The Prime Minister is wrong to claim that the local elections results indicate that the Tories will do better than expected at the next General Election, according to the chair of the Labour Party.
Anneliese Dodds told GB News: “This is an extraordinary thing for Rishi Sunak to be seeing. Actually, the very clear message from last week was that people desperately want the chance to turn the page on the last 14 years.
“They desperately want a General Election and rather than acknowledging that and actually setting a date, Rishi Sunak is anticipating about what he expects may happen.
“Well, actually, he's even got that wrong because local elections are not a good predictor of general elections.”
In a discussion with Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello, Dodds continued: “If you just look at the overall vote share, which is what he seems to have done, for example, very small parties tend to do far better in local elections, independents tend to do better.
“And if you look at the places where Labour won, where Labour picked up support, it was in those constituencies that Labour will need in order to deliver a majority Labour government.
“So I'm afraid Rishi Sunak has got this wrong…he should be listening to that message that, actually, give people the chance for change.”
She added: “We're aiming to ensure that we have a majority Labour government, not in coalition with any party.
“We believe we have a plan and a programme that would deliver that change that people desperately need that would get Britain building again, get our NHS back on its feet, get criminals off our streets and police on to them.
“Labour set out those plans and, as I mentioned, last Thursday, we saw that actually Labour's winning in those areas that we would need to be winning in, so that we can have a majority Labour government.”
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