Labour to launch ‘on your side’ local elections battle

Labour campaign launch will capitalise on cost of living crisis and Partygate backlash

Labour will launch its local elections battle with the slogan On your side", urging voters to send the Conservatives a message about the pain of the cost of living crisis and No 10 lockdown breaches.

Keir Starmer will launch the party's campaign in Bury, a symbolic location where one local MP, Christian Wakeford, defected from the Tories to Labour over Boris Johnson's behaviour during the Partygate investigation.