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By Ashley Cowburn & Lizzy Buchan Rishi Sunak is facing a reckoning at the polls as all 40million voters in England and Wales deliver their verdict in local elections. The under-fire PM has been warned he faces losing up to half of the council seats the Tories are defending in England. Elections took place in more than 2,600 council seats across 107 local authorities – alongside key mayoral battles, and police and crime commissioner elections. Results are expected to come throughout Friday and Saturday. Labour seized the parliamentary constituency of Blackpool South from the Tories overnight wi…

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