Scottish and Welsh nationalism will be further radicalised if Reform UK sets the tone of debate over inclusion in the British state
Keir Starmer has neither a heartland nor a stronghold. That is the picture likely to emerge once all the votes in this week’s local and devolved elections have been counted.
Council seats in Labour’s traditional northern-English working-class base will fall to Reform UK. Parts of inner London, where the electoral map has been red for decades, will go Green.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
