Famously Margaret Thatcher’s ‘favourite’ local authority, Wandsworth has been in blue since 1978.
But the Tories are in for a fight to stop Labour as activists launched a massive doorstep campaign to win the council in the hope of delivering a crushing blow.
🔴HARTLEPOOL
Labour suffered a huge blow to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election last year.
However, at the time, the PM was performing well in the polls following a successful vaccine programme.
If the Tories lose any of their 13 seats it could show the national picture.
🔴AMBER VALLEY
The area’s council is firmly controlled by the Tories who have 28 seats to Labour’s 15, with 15 seats at play today.
If there is a big swing to Labour or the Tories, it could provide another indication of how the nation is feeling.
🔴BURY
Both party leaders have visited the North West town ahead of a nail-biting race.
All 51 seats on Bury Council are up for grabs in an area which has some of the most marginal parliamentary seats.
The council is run by Labour who have 28 seats to the Tories’ 23.
🔴GLASGOW
Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are fighting hard to stop Labour winning back Glasgow.
A loss could show her grip on Scotland is weakening and damage her push for a second independence referendum.
There are 85 seats up for grabs in the historically Labour city.
🔴WOKINGHAM
This Berkshire town is part of the Conservative’s southern heartlands.
But the Tories are having to fend off a campaign blitz from the Liberal Democrats, whose leader Sir Ed Davey has been hammering them over law-breaking in No 10.
🔴BOLTON
Bolton has form for backing the winner in general elections and is seen as another temperature check for how Labour and the Tories are performing.
The town’s council couldn’t be tighter, with the Tories holding 20 seats to Labour’s 19.
Everything is to play for in this race.
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But the birth of their first child was almost overshadowed by Adam’s blunder.
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Tom died at the age of 33 after suffering from a brain tumour, having been diagnosed with cancer two years previously.
The news was confirmed on social media by his wife, who shares two-year-old daughter Aurelia and one-year-old son Bodhi with Tom.
Now, Kelsey has opened up on her conversations with her late husband and revealed they 'didn’t really talk about death.'
Appearing on Friday’s episode of Loose Women, she said: ‘We never went there. I know he had terminal cancer, but this actually came as a massive shock to us.'
The Tories lost the flagship Wandsworth Council to Labour having held it for the first time since 1978 in a major symbolic blow.
Labour has also seized the north London stronghold of Barnet, which was held by the Conservative Party for 20 years.
They also lost Southampton to Labour and West Oxfordshire and Worcester to no overall control.
Dozens of Tory councillors have lost their seats amid public anger over lockdown-busting parties in No 10 and the cost-of-living crisis gripping the country.
Maria Gomes dos Reis's remarkable age went unnoticed for decades until paramedics visited the great-great-grandmother in rural Bom Jesus da Lapa after she fell ill.
The allegedly 121-year-old, who lives with her granddaughter, has a birth certificate which says she was born in the village of Bela Vista – where she still lives to this day.
It adds that she was born on June 16, 1900 – six months after the end of the 1800s.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have both been fined over the Downing Street party scandal. trib.al/q7pcmiV
It comes after the Met Police said they had issued over 50 fixed penalty notices regarding rule-breaking events in Whitehall during the pandemic.
The Met hasn’t named the individuals who have been fined, but Downing Street has confirmed the country’s two most senior politicians have been informed they are to receive an FPN.