Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has reshuffled his shadow cabinet after his party's disappointing election results
Anneliese Dodds has been sacked as shadow chancellor, and replaced by Rachel Reeves
Labour's chief whip Nick Brown is replaced by Alan Campbell
Angela Rayner - who was sacked as the party's campaigns coordinator after the elections - will shadow Michael Gove
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she could introduce legislation for an independence referendum by next spring
A spokeswoman for Ms Sturgeon said that, in a phone call with Boris Johnson earlier, she "made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of "when - not if”
Downing Street said Prime Minister Boris Johnson "stressed how the coronavirus recovery will be more effective if both governments work together"
First Minister Mark Drakeford has said Welsh Labour will govern alone but will work with other parties on a "case-by-case basis"
Labour MP and former Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin has been elected West Yorkshire's mayor, triggering a by-election for her Westminster seat
The result of police and crime commissioners elections in England will be announced on Monday.
What does the SNP’s win mean for Scottish independence?
What does the SNP’s election win mean for Scottish independence?
And why has Keir Starmer sacked deputy leader Angela Rayner from her job as chair of the party?
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You may remember we mentioned a call between Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon earlier.
Well, in a statement released soon afterwards, a spokeswoman said Scotland's first minister told the PM the question around a fresh referendum on independence for the country was "when - not if".
Now Downing Street has released its own statement from the conversation.
A No 10 spokesman says Johnson congratulated Sturgeon on her success and reiterated an invite to the FM for a Covid recovery summit.
But he doesn't talk about a referendum, instead saying the two leaders "both agreed that their immediate focus should be and is on working together to build back from the pandemic".
The spokesman added: "The prime minister concluded [the call] by emphasising the importance of focusing on Covid recovery at this time.”
Oxfordshire County Council's result is in and it remains No Overall Control.
The Conservatives remain the largest party - but only by 1 seat, having lost 9.
Labour has also confirmed it is mounting a legal challenge after unexpectedly losing a seat in Banbury to the Conservatives.
Here are the final results (compared to the 2017 election):
Conservatives: 22 (-9)
Lib Dems: 21 (+8)
Labour: 15 (+1)
Green: 3 (+3)
Independent: 1 (-3)
Henley Residents Group: 1
The newest - and West Yorkshire's first ever - metro mayor has taken to Twitter to thank her supporters.
Tracy Brabin said she was "humbled and grateful for every single vote".
The Labour MP for Batley and Spen will now have to step down from her Westminster role.
But she tells her region she will "fight for every single resident".
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James Vincent
Political Editor BBC Look North
What a way to celebrate your birthday.
Tracy Brabin’s facemask at the count today was a map of West Yorkshire - she’s now in charge of quite a few things that will affect the lives of more than two million people living there.
Labour will no doubt be pleased that they’ve won - but they may be slightly disappointed not to get over the 50% line on the first preferences.
But in the end the Conservatives were 100k votes behind after the second preferences.
The big job starts now.
Tracy Brabin has been elected as the first mayor of West Yorkshire.
The Labour MP, who celebrates her 60th birthday today, won on second preference votes after recording 261,170 or 43.09% of first preference votes in the first count.
Newly elected West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin shares a celebratory elbow bump with Conservative rival Matthew Robinson.
Conservative Matthew Robinson came second. He gained 176,167 or 29.07% of first choice votes but could not catch the former Coronation Street actress.
Her success means she will resign her Westminster seat, triggering a by-election in Batley & Spen.
At the 2019 General Election she had a majority of 3,525.
Chris Mason
Political Correspondent
Image source, Getty ImagesCaroline Lucas and Sian Berry share a joke on the campaign trail
The joy of a buffet of elections is being able to graze on the details that emerge beyond the main headlines - the political afters while most people are gorging on the main course.
And one dish being served is the success of the Greens in Thursday's votes.
Or should I say, green parties.
Others are poring over the pivotal role the Scottish Greens are likely to play in the coming years in the Scottish Parliament, given they serve up Nicola Sturgeon with a majority in favour of another independence referendum, which the SNP didn't manage on its own.
But what about the Green Party of England and Wales?
No such power-broking for them on the national stage, but some fascinating trends to take a peek at.
