Richard parker, narrowly beat the conservative� s Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary, mark harper, said while the results were disappointing, the General Election was still all to play for. But speaking to the bbc, Suella Braverman insisted her party here is this report from our correspondence, damian grammaticas. Its a result that will send a shudder through conservatives. The shudder through conservatives. Tie Conservative Shudder through conservatives. Tue Conservative Party candidate, 224082. , Conservative Party candidate, 224082. ,. , 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. I 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. Al 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. A tiny margin in a region of 2 Million People. One of the conservatives high profile metro mayors, andy street, toppled. The Labour Leader was there to celebrate. The message out of these elections the last elections now, the last stop before we go into that General Election is the country wants change. I hope the Prime Minister is listening and gives the opportunity to the country to vote as a whole in a General Election as soon as possible. Mr street said conservatives should not respond to defeat by shifting further right, but follow his moderate policies. The famous words i did it my way. And it was always going to be like that and, in the end, it wasnt quite enough, but i tell you what, it was bloody close pardon my language and no one would have expected that. To be clear, do you want rishi sunak to lead the conservatives into the General Election . Yes, it would be complete madness to have another moment of introspection. In total, labour won ten of the 11 mayoral races, including london a third term for sadiq khan. Labour also topped the results in the english Local Council elections, gaining more than 180 seats. Liberal democrats captured over 100, putting them into second place in the tally of total seats won. That pushed the conservatives, who lost more than 470 councillors, into third place a dire set of results for them and, with andy streets loss, deprived of a final consolation. Damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. Asi as i mentioned, the former home secretary, Suella Braverman, has been talking to the bbc this morning. She was on Laura Kuenssberg on sunday and she insisted her party faced electoral oblivion without a change in direction. We are, at this rate, you know, well be lucky to have any conservative mps at the next election, and we need to fight, and im not willing to give up. You know, it does me no favours to come here and say it how it is, to set out the difficult situation that we are in, but i owe that honesty to my colleagues, i owe that to you, and the british people who are crying out for a Conservative Party to vote for. Lets speak to now to the Acting Editor of the political news website conservative home, henry hill. Thank you forjoining us on bbc news. Miss brother men saying the plan is not working and needs to change, is that a view shared in the wider party. Suella braverman saying. Wider party. Suella braverman sa inc. , . , wider party. Suella braverman sa in. M. , wider party. Suella braverman saina. ,. , saying. Difficult to see what you do at this point. Saying. Difficult to see what you do at this point, six saying. Difficult to see what you do at this point, six months saying. Difficult to see what you do at this point, six months out saying. Difficult to see what you do at this point, six months out from | saying. Difficult to see what you do| at this point, six months out from a General Election with 14 years of government behind you. Its not clear what rishi sunak could do to change the course of events at this point, which is one of the reasons that the attempt to get rid of him, which so many people have been talking about if weeks of these results have been terrible hasnt happened, there isnt candidate and there isnt time. It is certainly there isnt time. It is certainly the case that the effort the Prime Minister has been making over the last year and a bit is clearly not working, the conservatives Pole Position has not only started closing with labour, it hasnt even stabilised. It is still trending downwards. There is deep cause for concern but tory mps i have spoken to are a little bit fatalistic about the upcoming election. They dont see there is all that much they can do at this point it turned things around. D0 do at this point it turned things around. , ~ ,. , do at this point it turned things around. I. ~ ,. ,. , around. Do you think they have a [an to around. Do you think they have a plan to try around. Do you think they have a plan to try and around. Do you think they have a plan to try and turn around. Do you think they have a plan to try and turn things around. Do you think they have a l plan to try and turn things around . At this point to turn things. Look, they will try something. They hope from people in Downing Street is that if you give it another six months, the Economic Situation will start improving and people will feel that in their wallets. If they have an election in november, there is an opportunity to have another so called fiscal events like the budget, Wherejeremy Hunt can deliver ideally some very well targeted tax cuts, spending