Over to Wales, and we have had a few announcements on police and crime commissioners (PCCs).

Dafydd Llywelyn from Plaid Cymru has been re-elected to represent Dyfed-Powys, while Labour's Jeff Cuthbert has been re-elected as Gwent's PCC.

But the first change in hands has been in North Wales, where Labour's Andy Dunbobbin has taken the post.

He won with 98,034 votes compared to 90,149 for his Conservative rival Pat Astbury.

The previous commissioner, Plaid Cymru's Arfon Jones, decided not to stand again.

We will be getting a lot more of these results on Monday, but you can see all the PCCs confirmed so far by clicking here for Wales and here for England.

And if you feel you need a recap: What does a police and crime commissioner do?

Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, Kim Johnson, has accused party leader Sir Keir Starmer of having “form in terms of throwing northern working class women under the bus”.

Ms Johnson said that the sacking of Angela Rayner from her campaign roles was “unacceptable” and “smacks of cowardly behaviour”, and will “resonate badly with our communities”.

Speaking to BBC North West Tonight, she added: “[Keir Starmer] does have form in terms of throwing northern working class women under the bus… he did the same for Rebecca Long Bailey. This is not the right time to be taking this stance. He is talking about unifying the party…. It is not unifying the party.”

Ms Johnson called on the Labour leader to visit her city, the north west of England, and Wales, and learn from their “resounding success - and that is because we have policy and strategy”.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

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It is the usual arc after a set of elections - the jubilant party celebrates, disappears, and no doubt has a glass of something bubbly, and the wounded one begins some pretty public introspection.

That is exactly what we are getting within the Labour Party at the moment.

I have just been for a skulk around Westminster to see if I could bring you the latest on this anticipated reshuffle, but... no sign of any of the Labour leadership yet.

However, it looks like we could get something soon, not least because the leadership needs to clear up what on Earth was going on around Angela Rayner.

The deputy leader can't be sacked from that role as it is directly elected by the membership, but the other responsibilities she had been given by Sir Keir Starmer, particularly around campaigning, seem to have been taken away.

Now, there are those who have been out and about for Labour today, insisting that is has all been a bit of a mix up and that she will still be a senior figure and have a prominent role in the shadow cabinet.

But there has been no clarification yet from Sir Keir Starmer.

And at the same time, all sorts of bloodletting and introspection and anger and commentary is happening in public.

Some on the left - who are loyal to former leader Jeremy Corbyn - are making suggestions on a variation of "I told you so", while plenty of others in Labour are asking of how they bounce back from this and overcome the massive hurdles that stand between where they are now and a general election.

So, a huge number of very difficult questions for the Labour Party to wrestle with, and the prospect of some answers - on personnel at least - in the next couple of hours.

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If you are a bit nerdy like us and spending a lot of time on Twitter as the results roll in, you will have seen a wave of excitement over the result in Chipping Norton.

Labour has taken the seat on Oxfordshire County Council from the Conservatives - but why is it so significant?

Well, the area around the town has become renowned as home to a raft of right-leaning politicians, celebrities and media types.

The so-called "Chipping Norton set" includes the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Elisabeth Murdoch and even former Tory PM David Cameron.

So, some have found its swap from blue to red amusing to say the least...

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

The SNP are on course for 19 years in power. The next Scottish parliament will have the joint largest pro-independence block ever.

But Scotland is still split on the issue of independence.

If you dig into the numbers, the percentage backing unionist and independence parties is almost split down the middle.

Polls on independence paint a similar picture.

And the truth is, Nicola Sturgeon still needs to work out some of the answers to big questions about what independence would mean, after the economic turbulence of the past year and with the complications of Brexit.

She’s back in her office and insisting that won’t be the priority for a while.

Don’t expect frantic activity in the next few months.

But the election result means independence will be high on the political agenda in the coming years.

Today the battle lines have been drawn.

The Conservative leader of Worthing Borough Council has called on the government to "look at the South East", saying it is not a region of constituencies his party can "take for granted".

Councillor Dan Humphreys tells BBC South Today there had been a net loss of seats in south-east England. Although the Tories held on to their majority in Worthing, it was reduced to a margin of just one, with Labour gaining five seats.

“Down here in Sussex were being asked to build tens of thousands of houses in very challenging circumstances and the levelling up agenda is very much focused on spending money in the north [of England]," he says.

"So if you’re a voter in the north of England, that’s all going to sound great, but you can’t be surprised that voters in the south east of England are going to hear we’re going to be spending all that money elsewhere and think ‘I’m not so sure about that’.”

The leader of the Liberal Democrats is back on Twitter celebrating a win.

The party has taken control of St Albans Council - previously under no overall control - for the first time in 10 years.

Sir Ed Davey calls it a "brilliant win", claiming it confirms the Lib Dems are "the only party who can beat the Tories in large parts of the country".

More English council results coming in and this time it is a hit for the Tories.

The Conservative leader of Oxfordshire County Council has lost his seat to the Liberal Democrats.

Ian Hudspeth has led the authority since May 2012, although his party have just been short of the mark to have overall control.

But now that control looks even further out of reach, with the Tories losing three seats to the Lib Dems so far.

About half the seats are still to declare though...

The Conservatives have narrowly held on to Worthing Borough Council.

They retained their majority - but with a significantly reduced margin of just one.

Labour gained five seats from the Conservatives this time round.

But the Tories have the 19 seats needed to control the the 37-seat borough council in West Sussex.

