Labour faces ‘Starmergeddon’ fears with thousands of council seats at stake
A bruising night awaits UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Labour, with the expected scale of Thursday’s losses already spawning its own grim shorthand: "Starmergeddon".
The term captures both the depth of the setback forecast for Britain’s governing party and the pressure set to fall squarely on the prime minister.
Voters are choosing members of the devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales, as well as filling about 5,000 local authority seats across England, and Labour is widely expected to come away wounded.
The…