interventions, and other policies, which might make voters think again about switching to labour. You have got to think about where the conservatives are, they have been in power in one form of an hour since 20 ten in one form or another. Any time you attack the status quo, any time you declare this or that is unacceptable and needs to change, understandably voters say you have beenin understandably voters say you have been in powerfor almost 15 years, why havent you done anything about it . Not all of that is a rishi sunak� s fault by any means but he is in an extreme difficult position where every time he really goes for something as a policy issue, he really says that is it, this is unacceptable, voters are going to ask why the conservatives havent done anything about this before. T5 done anything about this before. Is there anything positive they can take away from these results . There are a handful take away from these results . There are a handful of take away from these results . There are a handful of areas take away from these results . There are a handful of areas where take away from these results . There are a handful of areas where they are a handful of areas where they held on in individual councils and that maybe suggests that there are still places where a strong individual campaign can buck the national trend. Individual campaign can buck the nationaltrend. I individual campaign can buck the national trend. I know there are conservative mps who are really assiduous local campaigners who work really hard who are hoping that, actually, however bad the National Picture is, it may be that their work on the of their constituents will be enough to make the difference. 0bviously, will be enough to make the difference. Obviously, the Big Counterargument To that is andy street, who everyone agrees has been a very good mayor of the West Midlands and has worked very, very hard but was not able to overcome the drag factor of the state of the National Conservative brand. Theres a Silver Linings are few and far between. Andy street winning would have been the thing that allowed the conservatives to walk away from this may be having salvaged a bit of optimism. His failure to carry through as a way left them with no Silver Lining is at all particularly. Silver lining is at all particularly. Silver lining is at all articularl. , ~. , Silver Lining is at all articularl. ,. ,. , particularly. Thank you for oining us on bbc news. � efforts to secure a ceasefire in gaza and the release of israeli hostages are due to resume in cairo, after lengthy negotiations have so far failed to yield any breakthrough. One of the main sticking points appears to be whether the deal would be temporary or permanent, with hamas saying it would not accept any deal that did not explicitly include an end to the war in gaza. But in an interview with the bbc, an israeli minister said that even if all the hostages were released, they would not end the war in gaza, and the Operation On Rafah would still go ahead. Well play you that in a minute, but first, these images are of rafah, where israeli air strikes continue. Gazas Health Authority says more than 30 people have been killed there in the last 24 hours alone. In israel, Tens Of Thousand of protesters in tel aviv and jerusalem renewed calls for a hostage deal. Hundreds of people gathered in democracy square. Relatives of the hostages also gathered at a Military Base in the city to urge the Israeli Government to make a deal. Lets bring you that interview with israels minister for Diaspora Affairs and combating antisemitism. I began by asking him for insight from the israels governments point of view, on how the talks in cairo are going. So, the Terror Organisation of hamas is. Thinks that it can force the state of israel to stop the war or to escape from an operation in rafah to eliminate the five or four battalions that remain for the terror army of hamas. Thats not going to happen. We said clearly that we are going to eliminate hamas, and thats our obligations for the victims of october 7th and for the future generations of the citizens of israel, especially the residents of the region of Western Negev next to gaza. So are you saying even if all of the hostages were released, your operation in rafah would still go ahead . These are two separate issues. We have full commitment to do everything we can to bring back the hostages. This is our moral obligations. These people were abducted by hamas terrorists, and we will do everything to bring them back. But, on the same time, we cannot allow a situation that we have a Military Threat from a Terror Organisation from gaza strip whatsoever. 