Click here to read Chris's analysis in full, where he takes a look at the wins, the build in momentum and the fight for attention for this small but growing party.
The final results are in for Bristol City Council, and there have been big gains for the Greens.
They now boast 24 seats, winning an additional 13 from Thursday's election.
This puts them equal with Labour - also on 24 - who lost nine seats in total.
The Tories remain on 14 seats, while the Liberal Democrats are down to eight from 11.
On Friday, Labour's Marvin Rees was re-elected as the city's mayor after holding off a challenge from Green party candidate Sandy Hore-Ruthven.
Tracy Brabin says if she is elected as West Yorkshire's new mayor she would step down as MP for Batley and Spen which would spark a by-election
We are waiting for last two results in England's local elections
Meanwhile, the second count for a new elected mayor in West Yorkshire is under way.
It's between Labour's Tracy Brabin who after the first count had 261,170 or 43.09% of votes and Conservative Matt Robinson with 176,167 or 29.07%.
Former Coronation Street star Brabin, who became MP for Batley and Spen in 2016, said she would step down as an MP if she was elected as mayor.
This would trigger a by-election for the seat which she held with a reduced majority of 3,525 in the 2019 election.
With the final results in for the elections in Scotland and Wales, we are now just waiting to hear from a handful of counts in England's local elections.
And there should be a result in the next couple of hours for a new elected mayor in West Yorkshire.
Social distancing requirements in the counting halls mean it has taken longer for all the ballots to be totted up.
Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
Sir Keir Starmer's team have been holed up for hours today in the party leader's office in Westminster
There are some really big questions for Labour - but the most straight forward one of all right now is what exactly is going on?
The lights are still on in Sir Keir Starmer's office, but there is still no news about the reshuffle that was meant to happen today, with no names and no confirmed moves to show how his top team is going to look.
And there is still no clarity in exactly what happened in this dispute with his deputy, Angela Rayner.
You might wonder why that fuss matters at all...
Well, Labour had a hard time this week at those elections, even though they have got a new leader who has made a huge, huge effort to show how much he wants to change the party.
So this moment should have been a really clear chance for him to have a reset, to grab the party by the scruff of its neck and to get on with the changes he wants to make - even if that makes for some very difficult decisions.
But instead, he has found himself in this pretty confused picture - and perhaps a stand off with his deputy - with no clear message about who is even going to be sitting around his shadow cabinet table in the next few days.
It has also provided a vacuum into which his critics - particularly from the left of the party - have spent the whole day touring the broadcast studios, chucking in their tuppence worth, and suggesting he is taking the party in the wrong direction.
The party hopes to give the details of the top team tonight, but it has already been a long old day, with not much clarity about what is going on.
Dan O'Brien
Political reporter, BBC Wiltshire
The favourite to win the election of Wiltshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has been told he’s unable to take up the job, even if he wins Monday’s election count.
The Conservative candidate Jonathon Seed had a 30 year old conviction for drink driving which makes him ineligible for the job.
Conservative Party Headquarters told the BBC their Wiltshire candidate has been “disbarred from becoming the Police & Crime Commissioner.”
In this safe Conservative county, he was the standout favourite to win.
However, under electoral law the count must take place as planned tomorrow. If he is declared the winner, it’s likely a fresh election will be called.
We've got the full story here.
Quote MessageTo the best of my knowledge and belief when I applied for, and became the Police and Crime Commissioner candidate for the Conservative Party in Wiltshire and Swindon, I was an eligible candidate. I have declared my thirty-year-old driving conviction to the Party in my applications both to be a Parliamentary candidate and more recently a PCC candidate. Party officials confirmed my belief that my offence did not disqualify me. I have now been advised that this is not the case, and that I am disqualified as a PCC candidate. I have therefore withdrawn. I am bitterly disappointed that I will not be able to take up the post if I were to be elected.
Jonathon Seed, Wiltshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner candidate
Scotland's first minister has told Boris Johnson the question of a fresh independence referendum for the country is "when - not if".
Nicola Sturgeon spoke to the UK prime minister by phone earlier this afternoon following her election win on Thursday.
According to an SNP spokeswoman, the FM "made clear that her immediate focus was on steering the country through Covid and into recovery", and that she would work with the UK government "as far as possible on that aim".
