Lucy Frazer – ‘Rishi’s only been the prime minister for six months’
This week the fallout from the local election results mingled with news of the coronation. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer spoke to Laura Kuenssberg about the Conservatives’ disastrous results, claiming her party just needed to deliver on their promises. But Kuenssberg questioned whether they might need to reflect more deeply, given they lost more seats than even their worst-case scenarios predicted:
Streeting – ‘Keir Started could be on his way to Downing Street… and the talking points would still be “Labour could have done better“‘
After Labour’s strong results, Wes Streeting claimed they were ‘confident but not complacent’ that they could win a general election. Laura Kuenssberg pointed out that the local election results were positive, but actually did not suggest Labour could get a majority. Streeting argued that local elections were not an accurate prediction, and that many places where people had voted for smaller parties would be Labour in a general election:
‘The focus is getting rid of Conservative MPs’
The Liberal Democrats also performed very well in the local elections, surpassing their own expectations.
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