Local elections: 'Pray for the winners and the losers'

Millions of voters are going to the polls to pick their representatives in the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Senedd, and in a third of English local councils' seats, including all of London.

Reform and the Greens (and, I might say, hopefully, the Lib Dems!) are expected to pick up lots of council seats, whilst the still-unpopular Conservatives are bracing for losses.

But Labour is facing something like an electoral Armageddon, with voters punishing the party for 20 months of government that – trying to keep my neutral hat on – does seem to have been at best disappointing, and perhaps shambolic and chaotic at worst.