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Eugene

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2. Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1,300 councillors

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Fri May 3, 2019, 03:39 PM

May 2019

Source: BBC

Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1,300 councillors

3 May 2019

The Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to "get on" with Brexit.

Labour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.

But the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received "a vote for stopping Brexit".

The Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.

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