But she also said that Ms Sturgeon had "reiterated her intention to ensure that the people of Scotland can choose our own future when the crisis is over".
And she "made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of when - not if”.
The final result in the elections for police and crime commissioners in Wales are:
PCCs work to ensure police forces are run effectively and replaced police authorities in 2012.
James Vincent
Political Editor BBC Look North
A big day, a big job, a big turnout?
We found out yesterday that 36% of people voted in the election for West Yorkshire's mayor. That means there are quite a lot of people who haven’t had their say.
But local election turnouts are always lower than those in a general election. This is the first time out for the idea of a mayor in West Yorkshire. When that happened in South Yorkshire in 2018 the turnout was 25%.
Greater Manchester and Liverpool had their second metro mayoral elections this week. Turnout in both places increased this time compared with 2017 but they were both still lower than West Yorkshire’s 36%.
It’s interesting to see the variations in turnout across West Yorkshire - 40% of people voted in Calderdale while the number in Wakefield was 30%.
There is still work to do on increasing turnout in general, but West Yorkshire has shown there is an appetite for someone to shout up on their behalf.
Labour's Tracy Brabin got the most first preference votes, but we now move to the second round...
The vote for the first metro mayor of West Yorkshire will go to second preference votes as none of the candidates reached 50% of all ballots cast.
Labour MP - and former Coronation Street actress - Tracy Brabin is leading the race at the moment, securing 261,170 votes.
Her nearest rival is Conservative Matt Robinson, who has won 176,167 votes.
The second preference votes are now being counted to determine a winner between the two leading candidates.
We will let you know the victor as soon as we do.
Image source, Getty ImagesAs we explained in our previous post, there are many steps that would need to be taken if there were to be a second independence referendum in Scotland.
And now, the Scottish Conservative leader has said Nicola Sturgeon's most senior legal adviser should stop her from bringing forward legislation in Holyrood to hold another independence vote.
Douglas Ross insisted it was not in Holyrood's power to pass a referendum bill, saying responsibility for constitutional issues was reserved to Westminster.
The Lord Advocate, who provides legal advice to the Scottish Government and is a member of the cabinet, should block any attempts to bring forward such legislation, Mr Ross said.
He spoke to journalists amid speculation that the UK Government may be forced to go to court to stop Ms Sturgeon's newly re-elected Scottish Government from holding another referendum.
Ms Sturgeon has already declared it is the "will of the country" that there should be another referendum, after Scots returned 64 SNP MSPs and eight Green MSPs - giving the pro-independence parties an overall majority at Holyrood.
But her Tory rival claimed he thought the SNP leader was "focusing her argument on a hypothetical court battle... to perhaps distract attention from the fact that she has now, on two occasions, failed to secure a majority government".
Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent
Image source, PA MediaScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants there to be a fresh referendum on Scottish independence - but Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not.
Various laws need to be passed in order to set up a referendum - the previous one in 2014 was underpinned by an agreement between the Scottish and UK governments to formally transfer powers to Holyrood.
If Johnson does not agree to do this again, Sturgeon's plan to break the deadlock is to skip the agreement and just pass a referendum bill at Holyrood - and dare the UK government to challenge the legislation in court.
Once a bill has been approved by a final vote of MSPs, there is a four-week wait before it gets Royal Assent and becomes law.
During that period, anyone can come forward with a challenge to the legitimacy of the legislation. So if the UK government believed MSPs were acting beyond Holyrood's powers, they could have law officers issue a challenge and argue the toss in the Supreme Court.
The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon is "back at work" after her party's win in Thursday's election.
Scotland's first minister posted the picture on Twitter as she begins the SNP's fourth consecutive term in power.
The party won 64 seats - one more than the last vote in 2016, but one short of a majority.
The Conservatives took 31 seats with Labour on 22, the Scottish Greens on eight and Liberal Democrats on four.
But there are still a few formalities to iron out.
MSPs will be sworn into the new parliament on Thursday morning and appoint a presiding officer and deputies.
Only after that can they elect the first minister, which is usually the leader of the biggest party in the Parliament, and that is expected to take place on Tuesday 18 May.
You can read more on the process here, external.
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