Local Elections 2021: Blue Tsunami - a podcast by Sam Rippon and Chern Han Mah

In this slightly extended final of a three-part series on the 2021 UK local and regional election results, Sam and Chern take a closer look at the results across England, as the Conservatives continued their assault on the former Red Wall, and romped to victory in the Hartlepool by-election. This episode also takes a look at the aftermath of the state election results in Tasmania in Australia, and the recent by-election result in Upper Hunter which ensured that Gladys Berejiklian retained parity in her New South Wales Assembly.

After gaining over 200 Councillors and 13 Councils, Boris Johnson's Conservative Party is riding high, and the Red Wall continues to crumble. Sam and Chern look at these results in closer detail and talk about what this could mean for British politics going forward, and the ongoing efforts of Sir Keir Starmer to revive the struggling Labour Party. Why was the margin of victory in Hartlepool so wide, and what could this mean for Labour fortunes in surrounding constituencies whenever the next election arrives? Was this evidence of a vaccine boost for the Johnson government, or is it a longer term trend? What went wrong for the Labour Party, and why did Sadiq Khan underperform versus expectations? It was also a good night for the Green Party across England - do they have realistic aspirations to surplant the Liberal Democrats as the UK's third party? All these questions and more answered in this week's episode.

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