0ur Security Correspondent, frank gardner, is injerusalem, and gave us his assesment on the ongoing ceasfire negotiations. Where do we stand on the Ceasefire Deal right now . Hamas want an end to the fighting and a total israeli withdrawal. Now, of course, theres no guarantee that that isnt going to be a one sided ceasefire. In other words, they get israel to stop fighting and somewhere down the line they start lobbing rockets into israel again. That is a fear here in israel, that, you know, they commit to this deal only for the cycle of violence to start all over again. Israel wants its hostages out and it also wants to see the destruction of hamas. Now, those two are not necessarily completely compatible because hamas holds a key Bargaining Chip in the form of the roughly 90 plus hostages, who are thought to still be alive, held probably in tunnels somewhere in gaza, probably in rafah below ground. The protesters, the Tens Of Thousands of protesters, that we saw here last night in israel demanding a deal now, regardless of what your minister says, the vast majority of them, the overwhelming message from those protesters is stop delaying, make a deal now, get the hostages out. And the deal that is on the table is a 40 day pause in the fighting, release of roughly 33 israeli hostages, thats around a third of those thought to still be alive. And, in exchange, palestinians would be allowed to move north from where theyre currently concentrated in rafah. Theyd be allowed to move north back to their homes in gaza. And there would be a release of large numbers of palestinians from israeli jails. What israel wont currently commit to is an end to the fighting and the hardline right in the government here want to see an immediate or imminent assault on rafah. That is the district in Southern Gaza where hamass final battalions are thought to be holding out, and more particularly, yahya sinwar, who is the Military Leader of hamas, the architect of the october 7th massacre in southern israel, and the man who the israelis really want to get their hands on and to eliminate. So, the hardline right dont want this war to stop until that is done. They think anything else is unfinished business. But those protesting on the streets, notjust relatives, but people who think that the governments policy is wrong, that the last five months of assault on gaza has killed a large number of palestinians, destroyed a huge number of buildings, ruined lives, and failed to produce any hostages released they want a deal now. That is our Security Correspondent frank gardner. Now its time for a look at todays sport. Hello, thank you. We will start with football. Aston villa might have had a bad result in europe in midweek, but they could qualify for the European Champions League later. They are away at brighton in the premier league. If villa win and tottenham lose away at liverpool, they will guarantee themselves a top four finish. Spurs have lost their last three league games and fallen off the pace. Their manager Ange Postecoglou admits his side have a lot of work to do. We are a long way off but that doesnt we are a long way off but that doesnt mean we cant challenge next year. Doesnt mean we cant challenge next yeah i doesnt mean we cant challenge next yeah i dont doesnt mean we cant challenge next year. I dont know which other way to year. Idont know which other way to put year. I dont know which other way to put it year. I dont know which other way to put it in year. I dont know which other way to put it. In terms of the team i want to put it. In terms of the team i want us to put it. In terms of the team i want us to to put it. In terms of the team i want us to be, we are a fair way off, want us to be, we are a fair way off, but want us to be, we are a fair way off, but im want us to be, we are a fair way off, but im not dismissing the fact that we off, but im not dismissing the fact that we have to be competitive and have to that we have to be competitive and have to challenge for success every year im have to challenge for success every year im here. While villa hope to claim that final Champions League spot, liverpool have already qualified, and despite their late collapse in the title race, outgoing Managerjurgen Klopp says being back in europes elite Club Competition is still a big achievement. Going back to the start of the season, going back to the start of the season, nobody knew and everybody knew how season, nobody knew and everybody knew how important it would be to qualify knew how important it would be to qualify for knew how important it would be to qualify for the Champions League again qualify for the Champions League again its qualify for the Champions League again. Its what we did. Its super important again. Its what we did. Its super important for the future of the club and im important for the future of the club and im really happy about that. Carlo ancelotti says his side deserved to win the la liga title, which was confirmed after their rivals barcelona were beaten 4 2 by girona on saturday. Real beat cadiz 3 0 prior to that game, despite Ancelotti Chosing to heavily rotate the team around their Champions League semi final with bayern munich, semi final with bayern munich. You can see what it means to the supporters. The second leg of the semifinal is to come on wednesday. The real boss says hes looking forward to celebrating the league title with supporters. Translation we are very happy. To be honest, translation we are very happy. To be honest. We translation we are very happy. To be honest, we would translation we are very happy. To be honest, we would love translation we are very happy. To be honest, we would love to be honest, we would love to celebrate it with our fans but i think celebrate it with our fans but i think they understand we have a very important think they understand we have a very important challenge on wednesday. And we important challenge on wednesday. And we want to prepare very well, did give and we want