khan's expansion of the Ulez scheme last August.
Mr Khan's comfortable victory sparked mutual recriminations over the way the Tories approached candidate selection and the election campaign, with one Conservative MP saying the Conservative Party's campaign had been so bad that they had “essentially gifted” the mayor's office to him.
“The campaign was all about 'keep mentioning Sadiq Khan and just saying he's inadequate',” he said. “You can't sit there and wallow in the mud and just throw things at the mayor… you need to come up with a positive vision.”
But a campaign source said Ms Hall was “very proud” of the result because she had “defied expectations in many ways”, adding: “Look at the party's national polling in London, it's about 16 per cent, and look to Susan's voice. the vote share was 32 percent.
One of Ms. Hall's main promises was to reverse Mr. Khan Ulez's expansion if elected. A source said: “If you go into the outlying areas the turnout will increase – and that's down to Ulez, no doubt. If Sadik thinks that Ulez was accepted, then this is not so. He should give it up.”
In Manchester, Andy Burham was elected mayor for a second term in a landslide victory, vowing to be “candid” with Sir Keir. He told Sky: “I would definitely point out if there was something wrong – I wouldn't hold back on that.”
Tracey Brabin retained her West Yorkshire mayorship for Labor with just over half the votes.
Labour won three of the eight Police and Crime Commissioner elections called on Saturday , after receiving nine votes. Conservative PCC on Friday and holding five. There are now 17 PACs in the party, the same number as the Tories, but two results are still to be announced on Sunday.
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