It's nothing new for a governing party to go backwards in local elections, but the extent to which voters have turned on Labour is quite something.

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Sir Keir Starmer's record unpopularity has made the party electoral poison. The only question now is how long he survives.

But the results we’ve had so far aren’t just about the electorate’s discontent with the government. For at least a decade now, the British people have been voting for a change that has never come. Ever since the financial crash of 2008, living standards have fallen while prices have soared. As a result, since 2015 voters have taken every available opportunity to vent their fury.

The Brexit referendum in 2016 was a rebellion against the status quo. Jeremy Corbyn’s surprise over-performance in 2017 was two........

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