SIR – Despite Sir Keir Starmer’s dizzy rhetoric about seismic swings and new horizons for Labour (telegraph.co.uk, May 3), the turnout in the Blackpool South by-election was only 32 per cent.
The Conservatives are on track for their worst ever local election results. Labour has had a strong showing, taking control of a string of councils and gaining a new MP in the Blackpool South by-election. Counting in the London mayoral and assembly elections will not begin until Saturday morning.
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