The Labour and Conservative parties are digesting the results of England's local and Mayoral elections after Reform UK made major gains at their expense. With counting complete, Nigel Farage's party took control of 10 local councils,

A source says ministers will have to look at how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied in asylum cases.

Labour has lost a safe parliamentary seat to Reform in Runcorn and Helsby, and has Farage’s party breathing down its neck even in places like Doncaster and North Tyneside, where it won mayoralties by a whisker.