Welsh Labour housing minister, Julie James, has been talking to BBC Politics Wales.

She was asked about Boris Johnson's proposal to have a "Team UK" summit and approach to coronavirus.

Ms James says: "I hope very much that it's real. We would welcome it if it was.

"We've been calling for many, many years for a proper constitutional summit, where we talk properly about the role of devolution across the UK, in a United Kingdom.

She said the elections demonstrated that where devolution exists, there is a "clear appetite for it".

Anas Sarwar, the Labour leader in Scotland, has also been on Radio 4.

He says his "plea to colleagues in England" is to learn the lessons from Scottish Labour's landslide defeat to the SNP in the general election of 2015, saying "don't repeat the same mistakes".

"Big constitutional decisions that force people to pick a side in binary choices do cause difficulties for a Labour Party that is not naturally keen on talking about identity," he adds.

He says the way to rebuild is through "honesty. energy, ideas and ideas but ultimately there is no quick political fix".

Former Conservative Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, has been talking to Radio 4's The World This Weekend.

He says people want to see the governments within the UK working together and they don't want conflict.

Asked if the election results mean Scotland does not want to be governed by Boris Johnson, he says he does not accept that premise because people voted to stay in the union in a referendum in 2014.

He says it is not within the gift of the Scottish government to try to hold another independence referendum.

The Conservatives need to be "much more passionate" about why it is good for Scotland to remain in the union, Mundell adds.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

We're still awaiting Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Labour sources say Angela Rayner will get a prominent post.

But her allies insist she wasn’t offered a new role yesterday - instead she was told she was to be stripped of her campaigning responsibilities, with no alternative job offer.

She had been planning to appear on the media today to defend Sir Keir’s leadership, after worse than expected election results.

Her absence from the airwaves, they say, demonstrates that any move was not done with her consent.

This creates a moment of jeopardy for Sir Keir.

One of his first acts as Labour leader was to sack Jon Trickett from the shadow cabinet.

He has now said a leadership challenge can’t be ruled out, external.

Starmer's task in the reshuffle is to assemble a loyal and impactful top team, without further stoking divisions.

These may prove to be mutually exclusive objectives.

The SNP's Jeane Freeman, who serves as the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health, has been talking to Radio 4.

She denies her party's failure to get a majority in the elections to the Scottish Parliament takes the shine off its victory.

Freeman says the electoral system is different in Scotland, so "the idea you can get a majority in a system designed not to do that is a big ask".

She says the SNP has a "moral authority based on those results" for the Scottish Parliament to decide if and when it wants to hold an independence referendum.

The Liberal Democrats have won control of the council in St Albans - where Daisy Cooper was elected MP for the party in 2019.

The council was previously under no overall control, with the Liberal Democrats and Conservative both holding 24 of the 58 seats.

But the Lib Dems won five seats, with the Tories losing one and Labour three, and now have 30 - enough for a majority.

MP Cooper tweeted that it was amazing, external and she was "super proud".

Earlier we heard from Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove who said politicians should focus on working together to recover from the pandemic.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr people want to see governments co-operating.

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Labour leader Keir Starmer needs to "up his game" to provide a vision that can be articulated on the doorstep, MP Clive Lewis has said.

The MP for Norwich South, who was a shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, tells the BBC's Politics East: "In these elections we went in naked.

"I understand it's been a tough year but that's not an excuse not to have a vision and some policy ideas and direction and it simply wasn't there."

Labour is facing criticism after losing the Hartlepool by-election - once considered a stronghold for the party - and control of several councils.

Radio 4's Broadcasting House has spoken to Professor Ciaran Martin, one of the architects of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

He says the UK government is left in a "dangerous" position by the SNP winning a fourth term.

We live in a union of consent, he adds, but "there are absolutely no rules, conventions or accepted understanding as to how that consent is ever again to be exercised".

“That’s the dangerous thing for the union - whatever else happens hundreds of thousands of Scots wish to pursue independence lawfully, peacefully and democratically but there is no mechanism for them to do that at the moment, according to the UK government, which is the constitutional source of authority for the United Kingdom as a whole," he says.

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

The new law-making cycle, which begins with the Queen's Speech on Tuesday, will be the last full one before the next general election.

So, from the point of view of the government, the main point of the next 12 to 14 months will be to lay the foundation of the Conservative offer for the next election, which many of the party's MPs now expect in 2023.

This may not be easy, because while some predict a strong economic bounce back, the hangover of the pandemic will be painful for many people and industries, as the first moves to pay off the extra borrowing, the removal of the Universal Credit boost, furlough and the suspension of evictions begin to bite.

The issue of independence will continue to loom over politics, and there will also be the legacy of Brexit to address - particularly in Northern Ireland.

So what will the government be offering in its new programme? A number of measures have been telegraphed including reform of social care in England and cracking down on online harms.

You can read more details here of what is likely to be in the Queen's Speech.

Among the results still to come in from councils in England is Bristol where every seat is up for re-election, meaning large changes could be possible. Labour was previously one seat off a majority but the Green Party has been expected to do well.

The Lib Dems will be hoping to take control of St Albans, where they are currently sharing control with the Conservatives, but won the Westminster seat in 2019.

The Conservatives would need to gain five seats to take control of Oxfordshire County Council, which is also expected to declare later today.

The results of the contest for the newly created role of West Yorkshire mayor will also be announced, along with four police and crime commissioner elections in Wales.

You can see the full results for England so far here.