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10:10 TSSA: ‘We will work with other unions to oust Starmer’

General secretary of the Labour-affiliated TSSA Maryam Eslamdoust has repeated her calls for new leadership for the Labour Party – and said she would work with other trade unions to oust Keir Starmer.

She said: “Unions like the TSSA will not stand by in the wake of this electoral disaster and let Keir Starmer pave the way for a hard right government led by Nigel Farage.

“Joe Biden did exactly that in the US, and it’s clear from these results that we’re facing a similar catastrophe unless Labour changes leadership and direction. The TSSA will now seek to work with other unions to assert our political influence at all levels of the Labour Party to try to deliver that.

“At the last general election, the country didn’t vote simply to repaint the front bench red. People voted for meaningful change they could actually feel in their lives.

“That’s why Labour urgently needs a leadership election to allow members to pick a candidate who is much more responsive to the needs of working people and who can stop the very real danger of a far right government coming to power in this country.”

09:55 Reports of low turnout for Holyrood elections

The Herald reports that in some constituencies in Scotland some older voters have reported feeling so apathetic with politics that they have not bothered voting – which party that might hurt the most, we’ll have to wait and see…

09:40 Watch – Keir Starmer’s response to election results so far

These are tough results for Labour. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’ve lost brilliant Labour representatives who’ve stood up for their communities.

People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough. We haven’t offered enough hope or optimism for the future.

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— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 8, 2026

09:00 Counting underway

Counting is underway for the Scottish Parliament elections, where Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is seeking to stop the SNP from securing a third decade in power in Holyrood.

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