Labour MP slams ‘out of touch’ Starmer for ‘soul-destroying’ local election results

Rebecca Long-Bailey has criticised an “out of touch” Sir Keir Starmer as she described Labour’s local election results as “soul-destroying.” Speaking to the BBC on Friday (8 May), the Salford MP said that Labour has been “squeezed both from Reform and the Greens” and has lost several “really good” councillors and candidates as a result. “A lot of residents just felt that they couldn't vote for the Labour Party this time because of what we'd been doing nationally,” she said, adding that the prime minister has some re-evaluation to do. “He needs to realise that many of the slogans, the rhetoric, the decisions that have been made in recent months, have not landed well in our community.”