Local elections 2023: We need to reflect and do more, says Lucy Frazer after Tory losses

The authorities needs to bespeak and bash more, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has said pursuing bruising losses for her enactment successful section elections successful England.

Some Conservatives person blamed Rishi Sunak aft the enactment mislaid much than 1,000 councillors successful Thursday's vote.

But, speaking to the BBC, Ms Frazer said that, contempt a hard commencement to the Tories' campaign, voters "were opening to springiness Rishi Sunak credit".

Labour's Wes Streeting said the "best is yet to come" for his party.

Speaking to the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, the shadiness wellness caput said helium was "confident" Labour would signifier the adjacent government.

The enactment won power of 22 councils including important battlegrounds specified arsenic Medway, Swindon, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, and East Staffordshire.

Pressed connected whether the enactment had made capable advancement to signifier the adjacent government, Mr Streeting argued radical who voted for tiny parties successful these section elections, would power to Labour successful the adjacent wide election, expected successful 2024.

He did not regularisation retired forming a conjugation with the Liberal Democrats, saying Labour was "just not successful the shot parkland of talking astir conjugation governments".

Speaking to the aforesaid programme, Liberal Democrat person Sir Ed Davey - who besides enjoyed a affirmative acceptable of results connected Thursday - ruled retired going into a conjugation with the Conservatives, but refused to bash the aforesaid for Labour.

He said it was a "hypothetical question" adding that helium would not "take the voters for granted".

Asked if the authorities would alteration pursuing the party's mediocre performance, Ms Frazer said: "We perfectly request to reflect."

She argued the results needed to beryllium seen successful the discourse of the pandemic and the warfare successful Ukraine, which she said had affected the outgo of surviving crisis.

She besides said Rishi Sunak had lone been premier curate for six months and "when radical spot america delivering past we volition regain the spot of the British people."

"We request to bash more, we request to deliver, we are delivering."