is already well down on where it was even in 2010. i think the conservative party does need to not. it can t afford to just write that off and say, well, london is a labour city. it needs to have a real reckoning with why this party this party of government is so unappealing to sort of eight million voters in this country s capital. we now have three labour mps, and a labour council! cheering. victory, then, for labour whojust happened to have the posters on hand. karl mercer, bbc london. let s go to wandsworth now and speak to susana mendonca. how big a deal is it for the tories to lose wandsworth? this is a massive loss for the conservatives. this was a flagship tory borough, they held it for more than 40 years and lost it to labour and labour won with a comfortable majority, got 35 seats, conservatives on 22, one independent. the mayor of london was here saying that this show boris johnson is now a vote winner for the labour party. the conservatives here are reluctant to bla
but they will hope they will do enough tonight to hold control of this council. there is one ward that will not be counted this evening because it has been postponed because it has been postponed because the eucalypt candidate died after nominations had closed. that will be counted at a later date and they may have to rely on that to hold control. hold control. good to have that early intelligence hold control. good to have that early intelligence from - hold control. good to have that - early intelligence from sunderland, richard moss at the count. with its low council tax, wandsworth has been a flagship tory borough since 1978. in 1990, the conservative party chairman, kenneth baker, famously dismissed a poor local election performance by singling out what happened in wandsworth. he used ones worth as a count of symbol for success where there hadn t been a lot of success elsewhere. i remember it well. i was there!
A personal account covering 20 years of working class history in Notting Hill, including the Carnival, the 1987 riot and the conflicts on All Saints Road. Published by BM Blob in the spring of 1988.