Fallen Labour councillors try to explain their defeat

00:00 Cici Manwa lost her seat on Thurrock council to Reform UK 02:19 Caller Steve lost his seat in Wakefield to... Reform UK Lewis Goodall hears from felled Labour councillors - 'cannon fodder' in Starmer's popularity battle - who try to make sense of what happened in Thursday's local elections. Sir Keir Starmer's party has lost more than 1,200 seats, more than half of those it was defending in these elections, and lost 37 councils. Labour MP Catherine West said if a cabinet minister does not challenge Sir Keir as party leader by Monday she will throw her hat in the ring. Ms West, the Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet said she would rather a frontbencher launch a bid to avoid a leadership contest, but is warning she is ready to put her hat in the ring. “What I’d really like to see is not a leadership election, but for them to come together and appoint somebody amongst them, who can lead us and give us a vision of how we’re going to defeat Nigel Farage and the right wing in the coming general election, which could be as soon as possible,” she said Ms West issued a two-day deadline to the cabinet and warned if she fails to hear back by Monday she will ask Labour MPs to back her and trigger a leadership election. Listen to the full show on the all-new LBC App: https://app.af.lbc.co.uk/btnc/thenewlbcapp #lewisgoodall #ukpolitics #LBC LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK. Join in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/ Sign up to LBC’s weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signup