REUTERS, London

Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday vowed to fight on to deliver on his promise to bring “change” to Britain after his Labour Party suffered heavy losses in local elections that deepened doubts over his ability to govern.

Just under two years after winning a landslide national election, Starmer saw voters punish his Labour government, dealing it a blow in some of its traditional strongholds in former industrial regions in central and northern England.

The main beneficiary was the populist, anti-immigrant Reform UK party led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 350 council seats in England. It could also emerge as the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Some

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