The Tories have taken control of Amber Valley from Labour, winning nine seats from their opponents.

Labour previously had a majority of two seats on the council in Derbyshire.

It leaves Amber Valley with 28 Conservative councillors, 16 Labour and one Green.

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While much of the focus has been on Scotland this morning, there are still a few more council results to come in from England.

Last night the Conservatives continued to sweep aside Labour in its traditional north-east heartland.

The party lost control of Durham County Council, which it has run since 1925, losing 15 seats as the Tories took 14.

It comes after the Tories won the Hartlepool by-election and got 73% of the vote in the Tees Valley mayoral election.

So far the Conservatives have gained control of 12 councils and Labour has lost control of seven.

You can read more about the results in England so far here.

Labour's Ian Murray has said his party would not support a bill for another referendum in Scotland, if one was brought forward by the SNP.

The shadow secretary of state for Scotland told Sky News earlier First Minister Nicola Sturgeon promised the election would be about the recovery from Covid and that should be the "sole focus".

Earlier SNP deputy leader Keith Brown was interviewed by Sky News' Sophy Ridge, and said his party would hold an independence referendum "at the earliest possible opportunity" it is safe to do so after the pandemic.

He told the programme: "It's a hostage to fortune to start putting a time limit on that.

"We will know when it's over, we will know when it's safe to have that full-blooded campaign that I've mentioned, but until that happens our concentration has to be focused on the pandemic, making sure that we drive down the coronavirus and look after the public health of the people in Scotland."

Asked whether he could guarantee a referendum by the end of 2024, he said: "The only caveat to that, of course, would be the pandemic, but, yes, that's our intention, to have that referendum."

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Sadiq Khan has been tweeting this morning fresh from his re-election as London mayor.

He's promising to work for "all Londoners", including those who didn't vote for him.

Much of the discussion on the Andrew Marr show focused on what would happen if the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence reached the courts.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would be "absurd" if it ever got to this point and this would mean the Conservatives were refusing to accept the democratic wishes of the Scottish people.

What are the results in my area?published at 11:17 British Summer Time 9 May 2021

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All seats have now been declared for the Welsh Senedd and Scottish Parliament - although we're still waiting for results for some English councils and police and crime commissioners, as well as the West Yorkshire mayoralty.

You can check who won in your area here.

Or we've also got the full results for Scotland, Wales and England so far.

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It's looking like Welsh Labour will go it alone and form a government without going in to a coalition with other parties.

It secured 30 seats in the Senedd elections - one short of an outright majority.

First Minister Mark Drakeford says Labour has successfully governed with this number of seats before.

But he says he is "open to working with any party where there is common ground".

He says he will look at things on a case by case basis in order to pass laws and get the party's spending plans through the Welsh Parliament.

Read more here.

Starmer reshuffle no surprise - but a high-wire actpublished at 10:57 British Summer Time 9 May 2021

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Iain Watson
Political correspondent

It’s no surprise that Sir Keir Starmer will be reshuffling his shadow cabinet.

But after a largely negative reaction last night to news that Angela Rayner was to lose her campaigning role, the task became urgent.

Sources say she will now be offered a “frontline” shadow cabinet role.

That may calm concerns of some on the left of the party that Ms Rayner was being marginalised – and that the party leadership was tacking right.

Reshuffles can strengthen leaders, but sometimes they can do the opposite.

Keir Starmer will want to reward “rising stars” with good media profiles such as shadow schools minister Wes Streeting.

But can he also bolster his team by bringing in “big beasts” such as Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn?

And will those facing demotion go quietly and accept other roles in the name of unity?

Westminster is awash with speculation that Jon Ashworth could be moved from his shadow health secretary role.

And that Annelise Dodds could be moved from her role shadowing Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

And there seems to be a view that Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy would be better suited to a domestic portfolio.

Overall, the aim is to have more identifiable faces on the frontbench who can increase the party’s impact.

But reshuffles create losers as well as winners - and conducting one in the wake of worse-than-expected election results is a high-wire act.

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While the Andrew Marr Show was on we've heard that Labour leader Keir Starmer is to carry out a reshuffle of his frontbench team later today, following the party's poor performance in English local elections.

He is facing criticism after the party's defeat in the Hartlepool by-election and losing control of several councils.

Starmer has already sacked his deputy Angela Rayner from her role as Labour's chair and campaigns co-ordinator.

Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said she had been made a "scapegoat".

Read more.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were among the guests on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show this morning.

Here were the main takeaways:

• Gove says the UK government will not take the issue of another Scottish independence referendum to court if the SNP pass legislation for one
• But he says the focus should be on the recovery from the pandemic
• Sturgeon says it would be "absurd" if the SNP were taken to court and this would amount to the UK government refusing to accept the democratic wishes of the Scottish people - but she does not believe this will happen
• She says the middle of a pandemic is not the time for another referendum - but she does not rule out legislation landing in the Scottish Parliament at the beginning of next year
• Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says his party is "back on the pitch again" in Scotland
• He says Angela Rayner will be offered a different position in the shadow cabinet, after losing her roles as party chair and campaigns co-ordinator
• Labour's shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, says Rayner has been "scapegoated" and the move was a "huge mistake" when Labour had seen mayoral successes earlier that day.

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Finally Sturgeon is asked if there is any chance of a personal rapprochement between herself and former SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond.

Sturgeon replies: "I don’t think Alex Salmond and I are going to go back to the way things were but there is nothing about what has happened around Alex Salmond in the last few years that gives me any pleasure whatsoever, it is a source of quite deep sadness to me."

Nicola Sturgeon says "of course" she will attend any summit organised by the PM about how to rebuild from coronavirus.

There are reports that Boris Johnson will call the devolved leaders later today.

Sturgeon says she will work with anybody in the interests of Covid recovery but Scotland's decisions long term are not dependent on what Boris Johnson does.

She wouldn't be drawn on a date for when people in Scotland can hug each other again but said she will have a meeting with officials on Tuesday to work out the next steps.

Nicola Sturgeon is asked about the timing of any future independence referendum and would it happen this year?

She says she will make a judgement based on the pandemic as we go through this year about when to hold one and said she "wouldn't rule out" legislation landing in the Scottish Parliament at the beginning of next year.

Her first task is to steer Scotland through the pandemic and then to focus on the kind of country Scotland wants to rebuild, she says.

Sturgeon is asked what would happen if the SNP did not win a court case for another referendum.

She says this would be "unprecedented territory", with the UK government refusing to accept Scottish democracy.

The first minister adds she doesn't believe this will happen but if it gets to that point, Scotland will be in a situation where it is being told it has not got "a democratic route to a referendum".

"The implications of that would be very grave," she adds.

She says this is a "fundamental issue of democracy" as there is a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament.

Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is next on The Andrew Marr show.

She is asked if she was reassured now that the UK government wouldn't take the SNP to court if it pushed for an independence referendum.

Sturgeon says it would be "absurd" if things ever got close to the point of taking the SNP to court because that would mean the Conservatives were refusing to accept the democratic wishes of the Scottish people.

She says the SNP has not taken legal advice about holding a referendum and the time to have one was not now while the country was in the middle of the pandemic.

Gove is asked whether England will see the ban on hugging lifted next week.

He says the prime minister will confirm tomorrow there will be a relaxation of restrictions from 17 May, with people able to meet indoors.

"It is also the case that intimate contact between friends and family is something that we want to see restored," he adds.

Asked whether mask wearing in schools will be scrapped he says the evidence on this is being reviewed and he won't pre-empt that judgement.

Michael Gove is asked on Marr about the recent reports that the prime minister said he would rather let "bodies pile high" than have a third lockdown.

Gove says he was in the room with the PM when they were debating the measures that would need to be taken.

He says he wouldn't normally comment but will address the points because locking your economy down is a major step.

The overwhelming evidence was the NHS would be overwhelmed if that step was not taken, he said, and the prime minister took part in the debate "soberly and seriously".

Michael Gove says the focus now has to be how politicians can work together to focus on recovery from the pandemic.

We all need to work together, he says, and we cannot afford for anyone "to take their eye off the ball by a protracted conversation about the constitution".

"We need to be laser focused on making sure the vaccination programme is a success and work on the recovery," he says.

The people of Scotland wants jobs and recovery, he adds, and not a government that wants to take people out of the UK.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is next up on Marr and is asked whether the UK government will take the matter to court if the Scottish Parliament passes legislation for another referendum on independence.

He replies "no", calling for all leaders to acknowledge that the priority should not be court cases or legislation but recovery from the pandemic.

“We should work together as Team UK” on the Covid recovery, he adds.