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The Conservatives lose control of the county council, but no party won enough seats for a majority.

The party secured a 20-seat majority as the Conservatives and Labour faced significant losses.

Georgia Roberts
Political reporter, BBC Derby

Reform UK has now officially got a majority on Derbyshire County Council.

The casualties they’ve inflicted include Labour’s leader in Derbyshire and potentially the current Conservative leader of the council Barry Lewis, but there’s a recount it’s that close.

There’s a feeling here that Reform have managed to mobilise people that don’t normally turn out to vote in Derbyshire and this has helped them along to victory - turnout was higher than expectations.

But Conservatives here also say they don’t feel they could’ve fought against the strong sentiment for Reform and sympathy for their national policies.

Labour and the Conservative are equally hurting, but for Labour this is a particular blow.

A year ago they were expecting to take this council, riding high off the back of recent victories in district and borough councils and a clean sweep of Labour MPs in the general election.

One Labour figure here tells me the party now need to do some serious soul searching as to how things have gone “so wrong, so rapidly”.

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